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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTom 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/
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Tom Perez Career: (Original Post)
Madam45for2923
Dec 2016
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Cha
(305,440 posts)1. Mahalo, Madam!
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
#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
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)3. Thanks for the information!
Cha
(305,440 posts)5. Thank you!
Backatcha~
uponit7771
(91,767 posts)2. Yeap, we're again choosing between great and greater but someone will be negative about it all
mcar
(43,518 posts)4. He is more than qualified to be DNC head!
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)6. Yes! He is a hard-working go-getter!
Cha
(305,440 posts)7. #TeamPerez
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