{"id":17864,"date":"2013-05-06T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17864"},"modified":"2013-05-06T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:23:46","slug":"firefighters-directly-oppose-tom-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17864\/firefighters-directly-oppose-tom-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters Directly Oppose Tom Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is, as I have <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1778-ig-report-shows-vipers-den-at-justice-department\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1786-labor-nominee-puts-landrieu-in-quandary\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17712\/pressure-builds-against-tom-perez\/\" target=\"_blank\">before<\/a>, a radical&#8217;s radical. Now a large group of the heroic firefighters of New York City are <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/nyc-firefighters-fight-perez\/\" target=\"_blank\">taking him on<\/a>. The head of the group, Paul Mannix, blasted Perez conduct on multiple fronts \u00a0&#8212; and then, in opposing a favorite, radical political theory of Perez, Mannix put it plainly: &#8220;Disparate impact and [racial and gender] proportionalism for its own sake is going to get people killed.&#8221; Perez, however, has shown repeatedly he thinks public safety should take a back seat to his favorite racial spoils system. Senators might want to take note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is, as I have reported here before, a radical&#8217;s radical. Now a large group of the heroic firefighters of New York City are taking him on. The head of the group, Paul Mannix, blasted Perez conduct on multiple fronts \u00a0&#8212; and then, in opposing a favorite, radical political theory of Perez, [&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":[2544,4129,3103],"class_list":["post-17864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-firefighters","tag-paul-mannix","tag-thomas-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864","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=17864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17865,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17864\/revisions\/17865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}