Posted on 06/19/2008 10:08:18 AM PDT by Wendolyn128
Congress is just 23 signatures away from a vote that could finally end the archaic Fairness Doctrine and create a permanent free-market system for talk radio.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) continues to urge congress members to sign the Broadcaster Freedom Act discharge petition. The petition will “prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from repromulgating the fairness doctrine,” originally initiated in the 1930s under Franklin Roosevelt.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
I doubt it will help much. They have a new name for it and are pushing it as I type this. The Locality option or something.
I’ve changed my mind on cloning: we need more Mike Pences. A lot more!
This could be a nice fund raising letter item for some smart GOPer. Are you listening guys?
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When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821
Go Mike Pence. Put a dagger in the middle of the heart of the “Fairness Doctrine” and kill it forever.
Like all good legislation, it will fall one or two votes short. This is how the corrupt “Two-Party Cartel” works.
Ditto.
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Not one Dem has broken ranks. I’m shocked...shocked I tell you.
Let the Democrats reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine and see what happens.
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Posted on 06/29/2008 1:53:36 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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