Second candidate enters race for PUD board

A second candidate has entered the race for a seat on the Skagit Public Utility District Board of Commissioners.

Spencer Roozen entered the race Thursday to challenge PUD Commissioner Andrew Miller for his District 1 seat.

Thursday was the fourth day of the five-day filing period for the Nov. 3 general election.

The filing period will be open through 5 p.m. Friday.

Races with three or more candidates will be on the ballot for the Aug. 4 primary election, while those with one or two candidates will go straight to the general election.

As of 5:30 p.m. Thursday, two others had filed to run for office Thursday in races that will be on Skagit County ballots.

Also filing to run was a candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and a candidate for a seat in the state House of Representatives.

Edwin Feller of Lynden joins what is now a four-candidate race for the Congressional District 2 seat in the U.S. House.

Feller joins incumbent Rick Larsen, Tomas Scheel and Raymond Pelletti.

Larsen and Scheel are Democrats, and Feller and Pelletti are Republicans.

Joseph Segault of Eastsound joined what is now a three-candidate race for the state 40th Legislative District Position 2 seat in the state House.

He will face incumbent Alex Ramel and Monte Mahan in the primary.

Ramel is a Democrat, Mahan an Independent, and Segault states no party preference.

District 40 includes San Juan County and parts of Skagit and Whatcom counties.

Skagit County ballots will include the U.S. House Representatives race for Congressional District 2, six state House of Representative races, one Skagit County Superior Court judge race, three Skagit County District Court judge races, eight other county races, and a Skagit Public Utility District Board of Commissioners race.

The nonjudicial county races are for assessor, auditor, clerk, coroner, prosecuting attorney, sheriff, treasurer and the District 3 seat on the Board of Commissioners.

As of 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, 14 of 21 incumbents in races that will be on Skagit County ballots have filed to run for reelection.

They are Larsen, Ramel, Miller, state Rep. Clyde Shavers (10th District, Position 1), state Rep. Dave Paul (10th District, Position 2), state Rep. Sam Low (39th District, Position 1), state Rep. Debra Lekanoff (40th District, Position 1), Skagit County Commissioner Joe Burns, Assessor Danny Hagen, Clerk Melissa Beaton, Treasurer Jackie Brunson, Superior Court Judge Mary Crandall, District Court Judge Jenifer Howson, District Court Judge Paul Nielsen.

As of 5:30 p.m. Thursday, only six of the 14 have challengers - Larsen, Shavers, Paul, Ramel, Burns and Miller.

As of 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Burns is facing two candidates in his bid to retain his seat - Keith Wagoner and Connie Krier.

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