July 1: Does this mean there's a primary now?

The Rochester Post Bulletin reports Two-week filing period for candidates opens Tuesday (aka today):

While the presidential election is getting all the headlines, the fact is that seats up and down the ballot will be up for grabs, from U.S. Senate to Rochester City Council, from Rochester School Board to the Olmsted County Board of Commissioners.

The filing period for candidates opens Tuesday and runs through July 15. Here's a rundown of local, state and federal offices that you will be able to vote on. . . .

. . .At the federal level, there will be three key races that will concern this area: The U.S. House seat in the 1st Congressional District held by DFL Rep. Tim Walz; the U.S. Senate seat held by U.S. Norm Coleman; and then, last but not least, the office of president. The 2nd Congressiontal District house seat held by John Kline also is up for election.

We bring this important deadline to the attention of Brian Davis, who once said there's no primary until candidates file.  We assume that Senator Day will be filing, since he 1) has been campaigning 2) has walked in parades and 3) said as much to the Pioneer Press in an article published this weekend.

We now resume our regularly scheduled blogging. This is been a public service announcement for the record-keeping impaired.

Comments

[Phoenix Woman]

I'm trying to imagine the thought processes of the sachems of the Rochester GOP here:

"Well, we've got Dick Day, who is popular with the anti-immigrant Minuteman crowd and who can at least raise money, though not as much as Walz. But we tried beating the anti-immigrant drum against Walz last time and he cleaned our clocks. Let's go with a pretty face this time, even if he does have to be self-funding because he's such a doofus."

Of course, this could all be a plot to make Walz injure himself by laughing so hard he tears a muscle. It almost worked with me.