An Oklahoman joined the ranks today of those filing to be on the Feb. 5 presidential primary ballot in Oklahoma.
Jim Rogers of Midwest City filed papers to be on the ballot. He's a Democrat.
The retired high school and college teacher ran unsuccessfully in 2006 for lieutenant governor. He also ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and in 2004. He failed to win his party's nomination in any of his statewide campaigns.
"Might as well," Rogers said when asked why he joined the presidential sweepstakes. "Everybody else is."
Rogers is the only one of the 18 candidates to show up at the State Election Board office in the state Capitol to file to be on the ballot. Filing, which started Monday, ends at 5 p.m.
The campaigns of U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican, submitted paperwork earlier today to the State Election Board office.
Also, Fred Thompson, a former actor and former U.S. senator from Tennessee, and Daniel Gilbert, a North Carolina businessman, filed papers today and the required $2,500 fee to have their names placed on the Feb. 5 ballot. Both are Republicans.
Dodd, Connecticut's senior U.S. senator, was elected to Congress in 1974 and was elected to the Senate in 1980.
Huckabee was sworn in as governor of Arkansas in 1996 and was elected to a full four-year term in 1998. He was re-elected in 2002; he could not seek a third term because of term limits.
Gilbert's Web site states he owns a company that manufactures electronic musical drums and percussion instruments.
Thompson was elected in 1994 to finish the remaining two years of Al Gore's unexpired Senate term after Gore was elected vice president. Thompson won election to a full term in 1996 and did not seek re-election in 2002.
Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, all Democrats, and Republican
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