Politics and NPR

As you probably have heard, the right is trying to crack-down on the reality-based NPR. The NY Times ran an article on this, but this paragraph caught my eye:

Participants in that meeting said there was a brief discussion by board members in which one of them, Gay Hart Gaines, talked about the need to change programming in light of a conversation she had had with a taxi driver about his listening habits. Ms. Gaines, a Republican fund-raiser and the head of the political action committee of Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, did not return a call to her office seeking comment.

What? Is she related to Thomas Friedman or something? I wonder if any changes will be labeled the "Ahmad Akbar NPR Realignment Act"