Sandy Rios is an American Family Association member, governmental affairs director, a Fox News Channel contributor, and a talk radio host. She is chairman of the North Korean Freedom Coalition, a coalition that advocates for the citizens of

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

. In July 2013, Rios was identified as a key member of Groundswell, a secretive coalition of right wing activists and journalists attempting to make radical political change behind the scenes. In January 2007, she returned as WYLL afternoon host through July 2010. Rios was given the 2005

Henry Hyde Henry John Hyde (April 18, 1924 – November 29, 2007) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's ...

Leadership Award, a Pro-Life Action League's "Protector Award",

Eagle Forum Eagle Forum is a conservative interest group in the United States founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972 and is the parent organization that also includes the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund and the Eagle Forum PAC. The Eagle Forum has ...

's Excellence Award and Family PAC's 1999 "Conservative of the Year". In 2015, she publicly claimed the sexual orientation of an AMTRAK engineer on duty during the

2015 Philadelphia train derailment On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak ''Northeast Regional'' train from Washington, D.C. bound for New York City derailed and wrecked on the Northeast Corridor near the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of 238 passengers and 5 crew on ...

was a possible factor in the crash.

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