Gigi Sohn, the Biden administration's nominee to lead the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), withdrew her nomination on Tuesday after a 16-month-long fight with industry lobbyists that had halted her appointment.
"I could not have imagined that legions of cable and media industry lobbyists, their bought-and-paid-for surrogates, and dark money political groups with bottomless pockets would distort my over 30-year history as a consumer advocate into an absurd caricature of blatant lies ... It is a sad day for our country and our democracy when dominant industries, with assistance from unlimited dark money, get to choose their regulators," she said in a letter made public earlier today.
Sohn, a lawyer and founder of the non-profit group Public Knowledge, already served in the FCC's senior staff between 2013 and 2016.
