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Biden Suffers Embarrassing Defeat After Controversial Nominee Withdraws Nomination
RedState ^ | 3/7/23 | Bonchie

Posted on 03/07/2023 11:56:51 AM PST by cotton1706

In a major victory for free speech in America, controversial Biden nominee Gigi Sohn has withdrawn her nomination to the FCC.

Sohn was at the center of a firestorm that had lasted for nearly a year and a half. Her nomination initially failed during the less US Senate term because she was such a terrible candidate for the job. The White House then inexplicably renominated her in January of 2023, believing that the new one-seat larger Democrat majority would force her through.

The Washington Post broke the news, though they did their best to present Sohn as a victim of unfair attacks.

President Biden’s pick to serve as a telecommunications regulator is withdrawing her nomination to the Federal Communications Commission, following a bitter 16-month lobbying battle that blocked her appointment and opened her up to relentless personal attacks.

Gigi Sohn, a longtime public interest advocate and former Democratic FCC official who was first nominated by the White House in October 2021, said her decision to withdraw follows “unrelenting, dishonest and cruel attacks” seeded by cable and media industry lobbyists. The announcement is a defeat for consumer advocates, who had rallied behind Sohn during three Senate confirmation hearings.

But it is a devastating blow to the Biden administration, whose ambitious internet agenda has been mired in limbo for more than two years, amid a deadlock at the FCC.

While Sohn claims she withdrew because of the attacks against her, the reality is that Sohn doesn’t have the votes, and she doesn’t have the votes because she doesn’t deserve the votes. She’s a far-left kook that has no business on a supposedly non-partisan commission that makes important decisions relating to the flow of information in the country.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenvoters; fcc; gigi; gigisohn; netneutrality; sohn
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She was pummeled in hearings.

A total leftist who claimed she'd be objective.

Good Riddance!

1 posted on 03/07/2023 11:56:51 AM PST by cotton1706
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2 posted on 03/07/2023 11:57:03 AM PST by cotton1706
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Is that a dude or a chick?


3 posted on 03/07/2023 11:58:35 AM PST by CodeJockey ("The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.” –Thomas Paine)
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With those glasses she can monitor smoke signal communications from miles away.


4 posted on 03/07/2023 11:58:37 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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What’s his name?


5 posted on 03/07/2023 11:58:45 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: CodeJockey

Ain’t no chick, that’s for sure.


6 posted on 03/07/2023 11:59:55 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: cotton1706

We all know why she was nominated.


7 posted on 03/07/2023 11:59:55 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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she was pummeled in hearings.

With what..... The ugly stick?

8 posted on 03/07/2023 12:01:22 PM PST by Michael.SF. ( The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility)
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To: cotton1706

You’ve got to look pretty hard to find a person like this.

Let me guess, she has a female wife.


9 posted on 03/07/2023 12:01:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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Know nothing about her. Is she an alphabet lady?


10 posted on 03/07/2023 12:03:31 PM PST by hanamizu
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"That's a MAN, baby!
11 posted on 03/07/2023 12:05:59 PM PST by Ken522
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That these kinds of people are seen as anything other than crazy is a real bad mark against America.

She would be pushing a shopping cart and mumbling to herself instead of in Goobermnt or a golden sinecure in Higehr Ed if not for The Left and their hatred for our country.

Be ever vigilant


12 posted on 03/07/2023 12:08:34 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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Another freak is what we need!


13 posted on 03/07/2023 12:08:57 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Just Joey Biden nominating yet another PERVERT, SEXUAL DEVIANT, or just plain F’ed up person to a position of authority in his all inclusive destructive administration.


14 posted on 03/07/2023 12:08:57 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: cotton1706

Bigger sideburns than Elvis!


15 posted on 03/07/2023 12:10:35 PM PST by lee martell
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“Is that a dude or a chick”?

Looks like a Communist “It”.


16 posted on 03/07/2023 12:12:14 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: cotton1706

Wonder if her black leather jacket has a SS badge on it?.


17 posted on 03/07/2023 12:12:30 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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And just like that - Hillary is in jeopardy of losing her title of “Where boners go to die.”


18 posted on 03/07/2023 12:16:18 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: cotton1706

Nothing can embarrass Biden.


19 posted on 03/07/2023 12:17:09 PM PST by alternatives?
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That’s either a dude, or it’s Rosa DeLauro’s sister.


20 posted on 03/07/2023 12:18:10 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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