By ALEX MALM

Lisa Morse, a lifelong Warwick resident is the latest candidate to announce intentions to run for state Senate District 31. Morse plans on running as a Republican.

“I’m just a regular person feeling unrepresented,” said Morse during a phone interview last week.

Morse is the fourth candidate to announce for the seat since incumbent Sen. Kendra Anderson announced that she wouldn’t be seeking re-election this fall. Democrats include Rhode Island Black Lives Matter RI PAC executive director Harrison Tuttle, and former Assistant Attorney General Matt LaMountain. John Silvaggio, who ran unsuccessfully in 2020 against Scott Zambarano in the Republican primary has also announced his candidacy.

Morse said that she first registered as a Democrat when she was 18 because her neighbor Linda Sullivan ran for City Council and she wanted to vote for her in the Democratic primary.

About 20 years ago Morse said she became a registered Republican.

Morse became involved with the local party during the 2016 election. She said that the party needed to sign the nomination papers for the different candidates running and Morse and her husband went to the party headquarters to sign the forms.

Now Morse serves as Vice Chair for the Warwick Republican City Committee.

During her time on the Committee she thought about possibly running for a seat and this year decided to try to help serve more people.

“Rhode Islanders are suffering, and we need to help each other,” said Morse.

Morse, 53 graduated from Pilgrim High School and attended CCRI before having kids. She worked at Gregg’s restaurant before having her fifth child. She stayed home to homeschool her children.

While she doesn’t have a formal platform yet, Morse said that she feels Warwick was successful when it was geared towards families.

“I would like Rhode Island to be more like that,” said Morse.

Morse also pointed to reducing taxes and reducing spending as important issues she wants to tackle.

Another issue that Morse pointed to is looking at how to get taxes taken off electricity bills similar to what is done for food. She argued that like food electricity is a necessity and shouldn’t be subject to a tax.

“I would be honored to be in that State House representing regular people,” said Morse.