New Hampshire Dem candidate goes missing

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"A massive search is under way for New Hampshire congressional candidate Gary Dodds, who disappeared without a trace following a single-car accident last night, New Hampshire state police officials told ABC News.

Dodds' wife, Cynthia, remained today at the scene of the accident, along the southbound side of New Hampshire's Spaulding turnpike, where state and local police and area fire departments have been searching with dogs, helicopters and marine patrol divers, senior campaign staffer Bonnie Winona said.

New Hampshire state police have issued a missing persons bulletin, a spokesman said.

The accident occurred near the Great Bay, an inland tidal estuary, Winona said.

Dodds, one of the Democratic challengers to U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley, left a Democratic committee meeting in Somersworth, N.H., and was traveling to Portsmouth to meet with a campaign fiscal agent, with whom Dodds was to finish some federal election commission filings, Winona said.

"He never showed up for the <8:30 p.m.> meeting."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=1814181

He's probably having a beer with Wellstone as I write this.

:scared:

A new story gets even more curious. It says the meeting was cancelled and he knew it. God, I hope he's OK

According to Dodds campaign manager Bonnie Winona, Dodds was driving from Somersworth where he had a meeting with local Democrats onto Portsmouth to meet with his fiscal agent as his 1997 Lincoln Continental jumped the guard rail.
However, key Somersworth Democrats said Dodds only had one meeting planned in Somersworth Wednesday night and that meeting had been postponed.
Somersworth Democratic Chair Connie Margowski said Dodds was supposed to come to her house at 7 p.m. to meet with her and receive the same campaign advice she gives candidate for Congress. But when something came up on her schedule, she called Dodds around 2:30pm Wednesday afternoon and they agreed to reschedule the meeting to the next day.


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