Doris Haddock, aka Granny D, is an eighty-nine-year-old woman who is walking across America to bring the issue of campaign finance reform to as many states as she can. We will continue to chronicle her journey. She hopes to arrive in Washington, D.C. on Leap Day, February 29.

Granny D: “This is Granny D, and I’m on Route 40, which is the first national highway that was ever built. It was built for General Braddock by Colonel Washington to fight the French in Pittsburgh. Today is twenty-one-degrees cold and one inch of snow. I shall be walking probably ten miles, and it’s in Addison, Pennsylvania, just south of Pittsburgh on the Mason-Dixon Line. I’m walking across the country because I feel that today a man has to sell his soul to the corporation or the union in order to run or he has to be a multi-millionaire, and I want to leave a country that’s all by and for the people for my great-grandchildren and all the children in this country.”