Tom Perez makes false statement to Mike Levine

Tom Perez told Mike Levine at Fox News this:

“You look at our enforcement actions in the Obama administration in the voting context, and you see cases where we’ve had African-American defendants and white victims, and you see cases that involve white defendants and African-American victims,” Perez said.

This is entirely false and Mike Levine should know better.  (Lets guess the excuse – 2:1 “misspoke”;  5:1 “misunderstood”;  20:1 “reporters got the quote wrong.”)  Contact information on the left of this page, if interested.  There isn’t a single case the Obama DOJ filed with “African American defendants and white victims.”  This is totally false.  The Ike Brown case was filed by the Bush Administration.   The motion filed (which incidently still hasn’t been granted 6 months later, and probably never will) was filed in an active case brought by the Bush Adminstration.

And whether or not the phony motion filed in the Ike Brown case qualifies, see
here.   In fact, I have multiple sources in Mississippi that tell me not a single call was made by the DOJ into Mississippi on this issue until after my columns appeared on the topic.  It was a reaction to sunlight, not a pre-existing policy.  Hopefully Mike Levine won’t be duped again by Perez the next time he speaks to him.  Until then, contact info on the left.