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Madam45for2923

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2. Tom Perez Career:
Thu Dec 15, 2016, 12:51 PM
Dec 2016
#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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