The Buttigieg campaign has not responded to requests to release the documents.

TYT previously reported that Saint Joseph County, Indiana, had destroyed Buttigieg’s 2011 campaign finance disclosure forms in accordance with Indiana state law. Pete Buttigieg 2011 pre-primary campaign finance report (Text)

Pete Buttigieg 2011 pre-primary campaign finance report (PDF) He promised that special interests would have no influence on his candidacy or would-be presidency.īut Buttigieg has nonetheless continued to rely on wealthy and well-connected “bundlers” to help him fundraise - and to great effect, raising more money of late than most other 2020 presidential candidates.Ī clue as to why Buttigieg has engaged in the traditional trappings of campaign fundraising comes from early in his political career: his first mayoral campaign, before he became Mayor Pete, the leader of South Bend, Indiana.īuttigieg’s earliest big-dollar campaign bankrollers include numerous lobbyists and prospective government contractors interested in doing business with South Bend, according to campaign finance records obtained by TYT. Like many of the other Democratic candidates who once took lobbyist money, Buttigieg has since reversed his stance and refunded more than $30,000 from federal lobbyists. Pete Buttigieg has been slow to match other presidential candidates’ pledges to swear off big money in politics.Īt one point, Buttigieg was the only major Democratic presidential candidate still accepting money from lobbyists. The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust.

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