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Barrett is one third of the way through an eastward walk through the state. Equipped with three sets of sneakers to protect his blistering feet, and trailed by a red and blue school bus to carry campaign aides, Barrett yesterday walked through Fast Hampton. He will arrive on the state's Atlantic Coast in about three weeks...
Barrett started his walk 11 days ago along the New York border in Williamstown, according to campaign spokesperson Kenneth A. Bamberger '90. His zig zag tour has proceeded through North Adams south to Pittsfield, and from there north up the Connecticut River Valley. He is scheduled to arrive in Amherst today...
Barrett makes the walk in three pairs of New Balance sneakers, which are manufactured in his district. The campaign bought the school bus, Bamberger says, for $1000 earlier this year, painted it and fixed it up for the road. The vehicle says "Barrett '94" on the sides and reads on the back, "I'm running for 0governor can we talk...
Bamberger says the walk was inspired by a similar trek made by Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles in 1970, when he was an obscure state senator running for the U.S. Senate in the Sunshine State, Chiles...
...government make irrational decisions for children to suffer and be condemned." She wants to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. "They're going to walk away just like Michigan did and say, 'Wish we could have done something but there's nothing to do because our laws dictate otherwise.' I wonder if they could take their little two-year-old kids and walk into a black forest and just leave the child and walk away . . . And not feel the pain . . . How not to feel the pain...