Pete Buttigieg for State Treasurer

We endorse Pete Buttigieg for Indiana State Treasurer. He was educated at Harvard before he attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar to study economics. Buttigieg has a wide range of experience, from work as a businessman to a pastiche of areas including “economic development, retail strategy, energy and logistics.”

But it isn’t just his strong background that makes him an excellent candidate — he brings fresh and much-needed ideas to the position, solutions which all should benefit from and approve of, regardless of party.

Buttigieg’s “Hoosier Capital Connector” plan intends to link small businesses planning to expand or create new jobs to a community banking partner in a linked-deposit program. Under this plan, the state does not spend money but invests it.

“The risk remains with the banks, not with the taxpayers,” Buttigieg said.  

Moreover, he is very much an open-government man who wishes to make the state’s investments transparent. Right now, as Buttigieg notes, a citizen must go through an information request process “much like an investigative journalist.” He wishes to free up this process through the web, “which gives us the perfect tool to make transparency possible — cheap and easy.”

Buttigieg also has refused to take money from banks and special interests, which he believes is a clear conflict of interest — one he hopes to work with the legislature to prohibit once he is in office. We endorse Peter Buttigieg — he’s a sharp guy.

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Staff Vote:
Pete Buttigieg - D (6 votes)
Richard Mourdock - R (2 votes)