Team, I wanted to make sure you saw this weekend’s big news:

The Washington Post officially endorsed me in the Governor’s race. Take a look at the excerpt below from their editorial:

“The point is not that Mr. Perez, 60, the son of Dominican immigrants, has held a long list of big jobs; it’s that in all of them he can point to tangible, important achievements. When he says he belongs to the “GSD” — Get Stuff Done — wing of his party, none of his Democratic rivals bother to argue. Even conservatives concede he is highly effective. [...]”

“He was a civil rights prosecutor, holding police departments accountable for biased enforcement; won a seat on the Montgomery County Council, playing a key role in attacking predatory lending in a large, diverse locality; served as Maryland’s secretary of labor, licensing and regulation, targeting corporate fraud; ran the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, pushing better protection for immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and those with HIV/AIDS from discrimination and overseeing lawsuits against abusive policing and restrictive state voting laws.”

Team, the momentum is with us in this campaign. We’ve earned the support of more unions and workers than all the other candidates combined, and we’re endorsed by incredible leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.

It’s incredibly humbling to see such a diverse coalition of Americans coming together in support of our movement to bring opportunity and justice to Maryland families. It’s clear that when folks learn more about what our campaign stands for, we earn their support. Our challenge now is getting our message out far and wide across Maryland — and I need your help to do that, Team.

Will you chip in $20 and help us keep building on our momentum in this campaign to flip Maryland from red to blue?

Thank you so much for everything you do. Let’s win this thing.

With gratitude,

Tom

p.s. If you have a second, take a moment to read the Washington Post’s full endorsement!