{"id":1670547,"date":"2022-10-03T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670547"},"modified":"2022-10-03T17:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:05:55","slug":"nepotism-alert-buttigiegs-husband-lands-plum-gig-at-dem-consulting-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nepotism-alert-buttigiegs-husband-lands-plum-gig-at-dem-consulting-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepotism Alert: Buttigieg\u2019s Husband Lands Plum Gig at Dem Consulting Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fnepotism-alert-buttigiegs-husband-lands-plum-gig-at-dem-consulting-firm%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=1670547&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Chasten, a middle-school drama teacher best known for being married to a prominent politician, will serve as senior communications consultant<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 October 3, 2022 5:00 pm  <\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, joined KNP Communications as a senior consultant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: KNP Communications has close ties to the Democratic Party.\u00a0In the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.knpcommunications.com\/post\/chasten-buttigieg-joins-knp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> announcing the hire, which declines to mention Chasten&#8217;s prominent husband, the firm boasted that it has &#8220;helped elect Democratic candidates to office at the national, state, and local level since 2006.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers<\/strong>: KNP Communications has received almost $850,000 from Democratic campaigns and committees since 2009, including $89,000 in the 2021-2022 election cycle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be smart<\/strong>: The firm, which does not publicly disclose its clients, claims to work with members of Congress, state and local politicians, presidential candidates, corporate executives, charitable foundations, activist groups, university presidents, media pundits, and celebrities. Chasten&#8217;s new role could raise conflict of interest concerns, given his husband&#8217;s position in the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 KNP Communications did not immediately return a request for comment on whether Chasten\u00a0would be barred from working with organizations that receive federal funding, for example, or face any restrictions in terms of the clients he is allowed to represent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong>: Matthew Kohut, a managing partner at KNP Communications, <a href=\"https:\/\/gen.medium.com\/the-maga-insurrection-story-war-1e49962de9ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in 2021 that the United States &#8220;is at war with a toxic ideology that has taken root among more than a third of the population.&#8221; According to Kohut&#8217;s estimation, more than 86 million American adults are afflicted with this ideology, which is predicated on &#8220;white supremacy,&#8221; &#8220;xenophobia,&#8221; and &#8220;misogyny.&#8221; Americans must &#8220;overcome&#8221; this toxic ideology, he argued, in the same way Germany overcame its &#8220;Nazi past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two words<\/strong>: Influence peddling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture<\/strong>: Chasten is a middle-school drama teacher and theater artist who parlayed his husband&#8217;s failed campaign in the 2020 Democratic primary into a book deal and a Harvard <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/pete-buttigieg-husband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fellowship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/chasten-buttigiegs-i-have-something-to-tell-you-is-refreshingly-candid-but-a-missed-opportunity\/2020\/08\/31\/97f80f54-e634-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> Chasten&#8217;s memoir, <em>I Have Something to Tell You<\/em>, as a &#8220;particularly tone-deaf, if not worse&#8221; assessment of his husband&#8217;s campaign, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened: Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, joined KNP Communications as a senior consultant.<br \/>\nThe post Nepotism Alert: Buttigieg\u2019s Husband Lands Plum Gig at Dem Consulting Firm appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1670547","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\/1670547","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}