From Fixing Potholes to Managing Billions: Is Buttigieg Ready to Be Transportation Chief?

South Bend, like many cities in the upper Midwest where there is precipitation and temperature changes, has a vicious pothole problem: About 22,000 of them gape across the city’s streets each year. In January of 2019, residents of the city asked Domino’s Pizza for help to augment the city’s $90,000 pothole budget and won a $5,000 grant for its public works department, the only town in the state of Indiana to do so. “If Part-Time Pete Buttigieg spent as much time fixing issues in South Bend as he does running for president, Domino’s Pizza wouldn’t have to take matters into their own hands and fix the city’s pothole mess,” RNC Spokesperson Michael Joyce said at the time.