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Clinton files paperwork to be on New Hampshire ballot

New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner watches at left as Democratic presidential tin O’Malley, meet for the paigning in New Hampshire
candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton signs papers to be on the nation’s earliest presidential primary next televised Democratic and a pair of debates —
ballot, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, at The Secretary of State’s office in Concord, N.H. presidential debate on Sat- among Republicans Tues-
urday. day night and the Demo-
(AP Photo/Jim Cole) In the meantime, Clinton cratic candidates on Sat-
was courting New Hamp- urday night in Iowa, their
KEN THOMAS “Well, I’m a Democrat. I just the Democratic party.” shire voters by casting first since the field has win-
Associated Press signed papers saying I’m a Sanders, a self-proclaimed herself as “a proud Demo- nowed to three main can-
CONCORD, New Hamp- Democrat. He has to speak democratic socialist, filed crat” who would build on didates.
shire (AP) — Hillary Rodham for himself,” Clinton, an- paperwork in New Hamp- President Barack Obama’s Sanders and O’Malley have
Clinton signed paperwork swering a question about shire last week declaring legacy. been stepping up their criti-
Monday establishing her as her differences with Sand- that he was a Democrat. Reprising a line that has cism of Clinton since the
a Democratic presidential ers, told reporters after filing He was elected to the Sen- become a crowd favorite, first debate, but she’s sug-
candidate in New Hamp- her candidacy. “I will put ate from Vermont as an in- Clinton told a rally by the gested she’s saving most of
shire’s first-in-the-nation pri- forth my position. If there’s dependent, but caucuses steps of the state capitol her fire for Republicans.
mary next February — and a contrast, there’s a con- with the Democrats. that Obama hasn’t re- Sanders has drawn sup-
within moments took an trast. I’m just proud to be a Clinton’s dig came a few ceived the “credit he de- port from the Democratic
implicit swipe at chief rival Democrat and I’m proud days before the two, plus serves” for helping the na- Party’s liberal wing, and is
Bernie Sanders. that I’ve worked so hard for former Maryland Gov. Mar- tion emerge from a deep mounting a strong chal-
recession — and made a lenge to Clinton in the early
passing reference to the voting states of Iowa and
economic mantra of her New Hampshire. But na-
husband, former President tional polls show Clinton
Bill Clinton, whose come- with a sizable lead over her
from-behind second place main challenger and she
finish in New Hampshire remains the favorite to win
propelled his candidacy in the Democratic nomina-
1992. tion. Clinton was the last of
“This election is still going the three main Democratic
to be about the economy, candidates to file. Sand-
right? That’s what it was ers and O’Malley filed pa-
about when my husband perwork at the secretary
ran back in ‘92 in New of state’s office last week.
Hampshire. That’s what it’s Candidates have until Nov.
still about,” Clinton said. 20 to file for the primary.
Her comments came dur- It’s expected to be held
ing a busy week of cam- Feb. 9.q

Regulators consider what to do about collapsed lobster stock

PATRICK WHITTLE setts. The catch off Rhode William Adler, a longtime sponse to continued fish- Overall, lobster availability
Associated Press Island is a third of the size Massachusetts lobstermen ing pressure and adverse and price have both been
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — that it was in the late 1990s, and a member of the lob- environmental conditions, fairly high in recent months.
Interstate fishing regulators and it has all but disap- ster board, said that a mor- including higher water The high price has allowed
are considering what to do peared off Connecticut. atorium is not likely on the temperatures, the commis- fishermen to reinvest in
about southern New Eng- A science committee of table but that something sion said in a summary of a gear and boats, and new
land’s collapsed lobster the Atlantic States Ma- needs to be done to con- report it issued about the restrictions would curtail
population, and fishermen rine Fisheries Commission is serve the region’s lobsters, subject this summer. that growth, said Beth Ca-
fear new restrictions could working on a report about which are beloved by res- The outlook for lobsters is soni, executive director of
land on them as a result. the lobster stock that the taurant diners. “You can’t much better in Maine, by the Massachusetts Lobster-
The lobster population has commission’s lobster board let them go free, and you far the most productive men’s Association.
sunk to the lowest levels will see in February. can’t shut them down,” he lobster fishing state in the “We want to make sure the
on record in southern New The board could then said. country. measures aren’t overly bur-
England waters, affecting make a decision about the “Both extremes are not Fishermen there have land- densome,” she said. “You
once-productive fishing future of the fishery, includ- workable.” The declines in ed more than 100 million could lose infrastructure —
grounds off Rhode Island ing changing quotas or lobsters off southern New pounds of lobster for four piers, bait suppliers, marine
and southern Massachu- enacting new restrictions. England are largely in re- years in a row. stores.”q