Lawmakers have expressed concern to Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson over allegations that he hired Republican lobbyists to review a PBS program without disclosing the hire to the rest of the CPB board. In meetings this week, the CPB Board hopes to elect a new president, reported to be Patricia Harrison, an Assistant Secretary of State and a former Co-Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
“We find it astonishing that Ms. Harrison, given her former prominence as a partisan political figure, would even be considered as a candidate for a job that demands that the occupant be non-political,” wrote Sens. Byron Dorgan, Hillary Clinton and Frank Lautenberg. They said it would be a “serious mistake” to select Harrison as president of an organization designed to “insulate public broadcasters from government and politics.”
Lawmakers Protest Installing Prominent Republican as CPB President
Lawmakers Protest Installing Prominent Republican as CPB President