Election '08: Precandidate Update

* The son of racetrack executive and table games advocate Ted Arneault has filed precandidacy papers for the House of Delegates seat being vacated by Majority Leader Joe DeLong, D-Hancock. Ted Arneault Jr., a 24-year-old teacher at Weirton Madonna High, told the Charleston Daily Mail that "My interests are really separate from the track.. I don't deal with the track on a daily basis."

* Delegate Richard Browning spoke to the Register-Herald of Beckley about running for the Senate seat being vacated by Majority Whip Billy Wayne Bailey, D-Wyoming (like DeLong, Bailey is planning a run for secretary of state).

* The Daily Mail also reports that Kanawha County Commissioner Dave Hardy, a Democrat, may run for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Vic Sprouse.