En route to the clambake Sarah Palin stopped at the Yankee Fishermen’s Cooperative to talk with fishermen and pet a lobster.
While there, the 2008 vice presidential nominee spent much of her time with Charles Felch, a fisherman for 44 years and owner of the Lady Victoria, a cod and lobster fishing boat.
“It is survival, it is,” Palin said, commiserating with Felch over the difficulties of the fishing business.
Palin’s husband, Todd, is also a commercial fisherman.
Palin used the opportunity to rail against recently tightened fishing regulations, which she said have hit New Hampshire fishermen especially hard because the state’s coastline was so short.
The regulations, Palin said, were the result of “overly cautious environmental concerns.”
Felch came away impressed.
“She’s great, I like her,” he said, adding that he would vote for her.
He wasn’t the only one.
Felch’s son, unloading fish from the boat, called up to Palin, “the government screwed us so bad, I’m definitely a part of the tea party movement.”
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