Ulrich said he felt astonishment watching Pete Buttigieg kiss his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, when he announced his campaign. In recent years, he watched another former Midwestern mayor - also Christian, also a veteran - mount the first viable presidential bid by an openly queer candidate. So people knew what they were getting and that I ran to get good things done.” “I didn’t hide I was gay, but I didn’t shove it in their face. Or perhaps townspeople simply remembered Ulrich as someone who grew up alongside them. Perhaps that $1.2 million he got in grants to fix up the city helped. But Bunceton residents shrugged in the voting booth, reelecting him 12 times in a row.
