Buttigieg fundraiser accused of 'pay-for-play' pitch

Pete Buttigieg.
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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign can't seem to outrun their fundraising issues.

Axios is out with another report about a Buttigieg bundler that has raised some eyebrows, not long after the mayor received criticism for attending a fundraising event in a Napa Valley, California, "wine cave." This time, one of Buttigieg's top fundraisers, H.K. Park, sent an email to a wealthy prospective donor offering a chance "to get on the campaign's radar" before Buttigieg reels in a bunch of donations once voting gets underway in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.