Candidates file for U.S. House, Senate races

Three New Mexicans who had previously announced their candidacies for federal offices didn’t file to run on Tuesday, putting an end to their short-lived campaigns.

Democrat Lehland Lehrman and Republican Tom Benavides, who had announced their candidacies for U.S. Senate, failed to file and gave no indication of why they hadn’t collected the signatures to get on the ballot. Republican Bob Cornelius, who had announced his candidacy for the Second Congressional District House seat, announced shortly before Tuesday’s 5 p.m. filing deadline that he was ending his campaign.

In dropping out, Cornelius endorsed Terry Marquardt, one of 28 Democrats and Republicans who did file on Tuesday to run this year for one of New Mexico’s four open seats in Congress – one in the Senate and three in the House. There were no other surprises on filing day. Here’s the list of those who filed to run:

U.S. Senate

Democrats
Tom Udall, U.S. representative

Republicans
Steve Pearce, U.S. representative
Heather Wilson, U.S. representative

First Congressional District

Democrats
Martin Heinrich, former Albuquerque city councilor
Michelle Lujan-Grisham, former state health secretary
Robert Pidcock, Albuquerque attorney
Rebecca Vigil-Giron, former secretary of state
Jessica Wolfe, former cabinet aide to Gov. Bill Richardson

Republicans
Joe Carraro, state senator
Darren White, Bernalillo County sheriff

Second Congressional District

Democrats
Al Kissling, retired Presbyterian pastor
Bill McCamley, Doña Ana County commissioner
Frank McKinnon, Roswell businessman and retired teacher
Harry Teague, former Lea County commissioner

Republicans
Aubrey Dunn Jr., rancher and retired banker
C. Earl Greer, former Sierra County GOP chair
Terry Marquardt, former state representative
Monty Newman, Hobbs mayor
Greg Sowards, owner of several Las Cruces daycare centers
Ed Tinsley, restaurant-chain owner and rancher

Third Congressional District

Democrats
Jon Adams, attorney
Ben R. Luján, Public Regulation Commission chairman
Rudy Martin, Dixon attorney
Harry Montoya, Santa Fe County commissioner
Benny Shendo Jr., former cabinet secretary for the state’s Indian Affairs Department
Don Wiviott, green builder

Republicans
Marco Gonzales, attorney
Daniel East, Rio Rancho contractor

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