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other option to incumbent politicians. She hoped to get votes without raising corporate money. She wanted to show people her own age that they didn’t have to wait around for someone else to fix things. If she could inspire some peo- ple, if she could make a difference, that would be a success. “If you want to see change happen,”


Pettigrew had told friends, “do it your- self, because it’s not going to happen otherwise.” Despite the pressure of the cam-


paign trail, Pettigrew made time for triathlon training. She was up and out of her mother’s house before dawn on the morning of Sept. 19 for a bike ride. She had often complained to friends in Miami how terrible the city was for bik- ers and praised the trails and bike lanes in Maryland. She set out on one of those bike lanes


along Route 202 in Largo. At 5:30 a.m., a Cadillac Escalade crashed into her; the driver didn’t realize she’d hit a per- son until she got home. Pettigrew died two days later, just five weeks before Election Day. An investigation is ongo- ing, according to police. When Pettigrew died, her Facebook


page filled up with notes from voters promising to write her name onto the ballot. Her mother stepped in to finish out her daughter’s campaign. “She had already won the race,” Henry said. “I just had to make the sprint to the finish line. That was the least I could do.” Henry received 20,717 votes — just


over 1 percent, but a win in her mind. On Election Day, a man approached a Green Party pollster and said Petti- grew’s story had inspired him to vote outside his party for the first time in his life. “We collectively completed what she set out to do,” Henry said. Now Henry has taken on a new chal-


lenge: pushing the Maryland General Assembly to adopt stronger safety laws to protect bicyclists and pushing for tough- er penalties for drivers who hit them. It’s exactly what Pettigrew would have done — worked to fix the problem.


Melissa Bell is a Washington Post staff writer and can be reached at bellm@ washpost.com.


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