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Gigi Sohn withdraws her nomination for President Joe Biden’s FCC
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Gigi Sohn has withdrawn her nomination to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, as first reported by The Washington Post Tuesday.
Sohn, a former FCC official and longtime public interest advocate, was nominated as a third Democratic commissioner by President Joe Biden in October 2021. But over the last 16 months, a brutal and oftentimes bad-faith lobbying campaign has continued to block her nomination. That’s left the FCC with a 2–2 partisan split that has blocked many of Biden’s goals for the agency, including reinstating net neutrality rules.
“It is a sad day for our country and our democracy”
“I could not have imagined that legions of cable and media industry lobbyists, their bought-and-paid-for surrogates, and dark money…
