More filings in area races

From the top of the ticket down, the Aug. 17 primary ballot got longer Wednesday as congressional and county races began to fill up.

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, has six challengers filed against her, and that’s without any of the big-name Republicans officially in the race yet. U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers filed for another two years in Eastern Washington’s 5th District, and so did two announced challengers.

The Spokane County prosecuting attorney’s race also grew to four candidates with the addition of Jim Reierson, an attorney who lives in Spokane and works as a deputy prosecutor in Kootenai County. Reierson, who ran for the job four years ago as a Democrat, filed this year preferring “the Law & Order Party.”

Here’s a list of candidates who filed Tuesday and Wednesday for positions on Spokane-area ballots, and their party preference. Candidates who filed on Monday are included on a master list posted at www.spokesman.com/blogs/spincontrol/:

Congressional

U.S Senate: William Chovill, Republican; Mike the Mover, Democratic

U.S. House, 5th District: Clyde Cordero, Democratic; Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Republican; Randall Yearout, Constitution

Legislative

3rd District House Pos. 2: Timm Ormsby, Democratic

4th District House Pos. 1: Larry Crouse, Republican

6th District Senate: Mike Baumgartner, Republican; Chris Marr, Democratic

House Pos. 1: Kevin Parker, Republican

7th District Senate: Bob Morton, Republican

House Pos. 2: Joel Kretz, Republican

Spokane County

Commissioner District 3: Bonnie Mager, Democratic

Assessor: Vicki Horton, Republican; Andrew Jackson, Democratic

Auditor: Vicky Dalton, Democratic

Clerk: Thomas Fallquist, Republican

Prosecuting Attorney: Jim Reierson, Law & Order; Dave Stevens, Republican

Judicial

State Supreme Court Pos. 1: Jim Johnson; Stan Rumbaugh

Pos. 5: Barbara Madsen

Pos. 6: Richard Sanders

District Court: Pos. 6 Debra Hayes