Political Quotes

“I rise today first to declare a conflict of interest. I am a community radio broadcast station owner and operator and have been for 14 years. My father started in this business in the late 1930s. There has never been more diversity on the dial and more stations than there are today. Now, my stations are in a small community; 20,000 in the county and 23 in the other. We do the very things that my colleagues are talking about today that they want: Spanish programming, programming for seniors, and so do my colleagues in the industry. And that is what I am standing up here today to talk about, is the public service and community service that is today provided to people in America by their community broadcasters. This amendment, though, is bad. My engineer is a fan of low-power FM. He is very supportive of it. He and I disagree on this. But when it comes to the technical issue of LPFM, I want to read my colleagues what he said to me. 'My position on this is not to kill LPFM, but to pressure the FCC to consider revising at least the rules that would be most harmful to full-power FM stations.'”