BREAKING: Gigi Sohn Withdraws FCC Nomination After Joe Manchin Kills Her Confirmation
Channel: The Humanist Report
Date: 2023-03-07

The Biden administration's FCC nominee, Gigi Sohn, has officially withdrawn her nomination following a brutal 16-month lobbying campaign against her. Soon made this decision after learning that Senator Joe Manchin—the target of hundreds of thousands of dollars of anti-sohn lobbying—announced he'd be voting against her.

Sources:
Gigi Sohn Withdraws FCC Nomination, Citing Cruel Attacks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/07/gigi-sohn-withdraws-fcc-nomination/
Read Sohn’s Full Resignation Letter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/13c8dd05-32c1-43dd-81e1-7135e7e14699.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_4
Telecom Lobbyists Spend Big Money to Keep Gigi Sohn Off FCC: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/28/infuriating-telecom-lobbyists-spending-big-money-keep-gigi-sohn-fcc
Heidi Heitkamp’s Groups Spends $250,000 Lobbyist Against Sohn: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/19/telecom-lobby-targets-senators-manchin-kelly-and-cortez-masto-in-bid-to-scuttle-sohn-fcc-nomination/
West Virginia was the Target of Anti-Sohn Lobbying: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/midterm-politics-endanger-bidens-tech-agenda-00025417
Lobbyists Spent Hundreds of Thousands Attacking Sohn: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fcc-gigi-sohn-nomination-turns-ugly-rcna68224
Telecom Industry Breaks Lobbying Record in 2022: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summary?cycle=2022&id=B09
Telecom Lobbyists Launch Vicious Attack Against Sogn: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-03/opponents-unveil-a-grossly-homophobic-attack-on-a-superbly-qualified-fcc-nominee

Chapters:
0:00 Gigi Sohn Withdraws FCC Nomination
1:26 Joe Manchin Votes Against Gigi Sohn
2:28 Lobbying
3:37 Smear Campaign
5:34 Sohn’s Letter to Biden
7:14 Conservatives Celebrate
8:50 Outro

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