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.
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