PROVIDENCE -- The spokeswoman for Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts is stepping down.

Larkin Barker, 23, told Political Scene today that she has taken a job with Barack Obama's New Hampshire campaign. This is her last full week in Roberts' State House office. She starts in New Hampshire July 15.

"I just think this is going to be the most monumental campaign of my lifetime," she said. "And I just thought it was an incredible opprotunity I couldn’t pass up."

Barker will serve as the deputy communications director for the New Hampshire campaign. She joins another Ocean State political figure -- U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's chief of staff, Mindy Myers, who took a leave of absence earlier in the month to run state operations for Obama in New Hampshire.

Barker and Myers previously worked together on Whitehouse's campaign team.

While small, the contest for New Hampshire's four electoral votes could be interesting. The Granite State will likely be the only battleground state in New England.

It's unclear who will replace Barker, who said she's not currently planning to return to Rhode Island after the election. The Minnesota native went to George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and said she'd like to return to the nation's capital.

-- Steve Peoples, Journal State House bureau