Perez accepts labor backing in AG race

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Perez accepts labor backing in AG race
Originally published July 13, 2006


With a purple health care union banner waving beside him outside state office buildings in Baltimore, Thomas E. Perez, a Democratic candidate for Maryland attorney general, accepted the endorsement of labor and other leaders yesterday.

"I believe that access to health care is a civil rights issue as well as a health care issue," Perez said during the brief campaign appearance in the midday heat.

Among those endorsing Perez were the Service Employees International Union - United Health Care Workers East; Baltimore's Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN); AFSCME councils that represent state, county and city employees; Baltimore activist Ralph E. Moore Jr.; and elected officials.

A day earlier, the Maryland State and District of Columbia AFL-CIO endorsed Perez.

"He has demonstrated that he has an understanding of the issues of working people," said Fred Mason, the union president.






I think Tom is going to be an awsome AG, he'll most certianly have the people of MD in mind in anything he does.