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UPDATE @ 5:38 PM:

Tom Villa did not file for the 5th senate district. The game is set with Hubbard, Wright-Jones, and Johnson.

UPDATE 8 @ 4:45PM:

Mike Roberts, Jr., son of millionaire Mike Roberts (of the Roberts Brothers), has filed for state rep against Rachel Storch.

UPDATE 7 @ 4:40PM:

Connie Johnson has filed for state senate, joining Rodney Hubbard and Robin Wright-Jones.

UPDATE 6:

Activist and former police board commissioner Khatib Waheed has filed to run against 26th Ward committeeman Joe Palm.

And Chris Carter will be doing battle with Curtis Royston on two fronts — for state rep and now also for Royston’s committeeman post.

UPDATE 5:

Daniel Schesch has filed against longtime Treasurer Larry Williams.

Former State Rep and Alderman O. L. Shelton has filed for committeeman in the 4th Ward.

Chad Beffa, who is also running for state rep, has filed for committeeman in the 10th Ward. As reported earlier, Chad’s ally, fellow SLPS advocate Nicholas Clement, also filed for committeeman today in the 13th.

UPDATE 4:

Doubling his bets. Looks like Alderman Freeman Bosley, Sr. isn’t taking any chances. Just in case his first committeeman candidate’s tax issues aren’t cleared up, he filed a backup (Johnnie Saddler) today.

UPDATE 3:

Damn, those Ron Paul guys are tenacious!

Looks like the Paulies are making a play to take over the Republican Party in St. Louis City. Word is that several Paul supporters have filed for open Republican committeeman and committeewoman posts across the city today. Developing…

UPDATE 2:

Speaking of Connie Johnson, a third candidate has filed for her soon-to-be-vacated House seat. Anthony Bell, a former 3rd Ward alderman candidate, filed this afternoon, joining 27th Ward Committeeman Curtis Royston and Chris Carter, nephew of Alderman Greg Carter.

UPDATE 1:

In the 5th Ward, Committeeman (and state senate candidate*) Rodney Hubbard filed for re-election this afternoon. And his sister, Tammika Hubbard, filed for committeewoman. The incumbent committeewoman, Cheryl Nelson, is not seeking re-election.

In the 13th Ward, St. Louis Public Schools teacher and advocate Nick Clement has filed to run for committeeman. The incumbent, Fred Steffen, had not yet filed as of this report HAS FILED for re-election.

In the 21st Ward, after much speculation, it finally became official: PubDef.net publisher Antonio French is running for committeeman. Filing as his running-mate, Mrs. Laura Keys, a longtime friend and aide of French’s grandmother, former Committeeman Myrtle French (who passed away last year), is running to become the northside ward’s new committeewoman.

IN THE RUMOR MILL:

Rumor has it that Jerryl Christmas, an aide to U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, has been making calls encouraging support for attorney Hope Whitehead to run against Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce. Christmas ran against Joyce twice and lost both times by large margins. Joyce’s re-election kickoff a couple of months ago saw most of the city’s elected officials (north, south and central) already pledging their support and adding their names to Joyce’s extraordinarily long host committee.

Rumor also has it that State Rep. Connie Johnson has been fantasizing about becoming the next senator of the 5th District. There are currently two candidates in the race: frontrunner Rodney Hubbard, who has already scored several key endorsements (including Congressman Lacy Clay, Aldermanic President Lewis Reed, and Lic. Collector Mike McMillan) and raised nearly $130,000; and state rep Robin Wright-Jones. A third candidate, Rep. Tom Villa, has long been thought as a possible candidate. His election would mean the City of St. Louis would have an all-white senate delegation for the first time in 50 years.

EARLIER STORY:

It’s time to put up or shut up.

Anyone running for office has to make their intentions known, loud and proud, by 5 p.m. today. At PubDef.net we’re expecting a flurry of late filings. The Post-Dispatch is reporting that statewide 60 of the 163 feature one candidate running unopposed. In the state senate only four seats are uncontested.

Jason Rosenbaum with the Columbia Tribune’s Political Blog is posing all sorts of questions about what the 5 p.m. filing deadline will foreshadow for the governor’s race and state elected offices.

Will Reps. Tom Villa, D-St. Louis, and/or Connie Johnson, D-St. Louis, jump into the race to replace Senate Minority Leader Maida Coleman, D-St. Louis?

Will oodles of Democratic incumbents in Jefferson County, St. Louis City, Kansas City and elsewhere go without opponents? Will Republicans in southern Missouri get passes for another two years?

These “Unsolved Mysteries” as well as a host of other election questions will be answered tonight. Stay tuned!

*Hubbard is a client (campaign management) of PubDef publisher Antonio D. French.