“This is my first job out of school. It’s not like I was the CEO. I was making a lot of spreadsheets and PowerPoints, but people ought to know from somebody who proposes to be president of the United States, what’s in your past,” Buttigieg told Lightfoot. “And I am asking my former employer to do the right thing — to not make me choose between claiming the moral high ground and going back on my word. They could fix this tonight."