Like a couple of kids on the playground, the fishing interests in New Bedford and Gloucester have been taking regular beatings from NOAA the schoolyard bully.
Their lunch money gets taken, and when they're finally allowed onto the playground, the bully changes the rules until they just feel like giving up.
Junior Sen. Scott Brown — successor to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, a true friend to commercial fishermen — has stepped boldly into the fray, sticking to his Republican roots in rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, and embracing a refreshing bipartisan course of action.
He was in Boston on Monday for a hearing titled "How is NOAA Managing Funds to Protect the Domestic Fishing Industry?" as the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security.
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