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Tom Perez to run for Party Chair
" ... He has worked at all
levels of government to move our country forward on a host of
fundamental issues of fairness. Prior to his swearing in as secretary
of labor, Secretary Perez served as assistant attorney general for
civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he fought to
protect voting rights, ensure that communities have effective and
democratically accountable policing, crack down on discriminatory
lending and housing, and expand opportunity for marginalized
communities. As director of the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton
administration, he helped ensure that people of all backgrounds could
access quality, affordable health care. Perez also tackled civil
rights, criminal justice and constitutional issues as a special
counselor for Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Secretary Perez also
served the people of Maryland in a variety of roles. He was the first
Latino elected to the Montgomery County Council, where he served from
2002 to 2006. Later, as secretary of Maryland's Department of Labor,
Licensing and Regulation from 2007 to 2009, he helped implement the
country's first living wage law and spearheaded a package of reforms
to address the foreclosure crisis.
The son of Dominican
immigrants, Perez was born and raised in Buffalo, New York.
Public service was the family business. Perez's maternal grandfather
was the ambassador to the United States from the Dominican Republic
in the 1930s, until he spoke out against his home country's brutal
dictator and was declared non grata. Perez's father, a
physician, served in the U.S. Army and worked for many years at the
Veterans Affairs hospital in Buffalo. ... "
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can read the Secretary's bio here
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