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TexasTowelie

(117,040 posts)
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 02:44 AM Jul 2020

Buttigieg, South Carolina mayor team up on COVID effort

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has teamed up with the mayor of South Carolina’s capital city to help municipalities stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Steve Benjamin said Thursday that he and Buttigieg have been co-chairing the Pandemic Resilience Working Group for America’s Mayors. The group is organized by the COVID-19 Study Group at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

The guidelines are important for cities, which have different concerns and needs amid the outbreak, Benjamin said. According to the mayor, his effort with Buttigieg has focused on providing accessible guidance to both policymakers and the public on how to target and suppress the spread of COVID-19, including a color-coded map to categorize an area’s risk level based on the number of new daily cases.

“The roadmap that we’ve been able to lay out with the leadership of these amazing researchers, public health and policy can stop the spread of the virus, save lives and our economy,” Benjamin said. “I’m also excited to work with Pete Buttigieg again. As America was able to see over the course of last year, he’s one of the brightest minds in our country.”

Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/02/buttigieg-south-carolina-mayor-team-up-on-covid-effort/

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Buttigieg, South Carolina mayor team up on COVID effort (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2020 OP
Love Pete! 😘 His Pac & Hillary's Pac are working together as well. Budi Jul 2020 #1
So very true. Scarsdale Jul 2020 #2
Pete's bored. Laelth Jul 2020 #3
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. Love Pete! 😘 His Pac & Hillary's Pac are working together as well.
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 03:03 AM
Jul 2020

Busy man! Really glad he's organizing & vocal.
He is a brilliant mind with much to offer for the future of our country.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
2. So very true.
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 05:11 AM
Jul 2020

We are so very fortunate to have Pete, Hillary and others just like them, since we have ZERO leadership in DC. Well, apart from Nancy and our democratic reps, who are fighting against a tide of inept, incompetent, STUPID gop members and their "leader".

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