Coast TV: Johnny led bipartisan push for emergency relief for iced-out watermen

Johnny led Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland senators in a coordinated push on both Governor Moore and the federal government — pressing for emergency relief for watermen who physically could not get on the water for weeks during the height of oyster season.

This wasn’t a tough season. This was a wall. Dangerous ice locked the bays, locked the boats, and locked the income window that watermen across Dorchester, Talbot, and Southern Maryland depend on to make their year. Families that work the water every day from Cambridge to Crisfield don’t have the reserves to absorb that kind of loss on their own.

Johnny pulled colleagues from both sides of the Bay together and made sure Annapolis heard the same message loud and clear: this is a disaster, and disaster needs an actual response — not a working group, not a study, not a press conference. Real relief, now.