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Perez Dispenser

Behind County Executive Doug Duncan and Councilmember Phil Andrews, no one quite embodies Montgomery County Maryland's socialist agenda like Councilman Tom Perez. Having nothing intelligent to add to the discussion about Minutemen, illegal immigration, and the county's day laborer centers, Perez falls back on racism:

There’s a regrettably long history of xenophobes who oppose immigration. The good news is that they have always remained a small fringe group, and they will continue to be.

Racism. Montgomery County is paying $125,000 a year to operate these day laborer centers, and any questioning of this is dismissed as racism by Tom Perez, former President of the Board of Directors for Casa de Maryland, a group dedicated to the Balkanization of Maryland and "the resentful questing for group-specific rights." As Keith Thompson says, there's a word for this: pathetic.

Tom Perez defines himself and his political career by his race, undoubtedly having "Dominican-American" printed on his business cards, despite being born in Buffalo. But hey, whatever helps you pander to the races, amigo. But if you take away everything race-related on his biography, all you have left is his phone number and that he once worked for Ted Kennedy. And that should tell you everything.

The issue of illegal immigration has been discussed extensively on Atlas Blogged's mailing list, Atlantico, over the last few months. The subject fairly evenly divides us, and I am sure there will be many posts to come on this in the future. The one thing that I am confident in speaking on behalf of Atlas Blogged is that the Montgomery County government should not be spending taxpayer money on these day laborer centers. If Casa de Maryland and Tom Perez feel that strongly about the centers, then they should be pursuing the raising of private funds instead of county hand-outs.

Call me xenophobic.