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► STATEHOUSEParty leaders crow over recruitment of primary candidatesLocally, Democratsfield candidates in more as party boss, legislative districts thanRepublicans.By KEVIN LANDR1GAN Telegraph Staffthree dozen more than he had been targeting for his first electionCONCORD — Democratic. Republican and Libertarian leaderscould barely contain their delight this week, having recruited a sizable stable of candidates for the Sept. 13 primary'.Locally, Democrats did particularly better than in past years, fielding a candidate for all 29 House seats in Nashua.Of the 81 seats in the House within the region, the Democrats failed to find candidates in 14 districts. Their gaping holes were in Windham (no one running for four seats) and Amherst (only one for four seats).Republicans lacked a candidate in 17 area districts, including 16seats representing wards in Nashua.The GOP failed to put up anyone for the three ward seats in both Wards 4 and 6. The onlv town seat without a GOP competitor was one of two seats that represent Brookline, Hollis and M ason.Libertarians managed to file candidates in eight of the 81 House districts.House Democratic Leader Rick Trombly, D-Boscawen, credited both his staff and new Democratic Party Chairman Joseph Keefe with helping to attract 333 candidates for the House,I couldn't be happier about the job that was done. We’ve got a super crop of candidates.” Trombly said.I think whenever you break the350 mark in a 400-person Houseyou're doing pretty darn good.This is going to be an excellent year for Republicans. In an off-year, we typically lose at least a dozen seats in the House, but 1don't think it will be any more*»than that with the team we've put together.”Libertarian Party spokesman Jim McLarin said the third party fielded a record 91 candidates for theHouse, up from 85 two years ago.Democratic Party leaders also were happy about getting Democrats to run in 22 of the 24 Senate races. And in the two districts where thev lack a candidate. Buck-ley said the party will help mount write-in campaigns to secure the nominations for independents who already are planning to run in November.One of those two independents is state Rep. Gregory Hanselman, I-New Ipswich, who is seeking a political promotion from the voters in running for the District 11 Senate seat occupied by Sen. Dave Wheeler. R-Milford.The other independent is former Sen. Bill Johnson of North wood, who served in the Senate as a Republican but had run in past years as a Democrat. He is hoping to knock off Sen. Jack Barnes, R-Raymond, who has beaten Johnson in the GOP primary before.Individual candidates had to file their papers to run by last Friday at 5 p.m. But political parties had until late Wednesday this week to find candidates to run for slots where they did not have anyone on the Sept. 13 ballot.Jim Simonson of Nashua, an administrative assistant in Trombly's office, said it was hard to find can-Party Executive Director Ray- didates to run for all 29 seats inmond Buckley said the party has “covered” or filled roughly 320 of the 400 seats in the House of Representatives, which he dubbed a modern-day record.“Over the last few days we really beat the bushes.” Buckley said.GOP State Chairman Steve Du-prey said 386 candidates for the House had filed by midweekNashua.‘Working six months for $100 a year isn’t exactly the best advertisement for a job, but fortunately there are still a lot of civic-minded people out there,” Simonson said.QQThe complete list of House and Senate candidates will appear in The Sunday Telegraph.
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