Pro-consumer FCC prospect.(Gloria Tristani is a possible nominee for the Federal Communications Commission)

Broadcasting & Cable, September, 1997 by McConnell, Chris

Potential nominee is New Mexico regulator with history of aggressive stances Gloria who? That's what broadcast and cable industry lobbyists had to say about Gloria Tristani when the New Mexico regulator's name surfaced last month as a likely FCC nominee. "I wouldn't know her from a cord of wood," says one.

But that's not what they say in New Mexico, where they've put up a statue of Tristani's grandfather, the late senator Dennis Chavez. The 43-year-old Tristani this year has been invoking the family ties in her own bid for governor. And since winning a spot on the New Mexico Slate Corporation Commission in 1994, she also has been crafting a reputation as an aggressive, pro-consumer regulator. "Commissioner Tristani is committed to...

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