Citing FCC guidelines for broadcast television, ABC sent guidance to 2020 Democrat candidates through the Democrat National Committee, according to two CNN news hounds.
Interesting wrinkle to debate prep this week.. @RebeccaBuck and I have learned that @ABC through the DNC has sent the campaigns all an email asking their candidates to "avoid cursing or expletives in accordance with federal law and FCC guidelines."
ABC News noted in the memo that the debate would be broadcast without a delay, which would not allow them to edit out foul language.
Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.
Betois a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
has received media attention for his use of the f’word in recent weeks to react to mass shootings and guns in America.
His preference for profanity led to his campaign releasing a t-shirt to cement his use of the word to talk about mass shootings.
He also spoke on a podcast with Jemele Hill about his appreciation for the word fuckstick.
Even the more restrained Mayor Pete Buttigieg
..the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...dropped the word "bullshit" in an interview with The Breakfast Club radio show in New York, which was censored on the YouTube video of the interview.
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Democrat National Committee: 2018-02-04 Thank God That Trump Won
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Democrat National Committee: 2019-02-13 Senate Intel Panel to Conclude No Evidence of Trump-Russia Conspiracy
Democrat National Committee: 2018-02-04 Thank God That Trump Won
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