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In a major victory for free speech in America, controversial Biden nominee Gigi Sohn has withdrawn her nomination to the FCC.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.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
“she was pummeled in hearings.
With what..... The ugly stick?”
Fire on her face and they had to put it out with a shovel!
Next thing, we need the moron that Biden put up for FAA to auger in ...
Correctimundo. Per Wikipedia, she married Lara Ballard in 2007. Wikipedia footnotes a NYT article on gay weddings which is behind a paywall, so I didn't drill further.
I guess the FAA nominee who knows nothing about airplanes is still on track to be confirmed...to vote against him would be racist, after all.
Ostrich. Might have been a chick a loooooong time ago.
Is there anybody in the Biden posse that doesn’t look like a sideshow freak?...................
Oliver’s army is on its way.
Not quite like in the movies, is it?
Rarely
In any dictionary throughout the world, under the definition of hard-core, radical leftist, is that very picture.
From Wikipedia: “She is known for her “personal relationships with power players all over the capital.”
Another DC lawyer to be placed on the “Free-chopper ride to the Atlantic” list.
That was THE Ugly stick used in the hearings...
+1
Hmmm. Looks like an extra from a horror film.
That’s either an ugly dude or an ugly chick. Or both.
It is always astonishing how ugly leftists are on the outside with the “look at me” tats, piercings, glasses, clothes, accessories, etc to magnify the ugliness. Then there’s the ugly on the inside.
You WIN ! Best post of the day.
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