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RELEASE: Tuesday March
17, 2009
MBRT Urges Swift Senate Confirmation of Tom Perez as Nation's Top Civil Rights Leader at Justice Department
Washington,
D.C. - Roger
A. Campos, President &
CEO Minority Business
RoundTable today released
the following statement
in support of President
Obama's selection of Thomas
E. Perez to run the Civil
Rights Division of the
U.S. Department of Justice:
"MBRT
congratulates Tom Perez
on his nomination as this
country's top civil rights
attorney at the Justice
Department," said Roger
A. Campos. "Tom has been
a leading advocate for
the underserved and passionate
in his work across cultural
and community barriers
in providing fair and
balanced leadership serving
as Maryland's Secretary
of Labor, Licensing &
Regulation, Montgomery
County Council, Deputy
Assistant Attorney General
for Civil Rights and other
leadership positions throughout
his entire career. We
need a role model and
visionary who understands
the plight of the less
fortunate in our society
to provide services and
programs for our youth
and next generation of
business leaders in our
diverse community. Tom
will provide invaluable
public service to strengthen
U.S. policies towards
helping to re-enforce
business opportunities
and programs for small
and minority businesses
that are looking to gain
a fair share of federal
markets for their products
and services."
MBRT
member Garland Williamson,
CEO Information Control
Systems Corporation located
in Baltimore, MD said,
" Tom Perez has been a
leader against predatory
lending among minorities
and worked tirelessly
to improve literacy for
Hispanics and other immigrant
communities. He is deeply
concerned about leveling
the playing field for
minority entrepreneurs."
About
the Minority Business
RoundTable:
The Minority Business
RoundTable is the only
national non-profit organization
for CEOs of the nation's
leading African-American,
Asian-American, Hispanic-American,
Native-American and other
minority-owned businesses.
Its members analyze and
help formulate effective
public policies that impact
minority-owned business.
Our corporate members
work to create sustainable
communities and national
economic viability through
successful partnerships.
The
Minority Business RoundTable
is proud to have Glaxco
Smith Kline, Equifax,
IMPAC real estate holding
companies, the Allegis
Group and Aerotek, Inc.,
the Business Roundtable,
an association of chief
executive officers of
the country's leading
corporations, Western
Union, the Kauffman Foundation,
U.S. Department of Energy,
U.S. Small Business Administration,
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, U.S. Department
of Labor and other federal
agencies, corporations
and business trade groups
as strategic partners.
For more information on
the Minority Business
RoundTable, please visit
www.mbrt.net.
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Roundtable 1629 K Street,
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D.C. 20006 202-289-8881
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