Obama to nominate Thomas Perez as next labor secretary

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Saturday, March 9, 12:52 PM

President Obama plans to nominate Thomas E. Perez, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, to be the next secretary of labor, according to two people in the administration familiar with the decision.

Perez, 51, has strong labor support and served as Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley’s labor secretary from 2007 until 2009, when he was tapped for the Justice position. Perez, a Takoma Park, Md. resident also served on the Montgomery County Council and was the first Latino ever elected to the council. He has been the key official in Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department handling civil rights cases, the centerpiece of what Holder hopes will be his legacy.

Perez’s division oversaw voting rights cases against South Carolina and Texas, and the division also conducted 17 probes of police and sheriff’sdepartments — the most in its 54-year history.

Perez who must be confirmed by the Senate, has strong support in the West Wing, the people familiar with the situation said. He would replace Hilda Solis and satisfy requests from Latino groups for representation in Obama’s second-term cabinet.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-nominate-thomas-perez-as-next-labor-secretary/2013/03/09/8e34c546-88dd-11e2-999e-5f8e0410cb9d_story.html

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1. Some three-times removed connection to something evil that sets off DU teapot tempest

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2. +1

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3. You called that