Lawless to walk 100 campaign miles

PROVIDENCE - Most political campaigns involve walking the district, but Jennifer Lawless's walk will take place on pavement and online. Lawless, who's running for James R. Langevin's U.S. House seat, will walk the district's 20 communities in a continuous, 100-mile route starting Tuesday. Anyone interested can track her progress online at www.lawlessforcongress.com.

Lawless will walk during daylight hours, stopping to talk to pedestrians, people pumping gas, and people dining in restaurants, picking up where she left off the day before and covering the entire route on foot, except for the ferry ride to Block Island. She anticipates completing the route by January 26, when she begins teaching spring semester classes at Brown University, where she is a political science professor.

Lawless's walk starts Tuesday on Anan Wade Road in Glocester, and continues through Foster, Scituate, Johnston, Providence, Cranston, Warwick, West Warwick, Coventry, West Greenwich, East Greenwich, North Kingstown, Exeter, Richmond, Hopkinton, Westerly, Charlestown, South Kingstown, New Shoreham, and Narragansett.

This article, written by Elizabeth Gudrais, appeared on January 13, 2006, in the Providence Journal.