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‘Give it a go, Joe’: Union crowd cheers on Biden Shuttered resort
in New Hampshire
KEN THOMAS Rodham Clinton’s lead di- Biden later walked along maintained deep ties dur- to host elections
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Hearing minish in early voting states. the city’s downtown with ing their political careers.
chants of “run Joe, run,” The vice president donned a large contingent of steel Biden has run for president HOLLY RAMER
Vice President Joe Biden a black-and-gold United workers, hearing encour- twice before, including in Associated Press
2008, when he was out- CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A
Vice President Joe Biden puts on a United Steelworkers hat before he spoke to a crowd before he paced by Clinton and Pres- shuttered hotel where the
joined in the annual Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, in Pittsburgh. ident Barack Obama. nation’s first presidential
Biden said last week he primary ballots have been
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) wasn’t certain if he and traditionally cast will once
his family had the “emo- against host midnight vot-
marched in a parade Steelworkers union hat and aging words along the pa- tional energy” for another ing in 2016, according to
marking the U.S. holiday of told hundreds of union rade route. campaign. When one man developers working to
Labor Day on Monday as members that the gap “Give it a go, Joe!” shout- shouted that Biden should overhaul and expand the
speculation swirled about between the wealthy and ed one woman. run for president, the vice historic resort.
a potential late entry into poor was hurting Ameri- Underscoring the volatile president responded, “You The nearly 150-year-old Bal-
the Democratic presiden- cans. nature of the race, an NBC gotta talk to my wife about sams resort in Dixville Notch
tial campaign. “The tax code’s not fair. It’s News poll released Sunday that. I gotta talk to my wife closed in September 2011,
Biden is seriously consider- simply not fair,” Biden said showed longshot candi- about that.” His wife, Jill and its new owners are still
ing one more run for the in a city long associated date Sen. Bernie Sanders Biden, is said to share some waiting for environmental
White House. His late entry with organized labor. “The gaining an advantage of her husband’s misgivings permits to move ahead
into the race could jumble wealthy aren’t paying their over Clinton in the key state about whether the fam- with extensive restoration
a Democratic contest that fair share. There used to be of New Hampshire, where ily should pursue another plans, which include a
has seen front-runner Hillary one America.” Bill and Hillary Clinton have presidential bid following new hotel and conference
the death of their 46-year- center and a larger ski
old son, Beau Biden. area. That has raised ques-
An influential labor leader, tions about the fate of the
AFL-CIO President Richard primary voting tradition,
Trumka, said the vice presi- but project spokesman
dent got a strong response Scott Tranchemontagne
from workers in the indus- said the goal is to have a
trial city of Pittsburgh after portion of the resort’s Dix
walking the parade route House ready for the Febru-
with Biden. ary primary. “The desire is
“If you’re looking for ener- to continue the tradition of
gy, this is a great place to voting first in the first-in-the-
get energy today,” the la- nation primary,” he said.
bor leader said. “We believe that it’s impor-
Clinton also sought union tant not only for Dixville but
support on Labor Day dur- for all of the North Country
ing stops in Iowa and Illinois, and quite frankly, for the
vowing to fight for collec- state of New Hampshire.
tive bargaining rights and This voting tradition in Dix-
to protect pension benefits ville has garnered a great
and Social Security benefits deal of attention for not
for retirees. q only the Balsams but for the
region and the state.” If Dix
Clinton on email apology: ‘What I did was allowed House isn’t ready, voting
also could be held in Hale
CATHERINE LUCEY “Not at all. It’s a distrac- game plan about how I she is now slated to do so in House, another building on
Associated Press tion, certainly,” Clinton wanted to sort of reintro- October. the property that most re-
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) said. “But it hasn’t in any duce myself to the Ameri- The one-on-one interview cently served as the chef’s
— Hillary Rodham Clinton way affected the plan for can people.” with the AP was the second quarters, he said.
said Monday she does not our campaign, the efforts As she has often said in re- for Clinton in the past four “The beauty of the bal-
need to apologize for using we’re making to organize cent weeks, Clinton told AP days. On Friday, she did lot room is that while it did
a private email account here in Iowa and elsewhere it would have been a “bet- not apologize for using a have its dedicated loca-
and server while at the in the country. And I still feel ter choice” for her to us- private email system when tion inside the Dix House,
State Department because very confident about the eseparate email accounts asked directly by NBC, “Are all the elements are mo-
“what I did was allowed.” organization and the mes- for her personal and public you sorry?” Asked Monday bile — the flags, the ballot
In an interview with The sage that my campaign is business. “I’ve also tried to by the AP why she won’t boxes, the voting booths
Associated Press during a putting out.” not only take responsibility, directly apologize, Clinton themselves, all the memo-
campaign swing through Yet even in calling the in- because it was my deci- said: “What I did was al- rabilia — all that stuff has
Iowa, which kicks off next quiry into how she used sion, but to be as transpar- lowed. It was allowed by been preserved and has
year’s state-by-state pri- email as the nation’s top ent as possible,” Clinton the State Department. The been in safekeeping for a
mary campaign, the front- diplomat a distraction, said. State Department has con- few years,” he said.
runner for the Democratic Clinton played down how Part of that effort, Clinton firmed that. Dixville shares midnight
presidential nomination it has affected her person- said, is answering any ques- “I did not send or receive voting with Hart’s Location,
also said the lingering ques- ally as a candidate. tions about her email “in as any information marked a small town in the White
tions about her email prac- “As the person who has many different settings as classified,” Clinton said. “I Mountains that started
tices while serving as Presi- been at the center of it, not I can.” She noted she has take the responsibilities of the early voting tradition
dent Barack Obama’s top very much,” Clinton said. “I sought for nearly a year handling classified materi- in 1948 to accommodate
diplomat have not dam- have worked really hard to testify before Congress als very seriously and did railroad workers who had
aged her campaign this summer, sticking to my about the issue, and that so.”q to be at work before nor-
mal voting hours. q