about what we want our city to look like going forward. when he was running for mayor back in 2011, he was still i think coming out of his shell. i think he was becoming more comfortable with public life and campaigning and going up to strangers and saying, hey, i m pete. and i remember one instance, we locked into an older polish hall on the west side of south bendch we had just kicked off a mayoral campaign. he goes, what should i do? i said you are going to shake every hand in this room and you re going to come back and we re going to have dinner toke. that s what he did. an upstate candidate who never held elected office. buttigieg campaigned on the promise of remaking south bend. he managed to get support of the city s chamber of commerce. he won in a landslide. a young man with a funny name and no political experience managed to win the confidence of a community at a turning point. but what had he inherited?