The field

They shut the door and locked it tight in City Hall's board of elections at 5 p.m. In all, 69 68 69 Democratic and Republican candidates for mayor and City Council filed petitions to get on the May 15 primary ballot. There will be challenges, for sure, and not all of the candidates are guaranteed a spot, but here's a look at all of those running May 15. (Official list as of 5:45 p.m., Tuesday)

• Mayor
• Democrats: Queena Bass, Bob Brady, Dwight Evans, Chaka Fattah, Tom Knox, Michael Nutter and Minister Jesse Jesus White. (He gives out pictures of himself in a crown; I'll try to track one down).
• Republican: Al Taubenberger

• Council At-large
• Democrats (in no particular order): Bill Green, Jesse Brown, Michael Ellis, Milton Street, Benjamin Ramos, Marc Stier, Caryn Hunt, Lorina Marshall-Blake, Rodney Little, Andy Toy, Blondell Reynolds Brown (i), Matt Ruben, Juan Ramos (i), W. Wilson Goode Jr. (i), James Kenney (i), William Greenlee (i), Harry Massele, Derek Green, Sharif Street, Alexander Wilson, Maceo Cummings.
• Republicans: Jack Kelly (i), Phil Kerwick, Patricia A. Mattern, Frank Rizzo (i) (UPDATE: David Oh got his petition in, too)
• First District: Ds: Frank DiCicco (i), Henry Lewandowski, Vern Anastasio; R: Michael Seidenberg
• Second District: Ds: Anna Verna (i), Damon K. Roberts; R: William Black
• Third District: D: Jannie Blackwell (i); R: Keith Hairston Sr.
• Fourth District: Ds: Alfred Sanford, Matt McClure, Curtis Jones, Raymond Bailey, Carol Ann Campbel (i)l; R: Melvin C. Johnakin Jr.
• Fifth District: Ds: Darrell Clarke (i), Haile Johnston, John Longacre; R: None.
• Sixth District: Ds: Joan Krajewski (i); R: Michael Ebsworth.
• Seventh District: Ds: Daniel Savage (i), Maria Quinones-Sanchez, Marnie Aumet-Loughren; R: Gary Grisafi
• Eigth District: Ds: Donna Reed Miller (i), Greg Paulmier, Irv Ackelsberg, Cindy Bass, Maurice Houston; R: None.
• Ninth District: Ds: Cecil Hankins, Raymond Jones, Lamont Thomas, Marian B. Tasco (i); R: None.
• Tenth District: D: Sean Patrick McAleer; R: Brian O'Neill (i)

Comments

[ThomasT]

In a posting to a Phillyblog.com Politics forum post(http://www.phillyblog.com/philly/showpost.php?p=439553&postcount=24) about this list, David Oh states that he has also filed as a Republican for At-Large with 2377 signatures.

Thanks for getting this list out there!

[ThomasT]

"They shut the door and locked it tight in City Hall's board of elections at 5 p.m."

Alex over at Young Philly Politics says that that's not entirely true:

http://youngphillypolitics.com/throw_carol_campbell_ballot

Did you witness this late filing by Carol Campbell?

[Josh Cornfield]

OK, I took a bit of literary license on the locked tight at 5 p.m. thing. It was probably more like 5:11 or so....Those that work in the office reported that Carol Campbell filed her petition before the time I was in the room, from 5 minutes before they locked the door, until 30 minutes afterward.

It was rumored in the hallways that her petition hadn't been filed yet, but her name was on the list of candidates shown to reporters.

[ThomasT]

I've been doing a little Googling to add the candidates that filed that weren't previously on my comprehensive list of city council candidates (http://numsum.com/spreadsheet/show/39877), and it looks like there's a little typo in "Lurina Marshall-Blake" - it's probably Lorina Marshall-Blake, Independence Blue Cross's VP of Government Relations and appointee to a number of state commissions.