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In a major victory for free speech in America, controversial Biden nominee Gigi Sohn has withdrawn her nomination to the FCC.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

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenvoters; fcc; gigi; gigisohn; netneutrality; sohn
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To: cotton1706

40 posts without noting that Manchin came out earlier saying he was voting no? That story was posted this morning.


41 posted on 03/07/2023 12:51:37 PM PST by Hieronymus
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To: CodeJockey

That’s a lesbian.


42 posted on 03/07/2023 12:52:07 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: CodeJockey

Whatever it is I’m pretty sure it likes girls.


43 posted on 03/07/2023 12:52:59 PM PST by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: Macoozie

“”She would be pushing a shopping cart and mumbling to herself instead of in Goobermnt””

Glorious!


44 posted on 03/07/2023 12:57:43 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: cotton1706

You could spilt wood with that chin!


45 posted on 03/07/2023 1:10:00 PM PST by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam )
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To: cotton1706

Jeepers! Have we found the next Helen Thomas???


46 posted on 03/07/2023 1:14:52 PM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: CodeJockey

Wiki: “Sohn married Lara Ballard in August 2007.[17]” Based on a NY Times article entitled, “A Red Carpet for Gay Weddings”.

Not that anyone is surprised.


47 posted on 03/07/2023 1:20:04 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: hanamizu

Per Wikipedia.... Sohn married Lara Ballard in August 2007.


48 posted on 03/07/2023 1:49:09 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: cotton1706

Leslie Caron she’s not.


49 posted on 03/07/2023 1:54:33 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: DoughtyOne
Let me guess, she has a female wife.

Good guess.

Sohn married Lara Ballard in August 2007.

50 posted on 03/07/2023 1:59:50 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: cotton1706

HAHAHAHABBABABHHAHHAHAH...THAT IS NOT A GIGI.....THAT IS A HEHE!


51 posted on 03/07/2023 2:06:02 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: cotton1706

Partisan extremist leftist progressive lesbian Marxist lawyer? What’s not to like?


52 posted on 03/07/2023 2:07:11 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: cotton1706

DEMOCRATS ARE FUGLY!


53 posted on 03/07/2023 2:09:13 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Per Wikipedia, married to a woman since 2007.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_Sohn


54 posted on 03/07/2023 2:09:59 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: CodeJockey

I think it’s an it...........


55 posted on 03/07/2023 2:12:50 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: 17th Miss Regt

It’s just too easy. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

Thanks.

His administration has the most homosexual and bisexual
people in it.


56 posted on 03/07/2023 2:14:11 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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To: OHPatriot

Joe ain’t nominating....anything. Joe don’t even know he’s POTUS,,,,He’s riding pony’s......


57 posted on 03/07/2023 2:16:25 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: Ann Archy

In so many ways.


58 posted on 03/07/2023 2:30:09 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: CodeJockey

Dude....therefore she’s damaged goods to begin with mentally....and what she supports evidences she’s ‘very bad’ for this country.


59 posted on 03/07/2023 2:45:17 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: cotton1706

She looks like Alan Dershowitz.


60 posted on 03/07/2023 2:47:23 PM PST by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
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