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33 file to seek elective office
Candidates running in Sept. 14 primary election
(Published July 12, 2004)

Two ward councilmen and the District’s delegate to Congress face no opposition in their bids to gain the Democratic Party nomination to seek re-election in November.

One of the councilmen, Adrian Fenty, so far has a clear field to winning re-election in Ward 4. Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton will face what is widely believed to be only token opposition from outside their party on Nov. 2.

The three are among 33 candidates who filed nominating petitions with the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics by the 5 p.m. deadline on July 7 to seek election to eight city offices on the fall ballot.

Winners of the Democratic, Republican and D.C. Statehood Green primaries on Sept. 14 will carry their respective political party’s banner in the November election, when voters will elect a delegate to the House of Representatives, a "shadow" U.S. representative, two at-large city council members, and council members to represent Wards 2, 4, 7 and 8. Independent candidates and those representing minor political parties have until Aug. 25 to file nominating petitions to get their names on the November ballot.

D.C. law allows the validity of signatures on primary candidates’ nominating petitions to be challenged during a 10-day period that began July 10. Election officials have 15 days after a challenge is filed to determine whether a candidate’s name will appear on the ballot. Individuals who turn in the required number of valid petition signatures and whose petitions are not challenged are certified as candidates at the end of the 10-day challenge period.

The following candidates have filed petitions to run in the Democratic primary:

• DELEGATE—Eleanor Holmes Norton (incumbent).
• AT-LARGE COUNCIL—Alvin Bethea, Harold Brazil (incumbent), Sam Brooks, Kwame Brown.
• WARD 2 COUNCIL—Jack Evans (incumbent).
• WARD 4 COUNCIL—Adrian Fenty (incumbent).
• WARD 7 COUNCIL—Kevin P. Chavous (incumbent), Donna Daniels, Vincent C. Gray, Almetia Hairston-Hamilton, Mary D. Jackson, James Johnson, Steven E. Pettus.
• WARD 8 COUNCIL—Sandy Allen (incumbent), Marion Barry, William O. Lockridge, Jacque Patterson, R. Joyce Scott, Sandra "S.S." Seegars, Frank Sewell, Leon J. Swain Jr.
• U.S. REPRESENTATIVE (shadow)—Susana Baranano, Ray Browne (incumbent).

The following candidates have filed nominating petitions to run in the Republican primary:

• DELEGATE—Michael A. Monroe.
• AT-LARGE COUNCIL—Don Folden Sr., Robert Pittman, Carol Schwartz (incumbent).
• WARD 7 COUNCIL—Jerod Tolson.

The following candidates have filed nominating petitions to run in the D.C. Statehood Green primary:

• AT-LARGE COUNCIL—Laurent Ross.
• WARD 2 COUNCIL—Jay H. Marx.
• WARD 7 COUNCIL—Michele Tingling-Clemmons.
• U.S. REPRESENTATIVE (shadow)—Adam Eidinger.