We can only hope Frank is also proven right — and real soon — after backing off his demand for Lubchenco's ouster a day later on assurances from high-ranking facets of the Obama administration that fishermen's concerns can indeed be addressed with Lubchenco in place.
Congressman Barney Frank had it right the first time, when he openly called last week for Jane Lubchenco's resignation or ouster as chief administrator of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
He was right in the money in noting that Lubchenco's attitude toward commercial fishermen bordered on downright "hostility."
Indeed, for all her now-clearly bogus promises to mend the admittedly "dysfunctional" relationship between fishermen and the bureaucrats who regulate them, those wrongs have worsened, not eased, in the last 18 months since the former Environmental Defense vice chairwoman brought that high-powered lobbyist group's "catch shares" manifesto right into NOAA. And it was good to see local Congressman John Tierney and North Carolina Republican Congressman Walter Jones join the call for Lubchenco's ouster, too.
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