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(New Hampshire Primary Source is a regular feature of WMUR.com on Thursday mornings, with regular updates throughout the week.)FIVE NEW STAFFERS. The New Hampshire campaign of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has added a data director and four regional organizing directors to its ranks, bring the total number of first-primary state staffers to 40.The South Bend, Indiana, mayor began building New Hampshire staff in the spring and said it now has 33 staff members focused on organizing.Avinash Saraf has joined the Pete For America organization as New Hampshire data director. The campaign said he was previously a business analyst at the New York-based McKinsey and Company management consulting firm and an associate at the political consulting firm 270 Strategies in Washington.Joining the campaign as regional organizing directors are Jesse Braughton, Trevor Fifer, Marrayam Khera and Lucy Arthur-Paratley.Braughton, who was an organizer on the Seacoast for the New Hampshire Democratic Coordinated Campaign in 2018, will oversee organizers in Rockingham County. Fifer will be based in the North Country working with organizers in Coos, Grafton, and Carroll counties. Khera will work in Hillsborough County and Arthur-Paratley will be in Cheshire and Sullivan counties, the campaign said."Granite Staters understand that we are in a make-or-break moment and that we urgently need the kinds of bold, new solutions that Pete has called for,” said campaign spokesperson Kevin Donohoe.“From ending gun violence to tackling climate change and the skyrocketing cost of college, Pete is offering a fundamentally new and different approach to the problems plaguing communities across this country.“Our organizers are in every corner of New Hampshire talking about why, in this critical moment for our country and our state, Pete is the candidate who will break with the past and actually confront the problems that Washington has ignored for decades,” Donohoe said.The campaign noted that it hosted 29 watch parties during last Tuesday’s debate and said that since March, 5,534 New Hampshire residents have attended Buttigieg events. The campaign also cited its participation in a day of action supporting Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig’s reelection campaign on July 28.Buttigieg recently released a plan to grow organized labor, increase wages and expand labor rights.