{"id":17823,"date":"2013-04-27T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17823"},"modified":"2013-04-27T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T15:12:11","slug":"more-writers-groups-blast-thomas-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17823\/more-writers-groups-blast-thomas-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"More Writers, Groups Blast Thomas Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The excellent Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute takes on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2013\/04\/26\/obamas-labor-secretary-nominee-thomas-perez-is-radical-and-unethical\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. CATO&#8217;s superb constitutional expert Ilya Shapiro does so in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/labor-nominee-exemplifies-all-bad-government\" target=\"_blank\">a post<\/a> whose headline calls Perez &#8220;all that is bad with government.&#8221; \u00a0Merit Matters, representing the finest of the FDNY, does so <a href=\"http:\/\/meritmattersusa.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/alert-please-read-quin-hillyers-piece.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/labor-secretary-nominee-thomas-perez-uses-office-to-prosecute-pro-lifers-pr\/\" target=\"_blank\">weighed in, too<\/a>. And there have been lots of others.<\/p>\n<p>And George Talbot of the Mobile Press-Register reports a hugely disturbing story of Perez threatening Alabama sheriffs. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/wire\/2013\/04\/us_labor_secretary_nominee_thr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Please read this one<\/a>: Is it even lawful for a federal official to threaten sheriffs <em>not<\/em> to enforce a duly passed law that hasn&#8217;t been blocked by the courts?<\/p>\n<p>Perez is a lout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The excellent Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute takes on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez here. CATO&#8217;s superb constitutional expert Ilya Shapiro does so in a post whose headline calls Perez &#8220;all that is bad with government.&#8221; \u00a0Merit Matters, representing the finest of the FDNY, does so here. James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4120,4118,4119,3103],"class_list":["post-17823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fdny","tag-hans-bader","tag-ilya-shapiro","tag-thomas-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17824,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions\/17824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}