{"id":1526498,"date":"2022-06-23T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526498"},"modified":"2022-06-23T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:34:13","slug":"chasten-buttigieg-throws-fit-over-rep-boebert-post-honoring-dads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chasten-buttigieg-throws-fit-over-rep-boebert-post-honoring-dads\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasten Buttigieg Throws Fit Over Rep. Boebert Post Honoring Dads"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchasten-buttigieg-throws-fit-over-rep-boebert-post-honoring-dads%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526498&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Chasten Buttigieg on Wednesday went after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) over a Father\u2019s Day post she issued celebrating dads as \u201cfundamental.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role of the father is absolutely fundamental to the family and to society as a whole,\u201d Boebert wrote. \u201cOn this Father\u2019s Day, I want to send out a shoutout of gratitude to all the dads across America!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The role of the father is absolutely fundamental to the family and to society as a whole. <\/p>\n<p>On this Father\u2019s Day, I want to send out a shoutout of gratitude to all the dads across America!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert\/status\/1538537944151117825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chasten, who has two children via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2021\/10\/21\/pete-chasten-buttigieg-twins-view\/\"> surrogate<\/a> with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, suggested Boebert\u2019s post was hypocritical because the Republican previously mocked the secretary for taking a full two months off for paternity leave during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/supply-chain-problems-persist-heading-into-the-back-to-school-season-and-the-solutions-give-rise-to-a-new-set-of-risks-11655825992\">still-raging<\/a> supply-chain crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur two-month-old son was on a ventilator at the children\u2019s hospital when you attacked my husband for being with his family,\u201d Chasten criticized Boebert. \u201cI watched him take calls and Zooms from our hospital room all day, managing crisis after crisis while our son\u2019s heart monitor beeped in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our two-month-old son was on a ventilator at the children&#8217;s hospital when you attacked my husband for being with his family. I watched him take calls and Zooms from our hospital room all day, managing crisis after crisis while our son&#8217;s heart monitor beeped in the background. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zRkLiAANgV\">pic.twitter.com\/zRkLiAANgV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chasten\/status\/1539693297911881728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boebert in November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1p_R7XjcFsE&#038;t=345s\">criticized<\/a> \u201cMayor Pete\u201d for being MIA during \u201cone of the worst supply-chain crises since 1979.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy was gone \u2014 the guy was not working,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause why? He was trying to figure out how to chest-feed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, I\u2019m a mother of four,\u201d the Republican continued. \u201cI delivered one of my children in the front seat of my truck. \u2026 As a mom of four, we got things to do; ain\u2019t nobody got time for two-and-a-half months of paternity leave. We have a world to save, here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boebert suggested that while\u00a0Buttigieg was not working he was using the same time to build \u201cup his image,\u201d noting an Amazon Prime documentary titled \u201cMayor Pete,\u201d which was released in October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>CNN host Jake Tapper in October pressed Buttigieg on why there was no announcement about his leave and no appointment of an acting secretary in the interim, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/17\/buttigieg-defends-being-on-paternity-leave-amid-supply-chain-crisis\/\">reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg brushed off the question and claimed that\u00a0the department\u2019s deputy secretary Polly Trottenberg was \u201cdoing phenomenal work\u201d while he was gone for two months.<\/p>\n<p>The transportation secretary went on to say he was \u201cproud\u201d of taking the time off, while claiming that he realized he still had to be \u201cavailable 24\/7.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I have been on paternity leave, and I\u2019m proud of it, obviously, given the nature of my job, when you take a job like mine, you understand and accept that you\u2019re going to have to be available 24\/7, depending on what\u2019s going on, and you\u2019re going to have to engage,\u201d Buttigieg said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I did, even if that meant taking a phone call or making a decision from a hospital room,\u201d the former presidential candidate added. \u201cBut I am so thankful for the phenomenal work that my colleagues at the Department of Transportation have done and are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, too, criticized Buttigieg\u2019s lengthy absence, which can be viewed, below:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chasten Buttigieg on Wednesday went after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) over a Father\u2019s Day post she issued celebrating dads as \u201cfundamental.\u201d \u201cThe role of the father is absolutely fundamental to the family and to society as a whole,\u201d Boebert wrote. \u201cOn this Father\u2019s Day, I want to send out a shoutout of gratitude to all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1526547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}