Secretary of Labor Perez Rules Out Maryland Senate Run

*This is interesting, but I think predictable. I didn’t think Perez would leave a cabinet position to run for the Senate. But it speakes to the larger question of a Latino political bench, the fact that there are few Latinos of national prominence and that those few are courted for high level positions. It’s not a complaint, it’s more setting of a target. We need more Latinos at the higest levels of leadership. VL

By Alexis Levinson, Roll Call

CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Md. — Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez will not run for Senate in Maryland, he told CQ Roll Call Thursday.

Several Maryland Democrats have mentioned Perez, a Maryland resident who held public office there, as a possible Senate candidate following Sen. Barbara A Mikulski’srecent announcement that she will not seek another term.

But Perez, who was the keynote speaker for the Calvert County Democratic Central Committee’s Louis L. Goldstein Dinner, said he has no interest.

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