FULLER CLARK: STOP THE ATTACKS. As first vice chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark of Portsmouth has not made an endorsement in the 1st District U.S. House Democratic primary.But Fuller Clark, who ran for the seat unsuccessfully in 2000 and 2002, noticed that some candidates have taken former Obama administration official Maura Sullivan to task for raising most of her campaign money from out-of-staters.Sullivan’s campaign says 20 percent of the contributions she received in the second quarter were from New Hampshire. To be clear, that’s the number of individual contributions, not the total amount of in-state contributions, which is less than 20 percent.Executive Councilor Chris Pappas’ campaign says it has received two-thirds of its contributions from New Hampshire. Pappas has not attacked Sullivan, but he has called on her and all Democratic candidates for the seat to take a “Homegrown Campaign Pledge” committing that a majority of campaign donors will be Granite Staters.Fuller Clark this week issued a lengthy – and rare – statement. She called for an end to criticisms of how and where money is being raised, but she did so without naming names."The way some Democrats are attacking other Democratic candidates for raising money outside of the state is most unfortunate and detracts from the positive campaign we want from all our Democratic candidates,” she said. “Having run for office at both the state and national level, I know how challenging it is to run for a major office, whether it be for governor or for Congress, in a state where one must compete in three different and expensive media markets.”"Republicans nationwide would like nothing better than to hold on to the corner office in Concord and take back the 1st District seat. Because there are only seven weeks between the primary and the general election on Nov. 6, those Democrats that prevail in our Sept. 11 primary must be able to launch a major winning campaign the very next day.“That is why all Democratic candidates running for governor or the 1st Congressional District must raise as much money as they can now, both in state and out of state. And that’s why contributing now to your preferred Democratic candidates is so critical. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, it takes money to win.“Republicans know that and will not hesitate to spend a staggering amount of money to help Sununu and their 1st Congressional candidate win. So let’s not attack any of our fellow Democratic candidates for raising the necessary dollars in order to be successful in November.”