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Pete Buttigieg Will Open Fund-Raisers to Press Amid Pressure Over Transparency Pete Buttigieg Will Open Fund-Raisers to Press Amid Pressure Over Transparency
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WASHINGTON — Mayor Pete Buttigieg will open his fund-raisers to reporters and release the names of people raising money for his presidential campaign, his campaign manager announced Monday, a significant concession for a leading candidate under increasing pressure to release more details about his personal employment history and campaign finances.WASHINGTON — Mayor Pete Buttigieg will open his fund-raisers to reporters and release the names of people raising money for his presidential campaign, his campaign manager announced Monday, a significant concession for a leading candidate under increasing pressure to release more details about his personal employment history and campaign finances.
The move from the mayor of South Bend, Ind., comes amid a back and forth between Mr. Buttigieg and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has spent the past several days challenging Mr. Buttigieg to open his fund-raisers to the press. It is an tacit admission that he could not sustain a transparency fight with Ms. Warren, who has from the earliest days of her campaign sought to claim the moral high ground on campaign finances. The move from the mayor of South Bend, Ind., comes amid a back-and-forth between Mr. Buttigieg and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has spent the past several days challenging Mr. Buttigieg to open his fund-raisers to the press. It is a tacit admission that he could not sustain a transparency fight with Ms. Warren, who has from the earliest days of her campaign sought to claim the moral high ground on campaign finances.
“Fund-raising events with Pete will be open to press beginning tomorrow, and a list of people raising money for the campaign will be released within the week,” Mr. Buttigieg’s campaign manager, Mike Schmuhl, said in a statement. “Fund-raising events with Pete will be open to press beginning tomorrow, and a list of people raising money for the campaign will be released within the week,” Mr. Buttigieg’s campaign manager, Mike Schmuhl, said in a statement. Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Warren have for weeks now been engaged in a bitter campaign for Democratic support in Iowa, a state each of their campaigns view as critical to their path to the presidential nomination.
Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Warren have been fighting over the transparency of their respective campaigns, with each campaign vying to shame the other into additional disclosures. Mr. Buttigieg started it with television ads in September and a series of speeches that suggested without naming her that Ms. Warren was too extreme for general electorate. Ms. Warren responded for the first time last month, telling an audience of Iowa Democrats that she was not “running some consultant-driven campaign with some vague ideas that are designed not to offend anyone,” a remark widely interpreted as a shot at the 37-year-old mayor.
Ms. Warren on Sunday night bowed to pressure from Mr. Buttigieg to release information about payments she’d received from corporate law clients, revealing she’d earned $1.9 million over three decades. Shortly before Thanksgiving Mr. Buttigieg challenged Ms. Warren to release tax returns beyond the 11 years she had already made public, while releasing his own tax returns from the three years he worked at McKinsey & Company, the management consulting firm that employed him after he finished his education. Those tax returns revealed no details about the type of work he did for McKinsey, only the locations of the offices to which he was assigned.
Over the weekend Ms. Warren renewed calls for Mr. Buttigieg to open his fund-raisers and release names of his campaign’s bundlers, telling reporters in New Hampshire that she was concerned about “conflicts being created every single day when candidates for president sell access to their time to the highest bidder.”
Ms. Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont do not hold closed-door fund-raising events. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. allows designated print reporters to provide pool reports from his fund-raisers.Ms. Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont do not hold closed-door fund-raising events. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. allows designated print reporters to provide pool reports from his fund-raisers.
Mr. Buttigieg did release a list of people who bundled campaign contributions during the first quarter of 2019 but has not done so since. Senator Kamala Harris of California, who dropped out of the presidential race last week, released lists of her bundlers, but no other 2020 Democratic presidential candidate has done so.Mr. Buttigieg did release a list of people who bundled campaign contributions during the first quarter of 2019 but has not done so since. Senator Kamala Harris of California, who dropped out of the presidential race last week, released lists of her bundlers, but no other 2020 Democratic presidential candidate has done so.
“He is the only current presidential candidate who has released the names of people raising money for his campaign, and we will continue to release additional names as more people join our growing effort,” Mr. Schmuhl said Monday. “Moreover, he will be one of the few candidates to allow reporters access to his fundraising events.” “He is the only current presidential candidate who has released the names of people raising money for his campaign, and we will continue to release additional names as more people join our growing effort,” Mr. Schmuhl said Monday. “Moreover, he will be one of the few candidates to allow reporters access to his fund-raising events.”
Last week reignited questions about Mr. Buttigieg’s post-college work for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, the only time the 37-year-old has been employed in the private sector. Mr. Buttigieg has not revealed the names of clients he worked for while at McKinsey; he says he is forbidden from discussing them because of a nondisclosure agreement he signed while working at the firm. Ms. Warren on Sunday night bowed to pressure from Mr. Buttigieg to release information about payments she’d received from corporate law clients, revealing she’d earned $1.9 million over three decades — a sum that is far less than she could have earned as a law professor at Harvard and other universities.
Mr. Buttigieg said last week that he was “disgusted” by revelations of some of McKinsey’s work that took place after the left the firm — including work administering the Trump adminstration’s immigration policies — and said he had asked to be released from the nondisclosure agreement. The events of the past week reignited questions about Mr. Buttigieg’s work for McKinsey, the only time the 37-year-old has been employed in the private sector. Mr. Buttigieg has not revealed the names of clients he worked for while at McKinsey; he says he is forbidden from discussing them because of a nondisclosure agreement he signed while working at the firm.
Mr. Buttigieg said last week that he was “disgusted” by revelations of some of McKinsey’s work that took place after the left the firm — including work administering the Trump administration’s immigration policies — and said he had asked to be released from the nondisclosure agreement.
A campaign aide said Monday that McKinsey had not agreed to release Mr. Buttigieg from the agreement.A campaign aide said Monday that McKinsey had not agreed to release Mr. Buttigieg from the agreement.