Posted on 03/18/2013 10:55:35 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
President Obama nominated Justice Department official Thomas Perez for Labor secretary Monday -- but the candidate could be haunted by a newly released report that found he gave incomplete testimony on the controversial decision to drop charges against members of the New Black Panther Party.
Perez, an assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, would replace Hilda Solis at Labor if confirmed. Obama, touting Perez' personal story as the son of immigrants who became the first lawyer in his family, urged the Senate to act quickly on the nomination.
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Separately, the wide-ranging IG report also concluded that deep ideological polarization in the Justice Department's voting rights section in both the Bush and Obama administrations fueled disputes that in some instances harmed the office's proper functioning. The department's inspector general said that on some occasions the disputes involved harassment of employees and managers.
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It’s not the questions about his nomination . . . it’s whether there’ll be any resistance to his nomination . . . and there will be none . . . maybe a coupla’ sabers will be rattled, ya’ know, just for us ignorant rubes in flyover country, but they’ll still embrace the commie.
Nah, McLame would criticize anyone protesting the nomination.
0bama’s ideology screams through his staff appointments!
Why bother?
Nothing will be done until CW-II, and we all know it.
“Obama, touting Perez’ personal story as the son of immigrants who became the first lawyer in his family...”
SO WHAT???? How does this qualify him? Typical emotional malarkey.
That’s putting it mildly...
It's a musical chairs game, which sadly some freepers haven't figured out because they got amnesia about what happened during the Hagel nomination once Rand Paul decided he wanted to play the "principled hero" role the following week.
You know what, I'm sick to death of people's hard luck stories, immigrants with single mothers blah blah blah and now they've "made good" by becoming an athlete or politician. I don't give a duck.
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