Candidates file for county offices, NM House seats

With Tuesday being candidate filing day for the primary elections June 7, the following people signed up to run:

Sandoval County:

Commission District 1

• Democrats: Katherine A. Bruch, incumbent, and Paul J. Madrid
• Republican: Jeanette M. Nowers Clark

Commission District 3:

• Democrat: Gregory Deforest Bennett
• Republican: Michael Meek, incumbent

Sandoval County Sheriff

• Democrat: Jesse James Casaus, incumbent
• Republicans: Darrell K. Elder and Patrick Michael Mooney

Sandoval County Assessor

• Democrat: Linda P. Gallegos, incumbent
• Republicans: Richard Shanks and Lawrence D. Griego

Sandoval County Probate Judge

• Democrats: Edward Wayne Lovato, Charles R. Aguilar and Ronnie A. Sisneros
• Republicans: None

Incumbent Charles J. Aguilar, father of Charles R. Aguilar, isn’t running for re-election.

New Mexico House of Representatives:

District 23

• Democrat: Ramon M. Montaño
• Republican: Alan T. Martinez

Incumbent Daymon Ely, a Democrat, isn’t running for re-election.

District 44

• Democrat: Kathleen M. Cates
• Republicans: Jane E. Powdrell-Culbert, incumbent, and Frida Susana Vasquez

District 57

• Democrat: Michelle Eleanor Sandoval
• Republican: Jason Carl Harper, incumbent

District 60

• Democrat: None
• Republican: Joshua Nathaniel Hernandez, incumbent

District 65

• Democrat: Derrick J. Lente, incumbent
• Republican: None

Sandoval County Magistrate Court

Judge, Division 1 (Bernalillo location)

• Democrat: Ann Marie Maxwell-Chavez, incumbent
• Republican: None

Sandoval County Magistrate Judge, Division 2 (Cuba location)

• Democrats: F. Kenneth Eichwald and Benito Aragon

Sandoval County Magistrate Judge, Division 3 (Bernalillo location)

• Democrat: Delilah M. Montaño-Baca
• Republican: None