Mayor Pete: -Rhodes Scholar -Harvard Magna Cumme Laude Graduate -President and Valedictorian of his senior class. -President of the Harvard Institute of Politics -Won the "JFK Profiles in Courage Essay Contest" as a Senior (2000) - that essay was about the integrity and courage of Bernie Sanders -Lieutenant in the Navy, served in Afghanistan -Mayor at 29, has served successfully for 8 years -Concert Pianist, sat in with Ben Folds -Taught himself to speak Norwegian and is also conversational in Spanish, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Dari, and French -Learned Norwegian just to read a book -Recieved a first class honors degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 2007 from Oxford. -Mayor of the Year in 2013 -2014 Aspen Institute Rodel Fellow -Recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Fenn Award in 2015 -First openly gay municipal executive in Indiana 37 years old. The thing I really like about Mayor Pete is his problem solving ablities. He revived an old studebaker state and brought in industries that had never been there before. I also like that he is not jaded with cynicism and years of dealing with how not to get things done. I also love his story of when he realized he was gay it is very honest and very enlightening. I also like that he is happily married to Chasten and is a happy man that would be very refreshing after trump who is hateful, spiteful, and cruel. I also like the prestige he would bring to America on the world stage and bring America's good good reputation back.
I’m seventeen and I can barely do multiplication. The only reason I’m good at English is because I had access to dictionary websites and read all kinds of things online growing up. My parents kept me out of public school to “protect me from liberal/anti-American propaganda” and “instill religious values”, as well as to protect me from bullies (this failed to protect my ego because kids’ shows showed me that being home-schooled wasn’t the norm, that the worst thing you could be was nerdy or weird, etc. and my cousin mocked me for being girly and babyish). My dad’s the kinda guy who watches Fox News and flies into an angry rant about how “gays are changing the definition of marriage!” on a regular basis.
