Matt Boyle at Breitbart has the story on New York City’s plan to allow amnestied illegal aliens to vote before they are United States citizens.
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Sen. Cornyn on floor: Perez lacks “temperament & competence”
Senator John Cornyn joined the growing number of GOP Senators fighting the nomination of Tom Perez to be Labor Secretary. From the Senate floor: “Given his record, I’m concerned Mr. Perez does not have the temperament or the competence we need as Secretary of the Department of Labor. And I fear that just like he has at the Department of Justice, he would invariably politicize the Department of Labor and impose ideological litmus tests,” Cornyn said.
Congress: No More Attorney Hires at Civil Rights Division
Top Congressional Republicans are putting the brakes on any more attorney hiring at the Civil Rights Division until the rot is cleared out. The rot I refer to is the rot in the Inspector General report – where people like Chris Coates were harassed for their views and Tom Perez is unwilling to eliminate “experience with a [left wing] civil rights groups” as a hiring qualification.
The Washington Times has more:
“He said any hiring within the division “needs to value intellectual diversity” to put to rest any perception that employment is based on politics. Given what he called the inspector general’s “findings of flawed criteria used to hire attorneys,” he said, Congress should demand that hiring “not be so skewed that it leads to hiring almost exclusively liberal attorneys at the expense of candidates with ‘stellar academic credentials and litigation experience.’”
Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice and science, has called for an independent review of the Civil Rights Division. He said the inspector general’s report made it clear that the division had become “a rat’s nest of unacceptable and unprofessional actions, and even outright threats against career attorneys and systemic mismanagement.”
California Voter Fraud
“According to a spokeswoman for L.A. County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey, prosecutors are trying to determine whether backers of one candidate illegally filled out mail-in ballots for dozens of voters in an Armenian enclave in East Hollywood. The May 21 election will decide who succeeds Eric Garcetti, who is running for mayor.”
LA Times.
DOJ’s “laughable letter to Congress” on Perez computer usage.
Just wait until Chairman Issa asks for all the DOJ computer security training materials making it clear that you don’t use your home Verizon email to send 1,200 emails about DOJ matters. Nonsense.”
“Principal deputy assistant attorney general for legislative affairs Peter J. Kadzik admitted that Perez’s use of his private e-mail account violated the Federal Records Act. But the new letter from Justice to Issa attempts to excuse the violation by claiming that Perez used his personal e-mail account “to allow him to review or edit documents after normal working hours.”
Full story here.
NRO on Whistleblowers
“Gee, who wouldn’t have an ‘axe to grind’ if your bosses lied to you, blocked you from saving your co-workers and friends, and lied shamelessly and repeatedly to the American public about the reasons for their deaths? It’s this corrupt and vengeful White House that wields the sharpest axes and biggest grindstones. The casualty count in Obama’s war on whistleblowers is double-digit.”
NRO.
What are “progracists”?
“Tom Perez and More Justice Department Lies”
“DOJ has equipment and security systems available for attorneys who wish to do DOJ work at home. It allows them to log into a secure server using high-security log-in protocols. Perez could have accessed his DOJ email at home in Takoma Park by using this system. He never needed to use his own Verizon email account. And he knew it. . . .
He said he couldn’t recall using his home Verizon email account. The problem for the Labor secretary nominee is that he did it over 1,200 times, and now he is fighting subpoenas to turn over the private emails related to DOJ.”
Link.
“Obama Labor Pick Delayed as Opposition Mounts Among Republicans”
Business Week Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on the Senate floor yesterday said Perez, the Justice Department’s top civil rights lawyer, has shown a willingness to “to bend or ignore the law” in pursuit of “far-left ideology.” Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican, joined McConnell in opposition. Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and member of the labor committee considering the nomination, said, “there’s real trouble with the nomination” because “a lot of people don’t feel he’s been straightforward” answering questions from lawmakers. “There’s a real concern about giving him the job,”Hatch told reporters.
“Thomas Perez’s nomination for U.S. labor secretary is running into mounting opposition from Senate Republicans, with some saying confirmation might be at risk. . . .
[And this spells more trouble for Perez:]
Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, top Democrat on the committee that held the hearing, yesterday joined Representative Darrell Issa of California, the committee chairman, in sending letter to Perez requesting that he provide all personal e-mails used to conduct official business that were subpoenaed by the panel last month, and respond by the end of this week.
“Money isn’t everything”
After the Sanford win, Politico points out a fact that should be relevant when discussing campaign finance and restrictions on free speech:
Independent liberal groups, national Democrats and influential donors
spent nearly $1 million to flood the airwaves in support of Elizabeth
Colbert Busch — outspending Mark Sanford’s conservative allies by more
than 5-to-1.