EXCLUSIVE: Gigi Sohn has withdrawn her nomination to the FCC, following a bruising 16-month lobbying battle that has left the agency deadlocked. https://t.co/P5Z4VXv99u
— Cat Zakrzewski (@Cat_Zakrzewski) March 7, 2023
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 decision is a devastating blow to the Biden administration, whose ambitious internet agenda has been locked in limbo for more than two years, amid a deadlock at the FCC.
[Nonsense. Sohn had to withdraw because moderate Senate Democrats didn’t support her bid. Joe Manchin opposed it publicly, and even if John Fetterman and Dianne Feinstein returned soon, Chuck Schumer couldn’t lose another member of his own caucus. Her withdrawal tells us plenty about Schumer’s whip count. — Ed]
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