So the president is not shockingly naive, Boushey said. The propertys estimated value has risen since Buttigieg purchased it. There was the cost of the campaign, of course. On a financial disclosure report, Buttigieg listed $311,500 in advances from the book, with at least $100,000 more to come. "But it was really the arrival of our children that cemented our relationship to Traverse City.". That fall, however, the Navy came calling, demanding his service overseas, beginning in February 2014. Express: After a while, you started making appearances without Pete. Yet the house drew me in. Moving to Chastens hometown of Traverse City allowed them to be closer to his parents, which became especially important to them after they adopted their twins, often relying on Chastens parents for help with child care, the person said. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete". Buttigieg told the South Bend Tribune ahead of the speech that he planned to speak in front of a symbolic location in order to show off South Bend. He ultimately chose the site where he and husband Chasten Glezman Buttigieg tied the knot in 2018. Birth date: January 19, 1982. Growing up gay, confused, and harassed in Traverse City, Chasten Glezman left home, worked odd jobs, and some nights slept in his car. Then she became an adviser to Cuomo, who had been riding high until he was brought down by accusations of inappropriate conduct with women accusations from one after another. The U.S. transportation secretary is officially a Traverse City resident now. We ended the campaign and two weeks later we were in quarantine. (wink, wink).. Delta is investigating a pilot for making anti-Pete Buttigieg comments. Chasten, who took his husbands last name, shares that story in a new memoir, I Have Something to Tell You. He will appear (virtually) at the National Writers Series at 7pm Thursday, Sept. 10. Pete Buttigieg's move to Michigan prompts speculation about possible future political opportunities. Grateful for his decades-long support for Israels security, deepening our alliance & fighting antisemitism. The move comes ahead of Bidens visit to the Mideast next week. The Rev. Its beauty was faded but not destroyed, and even the textures of its decay were appealing, like the irregular painted flooring of the small back porch. During which presidential administration did the first White House website go live? One of Buttigiegs top campaign officials, MICHAEL HALLE, is now a senior adviser at DOT. Details here. Pete wrote another book, Trust, that came out on Oct. 6, 2020seven months after he dropped out of the race and one month before Election Day. Mr Buttigieg told the outlet that they couldn't afford the one-bedroom-plus-den layout. The excitement continued to build as Buttigieg closed in on a victory in the Iowa caucus (where he narrowly edged out Bernie Sanders, who had made his own fortune selling books during and after the 2016 campaign). Sounds like Smith would support Buttigieg again for anything from mayor of Traverse City to president. Buttigieg: The first few times, I was a bundle of nerves. Those works sold more than 150,000 copies, according to NPD BookScan, an industry data service.