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For Pete's sake, why would a young man smart enough to be a Rhodes Scholar want to be state treasurer, an office with a relatively low governmental salary that oft times is the resting place for a political hack?
Peter Buttigieg says there's a good reason.
"It's about the economy and creating jobs," says Buttigieg (pronounced "Boota-judge") as he tells why he quit his job with a national consulting firm, where he specialized in economic development strategy, in order to spend full time running for Indiana state treasurer.
A state treasurer creating jobs?
"I'm running against the guy who tried to shut down Chrysler," Buttigieg explains.
Buttigieg, 28, a South Bend native with parents both with teaching careers at Notre Dame, seeks the Democratic nomination to oppose Treasurer Richard Mourdock, the Republican incumbent who captured national attention last year by seeking to block the bankruptcy transaction that saved Chrysler from liquidation.
The effort failed in the U.S. Supreme Court. Good thing, in Buttigieg's view, because it could have destroyed Obama...