"I continue to believe that Dr. (Jane) Lubchenco is the wrong person to lead NOAA in a new direction …"
Congressman John Tierney may never have spoken more truer words than those, articulated when he shared his sentiments over Lubchenco's shameful insistence that she actually initiated the Inspector General's investigation into NOAA law enforcement's wrongdoing.
At the same time, Lubchenco's blatantly misleading claims in writing to fishermen who received her and the Commerce Department's hollow "apology" for NOAA's excessive policing tactics — that she had made "fair and effective enforcement a top priority" from her "first day in office" — should be more than enough for Tierney, Congressman Barney Frank, U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown and others to push again for desperately needed new NOAA leadership.
Tierney is absolutely right. Lubchenco is the wrong person to head NOAA, or any other government agency that must be accountable to the people. And it's high time he and his colleagues renewed their demands for a change.
Read the entire editorial from The Gloucester Times.