Ten people, including three incumbents, will battle for the three open City Council seats in the August primary election.
Only one person, Craig McFarland, filed to run for mayor.
The candidates who filed their City Council petitions with enough valid signatures are:
- Peter Redwine, Installer at CenturyLink
- Marty Schmidt, Employed at Frito-Lay
- David Snider, Former city library director and former county supervisor, now operating a consulting service
- Gilberto Mendez, Arizona State University student
- Marcus Foerster, Casa Grande resident who is a police officer in Mesa
- Donna McBride, Program administrator for Pinal County Juvenile Court
- Bob Huddleston, Retired Casa Grande police chief, serves as judge pro tem for Casa Grande Justice Court
- Lisa Fitzgibbons (incumbent), Director of marketing and business development for Fitzgibbons Law Offices
- Karl Montoya (incumbent), Agriculture consultant with Fertizona
- Mary Kortsen (incumbent), Self-employed as an independent paralegal and certified legal document preparer
- Craig McFarland (for mayor, Retired after 36 years in beverage industry sales management and operations
Gary Wood, an insurance agent, had initially taken out papers to run, but City Clerk Remy Miller said he had not collected enough signatures.
Petitions required a minimum of 179 valid signatures of registered voters.
Also, Miller said Jack Dixon indicated that he did not pursue collecting signatures to run for council. She said Dixon did not file either a $500 threshold exemption statement (collecting or spending $500 or less during a campaign) or a political committee statement, required before petitions could be circulated.
