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Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 05:50 PM Dec 2016

Tom Perez Career:

#TomPerez is an accomplished person. He's the Secretary of Labor but has done so much more. A few highlights. 1/

Early on in his career, Perez worked for the DoJ in the Civil Rights division, prosecuting white supremacists. 2/

Perez then served as the Deputy Assistant AG for civil rights and led an inter-agency task force to protect workers from exploitation. 3/

He then served on Montgomery County council where he pushed legislation against predatory lending & introduced affordable drug initiative 4/

Perez worked on O'Malley's successful campaign for Governor of MD and then served as his Secretary of Labor. 5/

Perez then served as Assistant AG for Civil Rights under Obama, where one focus was eradicating discrimination against ppl with HIV. 6/

Among his other accomplishments as AAG, he oversaw training/implementation of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and fought for LGBT rights. 7/


Perez fiercely fought against trans discrimination, police abuse of PoC, sued Sheriff Arpaio & fought against rollback of voting rights 8/

And during his tenure as Secretary of Labor, Perez has been an exemplary ally to unions and American workers. 9/

In sum, Tom Perez has a career-long record of fighting for *all* of us: black, brown, immigrant, woman, union member, LGBTQ. 10/

Tom Perez has been in our corner for doing the work. He's the right person at the right time to fight an evil he's been fighting for yrs 11/

https://twitter.com/SheWhoVotes/status/809158266764701696
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Tom Perez Career: (Original Post) Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 OP
Mahalo, Madam! Cha Dec 2016 #1
Thanks for the information! Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 #3
Thank you! Cha Dec 2016 #5
Yeap, we're again choosing between great and greater but someone will be negative about it all uponit7771 Dec 2016 #2
He is more than qualified to be DNC head! mcar Dec 2016 #4
Yes! He is a hard-working go-getter! Madam45for2923 Dec 2016 #6
#TeamPerez Cha Dec 2016 #7

Cha

(305,440 posts)
1. Mahalo, Madam!
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 06:02 PM
Dec 2016
Mr. Weeks Retweeted Al Giordano
#TeamPerez he has the qualifications, experience, intelligence, leadership & bilingual. He represents the people with a proven track record.

https://twitter.com/algiordano

Tom Watson Verified account 
?@tomwatson
"the most important U.S. labor secretary since Frances Perkins" - great Tom Perez profile http://prospect.org/article/subtle-force-tom-perez

https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/809239536924524544

Cha

(305,440 posts)
7. #TeamPerez
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 03:34 AM
Dec 2016

Judith Fardig
?@FardigJudith
.@LaborSec Tom Perez would be a breath of fresh air as #DNCChair. Delighted to be able to tell him in person. #TeamPerez

https://twitter.com/FardigJudith/status/809508398156816384/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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