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...Until this scandal broke this summer, you'd think he was an angel from heaven, the way people talked about him," says David Morris, who works at The Peanut Store, a confectionery market in downtown New Bedford. "I've heard a lot of fishermen say they like what he's done for them...
...think he's done a good job as far as helping the seamen around here. I don't see anything wrong with him," agrees a secretary at a Christian Science reading room in New Bedford...
...district includes three distinct sections: the traditionally Democratic blue-collar New Bedford area, which still depends on commercial fishing for much of its livelihood; the more conservative and more elderly constituency on Cape Cod; and the affluent liberal suburbs to the southeast of Boston...
Studds's strong record of service to the area over the last 10 years has made him extremely popular throughout his district, Studds is particularly strong in New Bedford, where fishermen associate him with helping institute in 1974 the 200-mile-limit on U.S. waters, which kept foreign boats out of the fishing zones off the Cape...
...good head on his shoulders. He's a very smart person," says 28-year-old Pamela Moniz, a saleswoman at New Bedford Shade and Drapery...