Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Today was the filing deadline for candidates for state office. They had until 5:00 p.m. to file. The Arizona Secretary of State web site was updated at 6:47 p.m.
There are several names who did not make the earlier SWAG list who filed today. There were some surprises. There may be independents qualified that I have not yet verified. The legislative districts are limited to Baja Arizona.
UPDATE: The only "independent" I find filed is Doug Quelland in the new LD 20. There may be write-in candidates on the primary ballot but I do not find them listed at the SoS web site at this time.
UPDATE: SoS last update May 31 at 11:15 a.m.
Filed candidates have a 
after their name.
CD 8 Special Election (to complete the term of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) June 12th:
Ron Barber (D)
Jesse Kelly (R)
Charlie Manolakis (GRN)
U.S. Senate
Richard Carmona (D)
David Ruben (D) withdrew after petition challenge
Luis Acle, Jr. (R)
Wilford "Wil" Cardon (R)
Jeff Flake (R)
Bryan Hackbarth (R)
Claire Van Steenwyke (R)
John Jeffrey Lyon (Tea Party)
Sheila Bilyeu (LIB)
Michael Meyer (IND)
Ian Gilyeat (IND)
U.S. House
New District 1
Wenona Benally Baldenegro (D)
Ann Kirkpatrick (D)
Miguel Olivas (D)
Patrick Gatti (R)
Gaither Martin (R)
Jonathan Paton (R)
Doug Wade (R)
Anthony Prowell (LIB)
New District 2 – expect changes after June 12 Special Election
Ron Barber (D)
Matt Heinz (D)
Nomiki Konst (D)
Frank Antenori (R)
Jesse Kelly (R)
Mark Koskiniemi (R)
Martha McSally (R)
Dave Sitton (R)
Charlie Manokalis (GRN)
New District 3
Raúl Grijalva (D) – Inc. (CD 7)
Amanda Aguirre (D)
Juan Manuel "Manny" Arreguin (D)
David Crowe (D) – withdrew
Gabriela Saucedo Mercer (R)
Jaime Alfredo Vasquez (R)
Blanca Guerra (LIB)
New District 4
Mikel Weisser (D)
Johnnie Robinson (D)
Paul Gosar (R) – Inc. (CD 1)
Paul Babeu (R) – withdrew
Ron Gould (R)
Michael Hernan (R)
Rick Murphy (R)
Joe Pamelia (LIB)
New District 5
Spencer Morgan (D)
Kirk Adams (R)
Matt Salmon (R)
New District 6
Matthew Jette (D)
Walter John Williamson (D)
Russell W. Jenna III (R)
Ben Quayle (R) – Inc. (CD 3)
David Schweikert (R) – Inc. (CD 5)
Jack Anderson (LIB)
Justin Winters (IND)
New District 7
Ed Pastor (D) – Inc. (CD 4)
Rebecca DeWitt (D)(Former GRN)
Joe Cobb (LIB)
Jose Penalosa (IND)(former Republican)
New District 8
Gene Scharer (D)
Trent Franks (R) – Inc. (CD 2)
Charles R. Black (R)
Tony Passalacqua (R)
Stephen Dolgos (Amer. Elect)
New District 9
Andrei Cherny (D)
David Schapira (D)
Kirsten Sinema (D)
Lisa Borowsky (R)
Travis Grantham (R)
Vernon Parker (R)
Wendy Rogers (R)
Leah Campos Schandlbauer (R)
Martin Sepulvada (R)
Jeff Thompson (R)
Arizona Legislature
NEW
LD 2 Linda Lopez, Senate (D)
LD 2 Sal Baldenegro, Jr., House (D) withdrew
LD 2 Andrea Dalessandro, House (D)
LD 2 Rosanna Gabaldon, House (D)
LD 2 John Ackerley, House (R)
LD 2 Albert Jordan, House (IND)
NEW
LD 3 Olivia Cajero Bedford, Senate (D)
LD 3 Maria De La Luz Garcia, Senate (D)
LD 3 Sally Ann Gonzales, House (D)
LD 3 Macario Saldate, House (D)
NEW
LD 4 Margaret Lynne Pancrazi, Senate (D)
LD 4 Juan Carlos "J.C." Escamilla, House (D)
LD 4 Charlene Fernandez, House (D)
LD 4 Lisa Otondo, House (D)
NEW
LD 8 Barbara McGuire, Senate (D)
LD 8 Terri Kibler, Senate (R)
LD 8 Joe Ortiz, Senate (R)
LD 8 George Arredondo (D)
LD 8 Ernest Bustamante, House (D)
LD 8 Emily Verdugo, House (D)
LD 8 Frank Pratt, House (R)
LD 8 Thomas Shope, House (R)
LD 8 Dean Dill, House (LIB)
NEW
LD 9 Steve Farley, Senate (D)
LD 9 Tyler Mott, Senate (R)
LD 9 Dustin Cox, House (D)
LD 9 Mohur Sarah Sidhwa, House (D)
LD 9 Victoria Steele, House (D)
LD 9 Ethan Orr, House (R)
NEW
LD 10 David Bradley, Senate (D)
LD 10 Frank Antenori, Senate (R)
LD 10 Richard Lundstrom, Senate (Other)
LD 10 Brandon Patrick, House (D)
LD 10 Stefanie Mach, House (D)
LD 10 Bruce Wheeler, House (D)
LD 10 Todd Clodfelter, House (R)
LD 10 Ted Vogt, House (R)
NEW
LD 11 Jo Holt, Senate (D)
LD 11 Al Melvin, Senate (R)
LD 11 Kim Allen, Senate (LIB)
LD 11 Dave Joseph, House (D)
LD 11 Adam Kwasman, House (R)
LD 11 Steve Smith, House (R)
NEW
LD 14 Patricia Fleming, Senate (D)
LD 14 Gail Griffin, Senate (R)
LD 14 Robert Leach, House (D)
LD 14 Mark Stonebraker, House (D)
LD 14 Brian Abbott, House (R)
LD 14 David Gowan, House (R)
LD 14 Peggy Judd, House (R)
LD 14 David Stevens, House (R)
Corporation Commission
Marcia Busching (D)
Sandra Kennedy (D)
Paul Newman (D)
Bob Burns (R)
Susan Bitter Smith (R)
Bob Stump (R)
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Independents do not appear on the primary list, but on the general election list. Two more independents have been added today. http://www.azsos.gov/election/2012/general/IndependentCandidates.htm
The only “independent” I find filed is Doug Quelland in the new LD 20
He’s not listed on the S.O.S. website
It turns out that this morning, the Secretary of State’s office acknowledged its error in leaving Mikel Weisser off the list of Congressional candidates. He had filed on Tuesday and they apparently misplaced the paperwork.
Perhaps they were too busy trying to get the President’s birth certificate.
Just one more thing, as Lt. Colombo would say: Mikel Weisser seems to think he successfully filed as a Democrat in AZ-04: http://mikelweisser.blogspot.com/2012/05/weisser-campaign-files-and-is-certified.html
But as you’ve correctly taken your checkmarks from the Elections website, you can see he’s not there.
Good point about changes to AZ-02 after the June AZ-08 special election. By the way, do you recall that great Frank Loesser musical “Where’s Charley?”
It’s good that Democrats have filed in all nine congressional districts so that people like Trent Franks will at least have nominal opposition in November (I’m assuming he’ll win the primary handily). Our Americans Elect Party, essentially a collection of independents, apparently got someone, Stephen Dolgos, to use the ballot line to run against Franks along with Democrat Gene Scharer (a frequent candidate whose views are closer to my own).
You’ll note that no Green candidates have filed to run for Congress by petition, and if you go to the legislature, only two Green candidates have filed. In 2010 there were more, but of course they sued the majority of us for trying to get on the ballot. That has a tendency to discourage candidates. Anthony Prowell in AZ-01 wrote me earlier this year about running on the Green Party, but I see he filed as Libertarian.
As for U.S. Senate Libertarian candidate Sheila Bilyeau, she has run as Green Party candidate for President (a lot of nutjobs do that, I hear), an Independent candidate for the Senate from Oklahoma in 2004, a candidate in the Texas Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1986, and is best known, according to internet sources for this: “Over the past 20 years, she has filed numerous lawsuits against the federal government — all dismissed by the courts — in which she demanded the removal of a secret radio transmitter that the military purportedly planted in her head sometime in the 1970s. She has told reporters that the device mostly sends her negative messages that are critical of her. In one lawsuit, Bilyeu claimed that President Clinton had ordered her ‘gassed’ and had stolen her dog.” I would strongly suggest that someone might want to examine her petitions. And if she does get on the ballot and in the debate, I strongly suggest that Dr. Carmona might want to examine her head.