Friday morning, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled the first bobblehead of United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who served as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020, earning him the nickname “Mayor Pete.”
This marks the first bobblehead featuring a United States Secretary of Transportation. The limited edition bobblehead was produced by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum and is being released on National Bobblehead Day.
The smiling Buttigieg bobblehead is dressed in a dark suit and blue tie and standing with his hands in his pockets on a circular stars and stripes base bearing his name.
Each bobblehead is individually numbered to 2,021 to commemorate the year Buttigieg became the Secretary of Transportation. The bobbleheads are only available through the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum’s Online Store. The bobbleheads are $25 each plus a flat-rate shipping charge of $8 per order.
When Buttigieg was sworn into office as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation in February 2021 at age 39, it only added to his impressive list of accomplishments.
A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, speaker of seven languages, and a Rhodes Scholar, Buttigieg was also a Navy lieutenant who saw combat in Afghanistan. Elected mayor of his hometown of South Bend, Indiana, at age 29, “Mayor Pete” served for eight years before shifting his focus to national politics.
Launching his presidential campaign on April 14, 2019, Buttigieg became the first out person to seek the Democratic nomination for president. In the 2020 Democratic Party primaries, he narrowly won the Iowa Caucuses, and placed second in New Hampshire.
Secretary Buttigieg, who campaigned on health care and infrastructure reform, became the first out presidential Cabinet member to be confirmed by the Senate for his Cabinet post. He has been married to Chasten Glezman Buttigieg since 2018.
“The great thing about public service is that you have an opportunity to deliver,” Buttigieg said in a February 2021 interview. “If you do a good job, nobody cares how old you are, nobody care if you’re gay. Nobody cares about anything in your life so much as you’re making their lives better.”
“We are excited to release the first bobblehead of Pete Buttigieg on National Bobblehead Day,” National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar said.
“While he is currently the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, he will always be known as ‘Mayor Pete’ to the people in his hometown of South Bend, Indiana.”
About the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum:
The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, which is located at 170 S. 1st St. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opened to the public on February 1st, 2019. The HOF and Museum also produces high quality, customized bobbleheads for retail sale as well as organizations, individuals, and teams across the country. Visit us online and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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“If you do a good job, nobody cares how old you are, nobody care if you’re gay. Nobody cares about anything in your life so much as you’re making their lives better.”
Pete’s doing a lousy job, and the only person who cares that he is gay is himself. He used it as a campaign tool, and he just adopted two kids as political props.
If anyone at all cared that he was gay, this bobblehead doll would be kneeling.
Why is this news? Real issues in Michiana and stories are being written about Pete’s bobble head? Wtg 95.3 reporting on the real issues!
“Pothole Pete” IS a bobblehead!
He never saw combat
They must have had an overstock of Alfred E. Neuman bobbleheads.
He should be standing on a hammer and sickle flag rather than the stars and stripes. Oxymoron.