<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv421515812"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="bodyDrftID" class=""><tbody><tr><td id="drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;"><div id="yiv1356607445"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="bodyDrftID" class=""><tbody><tr><td id="drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;"><div id="yiv1570300593"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="bodyDrftID" class=""><tbody><tr><td id="drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><h1><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">I feel lucky that I got to meet, record and photograph Granny D when she came to Maine. What a gal!</span></span></font></h1><h1><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">latimes.com</span></span></font></h1><h2><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">Doris Haddock, activist and
Senate candidate 'Granny D,' dies at 100</span></span></font></h2><h3><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">At age 89, the New Hampshire woman walked across the U.S. to push campaign finance reform. She ran for public office at 94.</span></span></font></h3><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Associated Press</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">March 11, 2010</font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for the U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100.<br><br>Haddock
died Tuesday night of chronic respiratory illness at her home in Dublin, N.H., said family friend and Haddock spokeswoman Maude Salinger. <br><br>In 1999 and 2000, </font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/01/news/mn-4181"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Haddock walked 3,200 miles</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> to draw attention to campaign finance reform. In 2004, at age 94, </font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/05/nation/na-granny5"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">she ran for U.S. Senate</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> against Republican Judd Gregg. The subtitle of her autobiography, written with Dennis Burke, was "You're Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell."<br><br>"Her age
wasn't a factor in what she did," Salinger said. "She never gave
up. Until the end, she advocated for public funding. She . . . wanted people to know that democracy and government belongs to us."<br><br>Haddock was born Jan. 24, 1910, in Laconia, N.H., and attended Emerson College before marrying James Haddock. She later worked at a shoe company for 20 years.<br><br>After retiring in 1972, Haddock became more </font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.Grannyd.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">active in community affairs</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">. She became interested in campaign finance reform after the defeat of the first attempt of Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) to remove unregulated "soft" money from campaigns in 1995. Then she decided on a cross-country trek from Pasadena to Washington, D.C.<br><br>"Sometimes, I think it was a fool's errand, but I think there are more people in
this country who know what
campaign finance reform means since I started," she said in February 2000.<br><br>Starting on New Year's Day in 1999 and covering about 10 miles a day, Haddock walked across more than 1,000 miles of desert, climbed the Appalachian Range in blizzard conditions and even skied 100 miles after snowfall made roadside walking impossible. <br><br>When she made her way along California 62 near Twentynine Palms, she marveled, "The weather is divine, the mountains are a wonder, rising out of nowhere, and the blue sky is always with you here."<br><br>In 2004, Haddock jumped into the Senate race on the last day to file after the presumptive Democratic nominee dropped out when his campaign manager was accused of financial fraud. A few months before the election, she officially changed her name to "Granny D" but stressed that the "D" stood for "Doris," not her party affiliation. She lost to Gregg 66% to 34%.<br><br>Recently she was working on a new book, "My
Bohemian Century," which focused on her college days and her Senate campaign and was expected to be published this spring.<br><br>In her new book's dedication, Haddock offers readers advice: "You have to keep the young adventurer inside your heart alive long enough for it to someday re-emerge. It may take some coaxing and some courage, but that person is in you always -- never growing old." <br><br></font><a rel="nofollow"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">news.obits@latimes.com</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br><br></font></p></div><p class="copyright"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Copyright © 2010, </font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica,
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