Hancock plays an unlikely gatekeeper, with the ability to smooth the path of would-be Democratic presidents new to the Granite State.
“You know the saying, ‘Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it’? Well, she knows the history . . . more so than anybody else in the state of New Hampshire,” said Kathy Sullivan, former state Democratic Party chairwoman. “It’s just a wise thing for someone to sit down and talk to her and get her input and her wisdom.”
Hancock serves as a reservoir of wisdom on the political landscape of a state that, with its first in the nation primary, can knock candidates from the race or rescue them from obscurity. John Lynch, the former governor of New Hampshire and one of Hancock’s longtime friends, said that her stamp of approval is more than an endorsement.
“She will spend hours and hours and hours writing personal letters to her friends, telling them why she is endorsing,” said Lynch, who first met Hancock when she ran for state Senate nearly 40 years ago. “These are also influential people she’s writing to who have the ability to bring their own friends along.”
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Hancock was the state’s first female planning director, but she left the job and ran for state Senate, winning a seat held by Republican men since its inception. She held the seat for 2½ years before resigning to work for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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