What do you do when you’re the lone Democrat on Trump’s FCC? You go on tour
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Anna Gomez, soon to be the lone Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, has been sounding the alarm about President Trump’s “weaponization” of her agency against the press. And now she’s taking it on the road.
Anna Gomez, soon to be the lone Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, has been sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s “weaponization” of her agency against the press. And now she’s taking it on the road. Gomez has embarked on a “First Amendment Tour” of planned speeches across multiple states, saying Trump has shown a “pattern of censorship and control” threatening free speech rights. Under Trump-appointed Chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC has conducted what she calls “sham investigations” against news outlets. Last week, Gomez gave a speech at California State University in Los Angeles — her first tour stop outside Washington, DC. She’ll soon make appearances in Kentucky and Illinois, and the tour is expected to last through the end of the year. “I want to speak out, make sure we get the message out about what is happening and how this is a threat to our democracy,” Gomez told CNN. The FCC’s efforts to investigate news outlets — including NPR, PBS, ABC, CBS and NBC — “is a threat to the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press,” she added, “and I want to encourage others to join me, to speak out and to push back against this violation of the First Amendment.” Gomez suggested she could be fired for openly criticizing her agency. However, she said she’s “more worried about our democracy and the folks standing up to defend it.”
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