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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri May 20, 2022, 12:53 PM May 2022

Big business musters more lies to smear a Biden nominee because she would do her job

Riding high after killing off President Biden's nomination of a pro-labor regulator for a key post at the Department of Labor, big business has been sharpening its knives for a noted consumer advocate nominated to join the Federal Communications Commission.

The target this time is Gigi Sohn, whose credentials as a critic of the monopoly power of big telecommunications companies and a defender of the public interest are unassailable. So the telecom industry and big business in general have chosen to smear her with misrepresentations and outright lies.

So far they've succeeded in hobbling Sohn's progress toward confirmation. That's placed a whole raft of telecom reforms on hold, because without her confirmation, the FCC is stuck with a 2-2 split between Republicans and Democrats.

While policymakers have focused disproportionately on broadband deployment in rural areas of the United States, Americans who live in cities also face enormous challenges to broadband connectivity.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/column-big-business-musters-more-lies-to-smear-a-biden-nominee-because-she-would-do-her-job/ar-AAXujSg

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Big business musters more lies to smear a Biden nominee because she would do her job (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2022 OP
The RW position is that her job simply should not exist. Norton Nork May 2022 #1
 

Norton Nork

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1. The RW position is that her job simply should not exist.
Fri May 20, 2022, 01:03 PM
May 2022

Complaining about how she would do it is just a rhetorical flourish.

BTW, I'm an old union guy.

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