Thirteen candidates who may not be on your presidential primary ballot …

… but who are on mine.

Sandy Whitehouse of Vail, Arizona is running on a platform of placing restrictions on mining and supporting rural fire departments.

Peter “Simon” Bollander of downtown Tucson, Arizona is running on the strength of his acting experience.

Leland Montell of Tucson has a fairly standard Democratic platform, with perhaps a slightly more liberal take on immigration.

Chuck See of Tucson is running on a platform of election reform and fixing the world.

Libby Hubbard (aka Doctress Neutopia) of Tucson is running on the Utopian platform. I think.

Loti Gest of Tucson is an elusive figure whose views are hard to pin down.

William Campbell of Tucson is running on an environmental platform. Like many presidential candidates, he also has a myspace page.

Philip Vaughn Tanner of Tucson is running on a platform of improving health care and education and reducing dependence on foreign oil.

Edward Dobson of Tucson has finished five “very good” novels and loves his wife.

Tish Haymer of Tucson is running on the strength of her affiliation with the Tucson Weekly, which has been encouraging local candidates to run for president as part of Project White House.

Michael Oatman of Tucson is running because this is the first year he’s eligible to run for president, on a platform of health care for everyone, rebuilding the middle class and stopping the transition from a republic to an empire, because that didn’t work out too well in Star Wars, now, did it?

Evelyn L. Vitullo of Tucson is almost as elusive as Loti Gest.

Richard Grayson of Apache Junction, Arizona, like so many other early candidates, has withdrawn from the race to focus on his congressional campaign against Republican Jeff Flake. He was running on a platform of Medicare for all, immediate withdrawal from Iraq, and a dollar-a-gallon tax on gasoline to help achieve energy independence.

That’s the Democratic ballot. There are also several Tucsonans and Arizonans on the Republican ballot; you can get a rundown of many of their views as well at Project White House.

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