Actually, the HN guidelines say that most stories about politics are off-topic, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon (which isn't really the case here). There is a general bias against political posts and discussion here.
Talking about the FCC chair is definitely relevant content, as opposed to a general politics post. Wheeler is the FCC chair, and the FCC impacts the tech industry in about a billion and a half different ways, maybe more than any other single federal agency.