[ April 25, 2024 ]
The Federal Election Commission member who headed up the battle against the left to keep the Internet free and unfettered has just stepped down.
Lee Goodman was a key player in keeping sites like the Drudge Report free from political-based regulations.
And now he’s leaving his post.
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The Washington Examiner has more:
Lee E. Goodman, who led a battle to stop Democrats from imposing political regulations on the Internet and news sites like the Drudge Report and other media, is stepping down from the Federal Election Commission.
Goodman, an elections lawyer and adviser, plans to leave Feb. 16. He will join the political law group of Wiley Rein in Washington.
“Serving the American people as a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission has been a profound honor,” he said in a resignation letter to President Trump.
For years, Goodman has been a tireless voice for First Amendment rights on the internet. He has blocked several flagrant and subtle efforts by FEC Democrats to impose regulations on conservative media, the internet, and major websites like Fox, the Drudge Report, Facebook, and Twitter.
“Since the agency’s inception, the Federal Election Commission’s unique mandate to respect the core constitutional rights of citizens acting, speaking and associating for democratic purposes has provoked criticism from those who disagree with the balance drawn,” he wrote Trump.
“But protecting First Amendment rights is an inherent part of the Commission’s mission. Thus, I have endeavored throughout my service to preserve the Constitutional right of American citizens to speak, hear, and think freely about their democracy. It has been my duty and privilege to defend this fundamental human freedom,” penned Goodman.
He first warned of Democratic attacks on conservative voices during a 2014 interview with Secrets.
“I think that there are impulses in the government every day to second guess and look into the editorial decisions of conservative publishers,” said Goodman, who was chairman of the FEC at the time.
“The right has begun to break the left’s media monopoly, particularly through new media outlets like the internet, and I sense that some on the left are starting to rethink the breadth of the media exemption and internet communications,” he added.
During his nearly five years, he revised FEC regulations to conform them to the Citizens United and McCutcheon court decisions, efforts that were stalled when he joined the agency. He also spearheaded the agency’s switch to new technologies which recently resulted in a better and easier to use website.
A key driving force during his term was limiting regulation of new technology that has come to dominate politics.
“We restrained unlawful efforts to regulate, and in some cases censor, American citizens’ political opinions on YouTube and Twitter, as well as the freedom of press outlets like Fox News and WCVB-TV of Boston to make editorial decisions concerning their political coverage,” he wrote.
Goodman is in his fifth year of what is typically a six-year appointment. He will be the second commissioner to retire in the last year, joining Democrat Ann Ravel. It will leave the commission split between two Republicans and two Democrats.
Goodman was chair of the commission in 2014 and vice chairman in 2013. He advised four presidential campaigns from 2007 to 2012 and was a policy advisor to former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore. And notably, he worked with former Republican National Committee Chairman Lee Atwater for then-Vice President George H.W. Bush in the 1980s.
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4 Comments
6 years ago
Patriots fight for the country
Traitors fight to destroy the country
Patriots respect the laws
Traitors do not care about the laws
6 years ago
Yeah the thing is YouTube and Facebook and twitter were censoring anyway. They censored everybody who had an alternative view to the UN satanic view.
So basically if you were not getting into debt using your credit card to purchase Justin Bieber records then you are the enemy.
It wasn’t only Obama it was Bush too. #CHICAGOSOBAMA
http://bostonreview.net/blog/transparent-citizens-invisible-government
https://youtu.be/SNawWkp19OM
Recent events are interesting.
https://youtu.be/nDixoT8GhMo
6 years ago
Everyone reads this send twitter request to advise trump to give this patriot same job or another responsibility. He needs patriots in his team to beat the Dem mafia.
Did you know Like facebook , twitter, even Google has joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
To censor conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris
And conservatives don’t want to fund the alternative media, nor unite to pursue the issue politically or legally then act surprised their First amendment is not getting up and fighting for them !
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
“And conservatives don’t want to fund the alternative media, nor unite to pursue the issue politically or legally then act surprised their First amendment is not getting up and fighting for them !”
They’re not true conservatives.
