State Senate Challengers

Just a little update for the obsessively interested Massachusetts political junkies: these are the first challengers for state senate seats to have officially qualified for the ballot. This means getting signatures verified and filed, and opening a campaign account, and so on. (I'm not listing incumbents; assume they qualify unless I write a post screaming that someone failed to qualify.) Also note that these are updated through Thursday, which is the most recent the Secretary of the Commonwealth had for me.

The earlybirds are:

Shawn Toohey (R), 1st Essex (open)

William Manzi (D), 1st Essex (open)

Michael Barrett (D), 3rd Middlesex (open)

Genevieve Davis (D), Plymouth & Norfolk (Hedlund)

Steve May (D), Plymouth & Norfolk (Hedlund)

Thomas Dooley (R), 1st Suffolk & Middlesex (Petruccelli)

Steven Simonian (R), 2nd Worcester (M. Moore)