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Free speech foe Perez beats out Muslim Brotherhood Congressman Ellison for DNC Chair

Feb 25, 2017 3:53 pm By Robert Spencer

In July 2012, Perez — then the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, was asked by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ):

Will you tell us here today that this administration’s Department of Justice will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?

Perez could have simply answered yes, and maybe even cited the First Amendment. Instead, Perez refused to answer the question directly. Franks persisted, ultimately asking it four times.

Perez at one point responded that it was a “hard question.” He simply refused to affirm that the Obama Justice Department would not attempt to criminalize criticism of Islam.

So this was the choice for Democrats: a Congressman with many connections to an organization dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” or a foe of the First Amendment right to the freedom of speech. The foe of the freedom of speech won.

That’s today’s Democratic Party.

“Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez elected DNC chair,” by Ryan Struyk and MaryAlice Parks, ABC News, February 25, 2017:

Former Secretary of Labor Tom Perez has been elected the next chair of the Democratic National Committee, grabbing the reins of the political wing of the party and emerging as a key figure in the party’s opposition to President Donald Trump’s agenda.

More than 400 party insiders gathered in Atlanta this weekend to cast their ballots. The former Obama appointee will try to rally the party of Democrats still reeling from its presidential election defeat and crippled by down-ballot losses across the country over the last decade.

Many in the party’s progressive wing had rallied around Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, expressing their frustration with the status quo of the party. They felt strongly that Ellison better identified with the grassroots movement growing across the country in opposition to Trump.

Perez had fallen one short shy of victory in the first round of voting.

“We need a chair who can not only take the fight to Donald Trump, make sure we talk about our positive message,” Perez told the crowd before the vote. “We also need a chair who can lead turnaround and change the culture of the Democratic Party and DNC.”

The next chair will be key in trying to unify and rally a party still reeling from its presidential election defeat and crippled by down-ballot losses across the country over the last decade.

“We’re in this mess because we lost not one election but a thousand elections,” Ellison said before the vote. “We gotta go to the grassroots, ya’ll. Unity is essential. We gotta walk out of here with unity.”…

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  1. Steve Klein says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    Democrats tell anyone who will listen, Republicans are Islamophobic. Yet it is the Democrats who have an Islam problem. Otherwise they would not have rejected a devout Muslim like Keith Ellison as their party leader. The party must be full of Islamophobes.

    • berserker says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 4:23 pm

      Yes. They are Islamophobes.

    • Myles says

      Feb 26, 2017 at 6:17 am

      The democrat party is essentially a party of traitors dedicated to eliminating our constitution and instituting cultural marxism as a substitute. And the rats, with media and academia’s support are relentless in their pursuit of a totalitarian communist America.
      Perez is an awful choice, in that he’s just another nasty bureaucrat with bad intentions. The rat party is filled with jerks like perez, and Trum;p is more than ready to put them out of business.

      • Shane says

        Feb 26, 2017 at 9:52 am

        Yes, Perez is an anti-American leftists. While at the Justice dept. he refused to protect Whites from discrimination because he and other liberals say those laws were made to protect only minorities from discrimination.

      • Edward Dillon says

        Feb 27, 2017 at 11:37 am

        AMEN

        • Terry says

          Feb 27, 2017 at 4:15 pm

          decades ago ( 1960’s or early 1970’s) I was told then that the Dems. were the party of war and treason, but their sons ( and daughters and nieces and nephews) never went into a dangerous area. (in the wars that they started).

    • abad says

      Feb 26, 2017 at 11:36 am

      A few weeks ago I speaking with an acquaintance, who is female, in her mid 30’s, liberal, registered Democrat who out of the blue suddenly says “I do not like Muslims.”

      Her exact words.

      I was a bit surprised, I did not say a word but gave her a look which I do not think she understood – she has difficulty reading social cues.

  2. Terry says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 4:02 pm

    Comment one: Ellison- as a Congressman, and suppsoedly somewhat educated ” we gotta”.

    Did Ellison go to a school where proepr grammar is not necessary, or is he trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator and ta;lk like a street hood?

    • berserker says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 4:25 pm

      Haven’t you heard the latest trend in the Progressive circles is to say that grammar is racist? Please keep up 🙂

      http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/22/university-of-washington-declares-correct-grammar-is-racist/

      • Ascender says

        Feb 26, 2017 at 9:01 am

        That is incredible, and sickening.

    • Polk1970 says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 6:42 pm

      Perhaps Ellison is ONLY in Congress because of Vote Fraud?
      How many ILLEGAL Somali “votes” are cast every 2 yrs , for Their Brother:
      Plus of course ALL other forms of Standard Democratic Party Vote Fraud

      • Shmooviyet says

        Feb 25, 2017 at 11:19 pm

        True. Repeating myself but he knows he has his Congressional seat for life. But even if the halal markets and Somali cultural centers closed tomorrow, the dhim MN lib voter would continue to vote for him; it makes them feel proud of themselves.

  3. Angemon says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    Hmmm, seems the Dems are starting to get their s*** together. Keith Ellison’s victory would have ensured the only elections a Democrat would win for the foreseeable future were internal…

    • Angemon says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 6:47 pm

      On a second thought, Perez might be the embodiment of the Democrat’s disassociation with the working class and further alienate Bernie supporters/millenials.

    • Polk1970 says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 6:50 pm

      Perez APPOINTED Ellison DEPUTY DNC CHAIRMAN

      Instead of this Treasonous Snake,operating in front of the public,he’ s even MORE Dangerous as #2

      He’ll be Hands On as Perez’s PARTNER
      Bet somebody showed him that he could be even MORE Dangerous to America ,from the Shadows
      Hence KUMBAYA

  4. Terry says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 4:06 pm

    Comment 2.

    Perez as Labor Secretary put through ( the Cabinet equal to a Presidenetial) Executive order.

    (I think 2 or 3 , but one definitely) STRUCK DOWN AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND AGAINST AN EXISTING LAW–NOTHING UNUUSAL EXCEPT THE JUDGE WAS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT APPOINTED BY OBAMA, AND PUT ON THE BENCH WHEN THE DEMS HAD MAJORITIES IN THE CONGRESS.

    I mean, the man is an attorney- and outs through an order that is GOES AGAINST EXISTING LEGISLATION?

    I hope that he screws up as much or more as Wasserman Schultz and her successor.

    • Polk1970 says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 6:55 pm

      It all depends on WHAT him “Screwing Up” would be DEFINED as
      He and Ellison are are TWO Political America Hating KAMIKAZIES
      The Democratic Party are their Flying Bombs

  5. Mak says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 4:17 pm

    So it looks like we get a giant douche instead of a turd sandwich. Yay? Sigh.

    • Polk1970 says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 6:57 pm

      And you would be Wrong
      Perez IMMEDIATLY Named Ellison DEPUTY DNC CHAIR
      They’re a TWO HEADED MONSTER

    • Myles says

      Feb 26, 2017 at 6:20 am

      Which end of the turd will the media polish, ellison or perez?

  6. Jon Sobieski says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    I wanted Ellison to win. It would have been perfect. Imam Ellison leading the Democrati Party as they fight for Islam. What could be better?

    • berserker says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 4:27 pm

      With Linda Sarsour by his side, it would have been a dream team for the Progressive Jamaat-e-Democrats.

    • Polk1970 says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 6:58 pm

      Perez made Ellison DEPUTY DNC Chair

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 4:52 pm

    Judging from the picture showing that Perez already starts to grow his Islamic beard, he does not present any improvement over the guy whom he just did beat in the race. One Islamophile versus another: what difference does it make?

    • steve brown says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 5:03 pm

      Voytek Gagalka : Hit the nail right on the head. Perez’s beard is a big time tip off . Perez sounds like he is

      a soldier taking his marching orders from the global jihad caliphate.

      • Polk1970 says

        Feb 25, 2017 at 7:04 pm

        And Ellison IS HIS DEPUTY
        Bet if Ellison won,Perez would be Deputy

  8. Di says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    What positive message do they think they have to talk about? Nothing good about their message.

    • Terry says

      Feb 26, 2017 at 1:17 pm

      On the radio the other day, I heard a discussion of an interview with some Dem. official. (I missed the name).

      he was asked what were the Dems. plans. His answer- to obstruct Pres. Trump.

      he was asked, do you/does the party have alternative ideas. he replied no.

      The Dem Senator form Delaware said, one cannot govern by rejecting everything that the other party offers, while offering nothing.

      (This was the synopsis of the interview and the Delaware Senator’s view)

      The Senator made sense. The one being interviewed did not.

      It was also mentioned -in passing- that DeBlassio was “interviewed” by the Feds for over an hour,- re. corruption in his administration. he denied it all. (What would one expect?).

      I am surprised he did not say it was political- but the US Attorney-to the best of my knowledge ( who got indictments against many of Cuomo’s top people) is a Dem.

      I have not heard that Trump appointed new US Attorney’s, yet. (U S Attorney’s serve at the pleasure of the President).

  9. Daniel Triplett says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    Maybe Perez just painted a big target on his head.

    Perez’s first accomplishment as DNC Chair was to immediately nominate and successfully appoint Ellison as the Deputy DNC Chair; meaning Ellison is now a heartbeat away from the DNC Chair’s power.

    Imagine all the pissed off Muslims who want Ellison to be in charge, willing to do anything to make it happen.

    • Polk1970 says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 7:14 pm

      HE IS IN CHARGE
      The DEPUTY does the “DOING” ,OUT of The Public Eye.

  10. Wellington says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 6:47 pm

    The Democratic Party, I have concluded, finally needs to go the way of the Whig Party, which is to say it should be no more. It fully deserves extinction.

    It has become an enemy of freedom, of the Constitution as written, and of common sense. It is now no more than yet another Leftist Western party and which seeks really stupid things like the ominous distinction between free speech and hate speech, the continuance of those twin fallacies, political correctness and multiculturalism, the utter destruction of the Second Amendment by way of the bogus distinction between “the people” and “the militia” (N.B., there is none), the continued exculpation of the wretched religion which is Islam, the never ending flagellation of Western Civilization which civilization pioneered more freedoms than any other civilization in history, and an aversion to the entire concept of a well functioning nation-state by way of one of its chief priorities, i.e., a globalist, one-world community, which is a stupid pipe dream at best and a recipe for the utter destruction of freedom at worst (hey, just look at those proto-types for this globalist, world community nonsense, the EU and UN, for some confirmation here).

    Oh yeah, time for the Democratic Party to go. Understand, I think a strong two-party system is optimal for a free polity, a free political configuration. If you have only one party, then you have authoritarianism. If you have a multiplicity of parties, then you have instability at best, rancid division and unworkability at worst.

    But for a two-party system to work, neither major parties can have lost their collective mind. They of course need not (nor could not) be perfect, and surely the Republican Party is far from perfect, but at least the Republican Party, with all its deficiencies, is not missing any major toys in the collective attic, contra the present Democratic Party.

    I’m not sure what to replace the Democratic Party with, but not knowing in this regard functions as no defensible reason not to think that the current Democratic Party of the USA needs to go. I mean why keep rot around just because you have no immediate replacement for rot?

    The Democratic Party of old—-of Truman, JFK, LBJ and Moynihan—-is no more. What has replaced it is truly something pathetic and inimical to the continued preservation of liberty. Oh yeah, time to say goodbye to a once great party which has NOTHING of greatness about it anymore. The fact that the choice was between Perez and Ellison for DNC simply serves as ipso facto evidence of just how great the descent has been.

    • Polk1970 says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 7:44 pm

      The Democratic Party has been HIJACKED into a Party of Sedition and TREASON
      The Democratic Party is WEAPONIZED Against America

      Perez and Ellison are its Field Marsals

  11. Laura says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 7:27 pm

    People forget that Tom Perez was one of the bigs involved in the Fast and Furious scandal here in AA. Instead of being fired, he was promoted to DC. I was hoping for Ellison; but as 2nd chair, he’ll get away with a whole lot more under the radar, unfortunately.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Feb 25, 2017 at 11:07 pm

      Agreed– X Ellison is more frightening away from the eyes of the public.
      And a bit emotionally unstable. The Dhemms don’t want a case like him out front.

  12. Eric Jones says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 7:40 pm

    So Perez was Labor Secretary. No wonder American citizens are out of work. Perez and Ellison, two out of the three stooges! If the DNC thinks that this line up will appeal to grass rooots voters they are mistaken. Most Black Americans and Latinos are Christian and do not want sharia. Most of these two groups still share a work ethic out look because they want a future for themselves and their children. Globalization and crazy Left ideas are not for them. The DNC made no effort that I can see to appeal to the Sanders Democrats. I am surprised that the DNC did not reach out to a White male Democrat elected official from a Blue Wall state. All of this shows how willfully out touch that the DNC is from the American electorate.

    We are watching a major political party commit suicide.

    Eric

    Eric

  13. Romans says

    Feb 25, 2017 at 9:39 pm

    Does Perez include himself and his party members and supporters in his ban of free speech? Exactly….HYPOCRITES! BROOD OF VIPERS!

  14. Custos Custodum says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 12:15 am

    Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
    He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

    Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.

    • Eric Jones says

      Feb 26, 2017 at 10:48 am

      Good job. I get it.

      Eric

  15. mortimer says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 12:45 am

    By their stand against freedom of speech, the Dems have committed political suicide.

    • Terry says

      Feb 26, 2017 at 1:23 pm

      RE: Free speech–some years ago, but not that many, there was a poll of Americans- (I forgot the number but more than the usual,1,000 or so).

      They were shown the Bill Of Rights.

      Most did not know what it was. And a good percentage were against all or parts of it.

  16. Baucent says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 2:07 am

    I saw the video of Perez accepting the chair after the election and it was the most apologetic acceptance speech I’ve ever seen from a politician. He immediately proposed Ellison as his deputy and if he was genuine should have resigned on the spot, in the name of unity. Such is the crazy world of progressive politics.

  17. SaipanSam says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 3:51 am

    I was hoping for Ellerson… He’d guarantee a Republican White House for the next 10 years

  18. duh swami says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 5:52 am

    The DNC needs a few good men…too bad they can’t find any,,,

  19. Florida Jim says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 9:57 am

    Perez is an evil man an a Marxist down deep. He hates America and will not self -deport, sadly.

  20. Don McKellar says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 10:06 am

    It was very telling that Perez in his acceptance speech affirmed that he and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Keith Ellison “hold the same values” with regards to America’s future. Yes indeed, the Left-Fascists and the Stealth Jihad march hand in hand towards a glorious future.

  21. Rick says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 11:42 am

    I was watching this on FOX. Perez didn’t just appoint Ellison Deputy Chair, didn’t he also created the position at the same time? Can he do that? Did anyone notice who was orchestrating all this?

    PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

  22. Catherine says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 11:46 am

    Dems picked the wolf in sheep’s clothing instead of the wolf.

  23. R says

    Feb 26, 2017 at 2:29 pm

    They were both foes of the freedom of speech.

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