May 15, 2013 — Ed Markey, U.S. Rep. and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, is running pop-up ads all over YouTube, one of which tells us that "the special interests are attacking" the poor man.
I think I know at least one special interest that is not: the environmentalists who have infiltrated NOAA and taken over fisheries management, with disastrous results in the Northeast.
I say this because the primary architect of catch shares and sector management, Monica Medina, was one of the hosts of a Markey fundraiser in Washington scheduled to be held last evening.
Medina is a Pew Environmental Fund veteran and close colleague of Jane Lubchenco, the former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator who brought in Medina to force-feed catch shares on the Northeast.
Perhaps you heard about this fundraiser. It was in the news Tuesday because the scheduled entertainment, former congressman and "Dukes of Hazzard" co-star Ben "Cooter" Jones and his band, were disinvited. It seems Jones once said nasty things because NASCAR wouldn't let him do a lap in a car with a Confederate flag on the roof.
This deflected attention from the fundraiser itself. The host committee includes some of Washington's A-List socialites, in particular Nancy Reynolds Bagley, heiress of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Then there's Bob Nixon, a filmmaker who runs the Earth Conservation Corps.
And we must not miss mentioning Medina's husband, Ron Klain, who was chief of staff to Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden.
But here in the Northeast, it's Medina who matters most, especially in light of the fact that Markey didn't appear at the Boston fishing rally earlier this month, or at the fishery council summit this week at the Whaling Museum, co-chaired by Mayor Jon Mitchell and U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass. (Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez wasn't there either.)
Read the full story at the New Bedford Standard-Times