Buttigieg’s campaign says it has reached out to the company about the possibility of being released from a confidentiality agreement, but the mayor is so far staying quiet.
The secrecy around Buttigieg’s McKinsey work runs counter to a presidential bid he and his advisers have built around accessibility and transparency. Buttigieg has been inviting reporters to join him for long stretches on his campaign bus and ask any questions. No subject is off limits, and McKinsey is a popular one. But Buttigieg offers little that isn’t already public. He issued a gentle critique of the firm’s more recent work during a September tour of Iowa.
The job also allowed Buttigieg to present himself to Republicans as a “businessman” and a different kind of Democrat when he ran for Indiana state treasurer in 2010. Buttigieg lost in a landslide, but he continued to emphasize his private sector credentials the following year, in his winning run for mayor. The local chamber of commerce, citing the McKinsey experience, waded into a mayoral race for the first time and endorsed Buttigieg.
“They’ll try the socialist thing, but the thing is, I got started in the private sector,” he said of expected attacks from President Donald Trump and his allies during a September town hall forum in Newton, Iowa. When another reporter asked about McKinsey later that day, Buttigieg downplayed its relevance to his political and professional life.
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