Carr Blasts Democratic Lawmakers for Pressuring FCC
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr condemned Democrats in Congress over reports that they seek to pressure the FCC into blocking the sale of WSUA(AM) Miami over political viewpoints. Carr’s Monday evening statement referenced a report members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus…
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want the FCC to oppose the sale. That report was retweeted by Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla. “We can no longer allow conservative media to lead Spanish-language misinformation campaigns on Florida's Latino communities,” he said. “It's time for the FCC to intervene.” Carr responded that “the FCC has no business doing the Democrats’ bidding or using our regulatory process to censor political opinions that Democrats do not like.” He condemned “treating the FCC as merely an arm” of the Democratic National Committee and called “on my FCC colleagues to join me in publicly rejecting this attempt to inject partisan politics into our licensing process.” No other FCC commissioners released a similar statement Tuesday. Although no application for the sale of the station has been filed with the FCC, it has been reported that the deal would involve the station being sold to America CV Network by current owner WSUA Broadcasting.