The GOP’s whiplash of President Obama’s Labor Secretary pick, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez, is not about his alleged over the top activist cheerlead of labor, civil rights, and voting rights, or any supposed improprieties in his involvement with a housing case in St. Paul, Minnesota a few years ago. It’s about Obama.
Change the name from Perez to Attorney General Eric Holder or UN Ambassador Susan Rice or Chuck Hagel, and one sees that the playbook the GOP is using again to slur Obama is identical.
By Sari Horwitz and Lena H. Sun, Washington Post Thomas E. Perez, the likely nominee to be the next secretary of labor, was introduced to organized labor under traumatic circumstances. Perez was 12 when his father died of a heart attack, and a friend’s father stepped in as a surrogate. The man was…
By Peter Baker, New York Times WASHINGTON – President Obama plans to announce Monday that he will nominate Thomas E. Perez, who heads the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, to be the next secretary of labor, a choice that promises to provoke a debate with Republicans about voting…
By Rocio Gonzalez, Voxxi Third time’s the charm. President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Labor Department, Thomas Perez, was finally approved by the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, after this vote was postponed two other times. Republican opposition was not enough to stop Perez’s nomination. This was the third time…
