Obama picks up key NH endorsement

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/09/457558.aspx

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro

The New York Oberserver's Politicker blog reports, "Barack Obama has just picked up a fairly important endorsement in New Hampshire. Lenore Patton is the chairwoman of the Rockingham County Democrats and-- like every other party leader in NH -- had been relentlessly courted by the Clinton campaign. Rockingham is one of the largest and most Democratic of NH's 10 counties -- it has a population of over 200,000, accounting for about 1 in 6 NH residents."

In a letter to local newspapers, Patton writes, "The moment Senator Obama is elected, a new image of America will be presented to the world. Instead of undermining America’s reputation for reasonable and prudent behavior by constantly threatening war as the present administration has done, Senator Obama will turn first to diplomacy and negotiation to reach rational solutions to the world’s problems. Only as a very last resort would he turn to the use of military force."

A few months ago she and husband Gary hosted a house party for Bill Richardson.
I guess she was just shopping her "endorsement" around.

At least she didn't have campaign debt to retire...with a little help from an establishment, endorsement-seeking candidate.

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