FCC Chairman Kevin Martin refuses deal to step down: report
Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Tags: FCC, Kevin Martin
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin between White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) that would have led to his resignation in January, according to sources at Multichannel News.
The "offer" was designed to award new terms to FCC commissioners Deborah Taylor Tate and Jonathan Adelstein. But it also required Martin to pledge in writing that he would resign his FCC commission in January 2009 if a Democrat were elected president, according to the publication's sources.
"The chairman is not prepared to step down on a certain date. He is not willing to say that he will automatically resign at a certain time. He is not willing to say he will do it," an FCC source said Wednesday night.
The FCC source suggested that it would have been imprudent for Martin to pick a resignation date because it could have diminished the agency's ability to cope with some pressing matters, and because Martin is considering remaining at the FCC, even if he is no longer chairman.
Reid spokesman Jim Manley declined to comment on the matter.
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Just fire his ass. They obviously aren't getting shit done. Put the merger through, or kill it. Preferably get it done. But for fuck's sake, shit or get off the pot.
Posted by: Mat | March 6, 2008 4:22 PM
The FCC does not know what the ( H ) they are doing.
Example HD radio wrong way to do it and insane on AM Radio
With the switch to HD TV many people will no longer be able to get off air TV and some people NO off air TV at all. That did not have to happen if they did it the right way.Add to this internet over power lines another insane thing that should have been laughed at. Are they just stupid or is it Money running the FCC.
I doubt any of them can even pass the test for the Ham Radio Licence?
Posted by: John | March 6, 2008 4:48 PM
Another half-baked Bush political appointee. At least he will turn in his resignation on Jan 20, 2009, to follow his boss into obscurity.
Posted by: The Grinch | March 6, 2008 5:21 PM
here's an idea...
How about Bush steps down and we save a few thousand lives and a couple of hundred billion bucks.
Tell the Village I found their idiot!
Bush.
Posted by: Plowboy1 | March 6, 2008 9:20 PM
Maybe he can go back to beiung the ED of the Oklahome Thoroughbred Association.
Oh wait, the was Brownie.
Posted by: RonAndFezNoonTo2:40 | March 7, 2008 8:15 AM
he does not show me to much backbone. He loves to show us he is boss and can do what he wants to but for the exception of a certain black group that can get 23 meetings and say nothing except how much they want for free, and whose lead mouthpiece also happened to have been high up in the fcc.
cmon kevin--stand up tp those dopes and be a man for once and skip the favortism crap.
Posted by: time for decisions | March 7, 2008 10:47 AM
My dear Kevin
You are a disgrace and I think that says it all.
Posted by: call me sad | March 7, 2008 10:50 AM
My dear Kevin
You are a disgrace and I think that says it all.
Posted by: call me sad | March 7, 2008 10:51 AM