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| Gigi Sohn Praised Billionaire-Backed Dark Money Group that Called Policing ‘A Violent Institution that Must End,' as Riots Raged in Portland |
| 2022-06-05 |
| [Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s radical, pro-censorship Federal Communications Committee (FCC) nominee Gigi Sohn praised an anti-police billionaire-backed dark money group in July 2020 — at the height of the Black Lives Matter “protests” in Portland. Sohn, whom Biden selected as his nominee for FCC commissioner to have jurisdiction over Internet and telecoms policy — as the administration has been determined to appoint partisan leftists to critical positions in the federal bureaucracy — hosted a podcast, Tech on the Rock, with the earliest episodes starting in March 2020 and continuing to March 2021. During her July 5, 2020 podcast, Sohn hosted Color Of Change senior campaign manager Brandi Collins-Dexter, where she said it is “one of a number of newer tech-savvy civil rights organizations” and noted that she “admire[s]” the group, and “love[s] supporting” them because she finds the “progress” they are making “wonderful,” such as the “headlines of everything that is important right now.” “It’s critical to support groups like Color of Change, the NAACP Legal and Defense Fund, the ACLU, and others who’re helping to protect us all from these ubiquitous spying technologies,” she stated. She claimed that federal and local law enforcement agencies use modern law enforcement technologies to spy on civil rights leaders. Sohn added that the “amount of data that is being gathered about you at any given time in public places is both astounding and incredibly frightening” and that date gathering it “tenfold for communities of color.” However, Color Of Change is a 501c4 co-founded in 2005 by Van Jones, who worked in the Obama administration as the “green jobs czar,” and current day CNN contributor and the former director of grassroots mobilization MoveOn.org, James Rucker. The organization has a history of anti-police rhetoric and is a portfolio organization of the Democracy Alliance, a secretive group of top liberal donors that bankrolls left-wing causes and organizations, according to a 2021 archived version of the group’s website. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Democracy Alliance is a “secretive group of top liberal donors” who “budgeted $275 million to be injected into progressive infrastructure leading up to the 2020 elections.” Since its founding, the group had been “pivotal in helping bankroll left-wing causes and organizations.” But, in June 2020, before Sohn’s comments about Color Of Change, the group praised Minneapolis for its efforts to “disband police” and called policing “a violent institution that must end” in a press release in June 2020 titled Minneapolis‘ Commitment to Disband Police A Historic Moment for Our Country. This revelation comes towards the end of Sohn’s nomination process as she is waiting to be voted on by the Senate. The FCC has played an increasingly significant role in the federal government, having jurisdiction over the Internet and telecoms policy. For instance, Trump used the FCC to fight back against Big Tech censorship during his administration. As Breitbart News previously reported, Sohn having a track record of partisan, pro-censorship statements and ties to radical, far-left activists when she would be in a position of influence over cable and satellite providers creates a problem for policy-making: Related: Color Of Change: 2021-07-25 Soros hands $1 million to group attempting to defund police as violent crime skyrockets nationwide Color Of Change: 2020-09-18 Soros-Backed Coalition Preparing for Post-Election Day Chaos ‐ ‘We're Going to Fight Like Hell' Related: Van Jones: 2021-08-17 Bezos sues NASA in tantrum over SpaceX winning moon contract. Van Jones: 2021-07-21 Jeff Bezos giving $100 million to CNN fellas José Andrés, Van Jones after Blue Origin rocket flight Van Jones: 2021-06-14 Allen & Co. guest list confirmed Related: Democracy Alliance: 2021-10-27 New head of powerful US liberal donor group looks to shake secretive reputation Democracy Alliance: 2021-05-12 Democrats' HR1 election bill boosted by liberal dark money group financed by foreign national Democracy Alliance: 2020-09-18 Soros-Backed Coalition Preparing for Post-Election Day Chaos ‐ ‘We're Going to Fight Like Hell' |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 Where on earth do they find these people? Is there no one sane whom they could nominate? |
| Posted by: Tom 2022-06-05 15:45 |
| #1 This is par for the course. |
| Posted by: One Eyed Tsar 2022-06-05 09:42 |