The filing deadline for running in the 2008 election cycle isn’t until March, but many candidates have gotten an early start with the paperwork. The list below is not unlike a ballot of the future, except no one citizen would be able to vote in all 60 state representative contests. The list below contains mostly incumbents and primary fights in open seats. You’ll rarely find an incumbent and a challenger in any of these contests–the challengers are probably counting on some element of surprise. Or, perhaps in the Republicans’ case, they just can’t find anybody to run!
The Boundary will try to post this list every month or so to show progress on the filings and evolution in the contests.
Here’s the actual filings as of noon today (October 24, 2007):
United States Senator
David Loera (D), Roger Obrist (D), Pavel Goberman (D), Candy Neville (D)
Representative in Congress – First District
Mark Welyczko (D)
Attorney General
Greg Macpherson (D)^, John Kroger (D)^
Secretary of State
Vicki Walker (D), Brad Avakian (D)^, Kate Brown (D)^
State Treasurer
Ben Westlund (D)^
State Senator – Fifth District
Joanne Verger (D), incumbent
State Senator – Ninth District
Sarah Arcune (R), Bob McDonald (D)
State Senator – Fourteenth District
Mark Hass (D)
State Senator – Nineteenth District
Richard Devlin (D)^, incumbent
State Senator – Twenty-First District
Diane Rosenbaum (D)
State Senator – Twenty-Third District
Jackie Dingfelder (D)
State Senator – Twenty-Fifth District
Laurie Monnes Anderson (D), incumbent
State Senator – Twenty-Seventh District
Chris Telfer (R)^
State Senator, Twenty-Eighth District
Doug Whitsett (R), incumbent
State Representative – First District
Wayne Krieger (R), incumbent
State Representative – Second District
Tim J. Freeman (R), Mike Ward (D)
State Representative – Third District
Ron Maurer (R), incumbent
State Representative – Fourth District
Ronald Schultz (R), Dennis Richardson (R), incumbent
State Representative – Seventh District
Bruce Hanna (R), incumbent
State Representative – Eighth District
Paul Holvey (D), incumbent
State Representative – Ninth District
Arnie Roblan (D), incumbent
State Representative – Tenth District
Jean Cowan (D), incumbent
State Representative – Twelfth District
E. Terry Beyer (D), incumbent
State Representative – Fifteenth District
Andy Olson (R), incumbent
State Representative – Seventeenth District
Fred Girod (R), incumbent, Dan Thackaberry (D), Steven H. Frank (D)
State Representative – Eighteenth District
Vic Gilliam (R), incumbent
State Representative – Nineteenth District
Kevin Cameron (R), incumbent
State Representative, Twenty-Second District
Betty Komp (D), incumbent
State Representative, Twenty-Fourth District
Jim Weidner (R)
State Representative, Twenty-Fifth District
Kim Thatcher (R), incumbent
State Representative, Twenty-Sixth District
Matt Wingard (R)
State Representative, Twenty-Seventh District
Tobias Read (D), incumbent
State Representative, Twenty-Eighth District
Jeff Barker (D), incumbent
State Representative, Twenty-Ninth District
Chuck Riley (D), incumbent
State Representative, Thirtieth District
David Edwards (D), incumbent
State Representative, Thirty-First District
Brad Witt (D), incumbent
State Representative, Thirty-Second District
Deborah Boone (D), incumbent
State Representative, Thirty-Third District
Mitch Greenlick (D), incumbent
State Representative, Thirty-Fourth District
Suzanne Bonamici (D), incumbent
State Representative, Thirty-Fifth District
Larry Galizio (D), incumbent
State Representative, Thirty-Seventh District
Scott Bruun (R), incumbent
State Representative, Thirty-Eighth District
Linda Brown (D)
State Representative, Forty-First District
Carolyn Tomei (D), incumbent
State Representative, Forty-Second District
Regan Gray (D), Gordon Hillesland (D), Teddy Keizer (D), Albert Kaufman (D)^, Jules Kopel Bailey (D)^
State Representative, Forty-Third District
Chip Shields (D), incumbent
State Representative, Forty-Fifth District
Jon Coney (D), Michael Dembrow (D), Cyreena Boston (D)
State Representative, Forty-Sixth District
Ben Cannon (D), incumbent
State Representative, Forty-Seventh District
Jefferson Smith (D)^
State Representative, Forty-Eighth District
Mike Schaufler (D), incumbent
State Representative, Forty-Ninth District
Nick Kahl (D), Barbara Kyle (D)
State Representative, Fiftieth District
Bob Sherwin (D)
State Representative, Fifty-First District
Allen Taylor (D)^, Brett Barton (D)^
State Representative, Fifty-Third District
Gene Whisnant (R), incumbent
State Representative, Fifty-Fourth District
Chuck Burley (R), incumbent
State Representative, Fifty-Fifth District
George Gilman (R), incumbent
State Representative, Fifty-Sixth District
Bill Garrard (R), incumbent
State Representative, Fifty-Eighth District
Bob Jenson (R), incumbent
State Representative, Fifty-Ninth District
John Huffman (R), incumbent
State Representative, Sixtieth District
Cliff Bentz (R), Tim K. Smith (R), Dean Strommer (R)
^indicates candidate who has formed 2008 candidate committee for fundraising purposes but has not yet filed formal candidacy with the Secretary of State.
Wow, that picture of a ballot in Michigan is fascinating. They can fill in one box and vote straight party!? I remember way back in high school civics that countries with a proportional parliamentary representation system voted for a party slate like that, but I didn’t think we did it anywhere in America. Maybe it’s the independent streak in me, but I couldn’t imagine voting for the party and not the candidate. I wonder if they (Michigan voters) have less cross-over votes than we do in Oregon because of the “straight-party” option. I also wonder what would happen if someone marked their ballot for a “straight Democratic-party ballot” option and they voted for a candidate down ballot that was a Green (or Lib, NAV, Rep, etc.) Party member. Would the ballot be thrown out or just that race thrown out? Or would the actual vote in the specific race override the “straight party” vote?
Ahhhhh, am I missing something or are you saying the Steve Novick and Jeff Merkley have not both filed for the 2008 Ballot for United States Senator?
lestatdelc,
You’re not missing anything. They’ve both filed to run at the federal level, but haven’t set up at the state level yet. This is probably true of a large number of candidates, especially for higher offices where there may be a number of regulatory requirements.
JTT,
I don’t know anything about the Michigan system (though my boss probably does). I thought that ballot looked cool though (whoa…I just out-wonked myself).
John Kroger?
Nothing looks cool with Bush & Cheney written on it.
Aw crap! I just de-cooled my comment!
We are going to see more candidates file. I’ve looked at it myself because I think we deserve a much better government. I’m a Democrat who thinks we need to continue with smart, progressive environmental protection.
Regarding this:
>>Wow, that picture of a ballot in Michigan is fascinating. They can fill in one box and vote straight party!? I remember way back in high school civics that countries with a proportional parliamentary representation system voted for a party slate like that, but I didn’t think we did it anywhere in America. <<
I was an elementary school student in Michigan back so long ago that IKE was president. Before they removed the voting machines (larger than telephone booths) from the library or wherever they had been on Election Day, the elem. students were brought in one class at a time and shown what a voting machine was like.
These were the old line machines (forget modern ideas like proportional voting, think old Daley machine Chicago type machines)where the person stepped into the booth, pulled the curtain, and then voted. They could flip individual levers (very analog mechanical levers) if they wanted to vote split ticket.
OR, the voter could just decide to vote the party. In that case, they’d just look at the top of the ballot, choose the party, and pull a single lever which flipped all the indiv. levers below it.
When the voter pulled the curtain pull on the inside of the booth to open the curtain, that cleared the board for the next voter, supposedly to keep the vote private.
The way the Chicago voting finally got the political machine in trouble was a little window in the back of the booth with little analog numbers rolling over. Whenever the curtain opened, the little numbers would show if it had been a Democratic or Republican (or split, I suppose) vote. People from the old Daley machine were caught watching the way the numbers turned and then keeping track of who walked out of the booth–if it was someone who had promised to vote one way and the numbers showed someone else, that’s when political machine peer pressure took over.
This is where the terms “straight ticket” and “split ticket” come from. As in people a couple generations older than I am who were very proud to always vote straight party ticket of their chosen party.
Wasn’t Devlin re-elected in 2006? I don’t think SD 19 is up in 2008. Would explain why he hasn’t yet filed.