Ted Cruz, R-Texas, during his failed 2016 presidential run. “We’re guided by traditional American values,” wrote Jones, a veteran Republican operative who led opposition research for Sen. In an email, he declined to name the the organization's donors, noting only that they are “G-d fearing Patriots!” Tom Jones, the group's executive director, declined an interview request. Jacky Rosen, a moderate Democrat seeking reelection next year.ĪAF also promoted criticism of Sohn over Twitter posts in 2020 that suggested she supported the “defund the police” movement and agreed with a tweet that alleged police were “armed goons with tear gas.” The likely target of that ad was not tourists but Sen. The billboard called Sohn “too extreme” for the FCC and provided information for people to contact AAF. One of those billboards was on the Las Vegas Strip, looming above an illuminated sign of two showgirls replete with feathered headdresses. It is unknown how much AAF spent on traditional advertising, which included ads in newspapers and on billboards. They can lose only one Democratic vote if all Republican senators oppose them. In the closely divided Senate, nominees have little margin for error.
The organization targeted most of its advertising in states where moderate Democratic senators are up for reelection next year, including Nevada, Arizona and Montana. An ad alleged she was a “complete political ideologue.” Such ads blasted Sohn over her connections to two liberal groups and suggested she opposed stiffening sex-trafficking laws. The AAF dished out more than $320,000 on Facebook advertising, according a review of advertising data by the AP. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business federation, said this year that it opposed Sohn’s confirmation “due to her longtime advocacy of overly aggressive and combative regulation of the communications sector.” Some business groups pounced at the possibility of Sohn joining the FCC. The telecommunications industry has battled such rules, arguing they are illegal and overly burdensome. Such regulations would have required AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and other internet providers to treat all web traffic equally. Sohn was a favorite of progressives and had served as a top adviser for Tom Wheeler, the Obama-era FCC chair who enacted net neutrality rules that were jettisoned during the Trump administration. In January, he renominated her to the post. When Congress failed to confirm Sohn during its last term, Biden didn’t give up.
When the White House announced her nomination in October 2021, it hailed her trailblazing biography and called her a consumer advocate who would “defend and preserve the fundamental competition and innovation policies that have made broadband Internet access more ubiquitous.”
If confirmed, Sohn would have been the FCC’s first openly LGBTQ+ commissioner. Sohn’s nomination was meant to be historic.
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