Former small town mayor Pete Buttigieg flies taxpayer-funded private jets, thus flipping us the bird

Peter Buttigieg (D) is a "do what I say, not what I do" Democrat and is our Transportation Secretary when he isn't on a maternity or paternity leave. 

When he is not on leave, Buttigieg advocates for low carbon emissions by the public, while he flies privately on taxpayer-funded private jets. He, like John Kerry and other hypocrites on the Left, leaves a carbon footprint Big Foot would be proud of. 

Since his appointment to his unqualified position [unless you consider not filling potholes in South Bend, Indiana as a qualification] Buttigieg has taken no less than 18 private jet excursions hither and thither across the country. [H/T Fox News Digital]

The Alfred E. Neuman lookalike has already traveled to  Ohio, Florida and New Hampshire and other states, and has flown out of the country on a private jet fleet managed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as per flight tracking data, which align with Buttigieg's schedule of external and public engagements obtained by government watchdog group Americans for Public Trust (APT).

'Mayor Pete's' predecessor, Elaine Chao (R) was criticized for using the same jets on seven occasions in 2017, but she is a Republican and must abide by higher standards. Human Services Secretary Tom Price knows that very well--he was forced to resign after taking 26 flights that same year, and I believe that's fair and should apply to Buttigieg as well.

"Everyday Americans face flight [cancellations] and long wait times because Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has completely mismanaged air travel," APT executive director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital. "Yet, he gets to avoid all that by taking taxpayer-funded private jets to destinations with readily available commercial airline options."

"And for someone so holier-than-thou on reducing emissions, Buttigieg sure doesn’t seem to mind the pollution caused by his literal jet-setting," she added. "This is hypocrisy at its finest, and these troubling expenses to taxpayers must come under immediate scrutiny."

It isn't known exactly how much in private jet travel expenses our gay blade Transportation Secretary has racked up, but the FAA has charged $5,000 per hour to use its aircraft, as was noted by the Washington Post in the congressional investigation into Trump officials' travel in 2017.

According to the flight data, Buttigieg used two taxpayer-funded Cessna 560XL private jets for trips within the first two years since Biden selected him to lead the Department of Transportation (DOT). 

In one instance of his use of government-managed private jets, when he wasn't on maternity leave nursing his baby, Buttigieg traveled roundtrip from Washington, D.C., to Las Vegas to promote public works projects in Nevada in August 2021.

And you may remember how the little twerp was caught getting out of a government SUV to get on a bicycle for the final leg to the office, pretending that this was how he went to work in the morning.

In late September, Buttigieg used an FAA private jet for a roundtrip journey to Montreal. During the visit, he attended an International Civil Aviation Organization conference.

Buttigieg also attended a ceremony during the trip hosted by a large Canadian gay rights organization where he received a prestigious award for his being very gay and his "contributions to the advancement of LGBTQ rights," which now surpass the rights of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers.

Buttigieg attended a 2021 United Nations climate summit in the U.K. where he engaged in climate negotiations with other world leaders who also flew in their private jets leaving carbon footprints that takes a village to duplicate all the while hypocritically pushing decarbonization policies. 

And while at the summit, Buttigieg had the audacity to say that aviation is a "significant contributor to climate change."

This is yet another example of an effete elite dictating to the peons how they should live while they do whatever the hell they please.

It isn't a swamp--it's a cesspool.

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