Notable Legislative races

Highlights from recent Ethics Commission filings:

• Termed out state Rep. Jacqueline Lundeen, D-Mars Hill, has announced a bid for the Senate in District 34. Three people have already announced they will seek her seat in House District 6. Robert Glidden, Jr., D-Westfield, and Echo Kaply-Smith, D-Mars Hill, will face each other in a primary. Tyler Clark, R-Easton, is also running. Clark ran against Lundeen in 2006, losing 1,881 to 1,122.

• In Senate District 34, Lundeen will challenge first-term incumbent Roger Sherman, R-Houlton, who won by 1,110 votes in 2006.

• Termed out Sen. Peggy Rotundo, D-Lewiston and chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, has filed to run for the House District 74 seat. House Incumbent Margaret Craven, D-Lewiston, is seeking Rotundo’s seat in Senate District 16, along with Rep. Elaine Makas, D-Lewiston.

• Ethan Strimling’s seat (S.D. 8) is a popular one. Cliff Ginn, Justin Alfond and Anne Rand, all Portland Democrats, will face off in a primary to replace Strimling, who is vacating the seat to run for Congress. They’re all notable names, too. Rand is finishing up her ninth term in the Legislature. Ginn is a Harvard graduate and was president of the Opportunity Maine board. Alfond (yes, that Alfond family) has worked with Opportunity Maine and the League of Young Voters.

• House District 15 already has a three-way primary. Adam Goode, Gerry Palmer Jr. and Roberto Zavaleta, all Bangor Democrats, have announced they will seek the seat of termed-out Rep. Jacqueline Norton, D-Bangor.

• H.D. 32, currently held by Ian Emery, R-Cutler, has three others eying the seat. David Burns, R-Whiting, and Tony Maker, R-Machiasport, will face each other in a primary. Katherine Cassidy, D-Machias, is also running. Emery won by a mere 53 votes in 2006.

• In H.D. 30, Jon Reisman, R-Cooper, has decided against running. Instead, incumbent Howard McFadden, R-Dennysville, will seek a third term.