There is a growing chorus of federal lawmakers joining Tierney, Brown, Frank and others in calling for Lubchenco's ouster. And that can't come too soon.
For all the issues now swirling around NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco, perhaps the most serious and longstanding is her now clearly documented penchant for stretching the truth and tailoring supposed "facts" to meet her job-killing fishery agenda.
That may have never been more obvious than her often absurd testimony before U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown, Congressmen John Tierney, Barney Frank and William Keating and others in a hearing earlier this month at the State House.
And local nonprofit groups Cape Ann Fresh Catch and the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association deserve credit for pointing out Lubchenco's efforts at revising history — just as she chooses to ignore the myriad facts noting the disastrous economic harm her and the Environmental Defense Fund's beloved catch share management policies have caused to fishermen and their families in Gloucester and elsewhere.
In her testimony — and before leaving the Senate panel hearing for what she obviously viewed as a higher-priority appointment, a meeting with The Boston Globe's editorial board — Lubchenco cited the Cape Ann Fresh Catch program to illustrate how "New England fishermen are beginning to realize new entrepreneurial opportunities under sector management."
Read the complete editorial from The Gloucester Times