Democrat candidate running for Senate District 6 that represents Rochester exits race due to residency requirement

ROCHESTER - Cecil Abels, the Decmocrat candidate running for the District 6 State Senate seat that includes Rochester, has withdrawn from the race following his failure to meet a residency requirement. New Hampshire law requires a candidates must have lived in the state for at least seven years in order to run for the state senate, and Abels said in a weekend social media post that during the pandemic he lived seven months in Kittery, Maine. Abels, a Democrat, who owns MrSippy BBQ on South Mai...