Lots of paper pulling for mayor

Yesterday was the first day to register to run for mayor and city council in Boston David Bernstein reports on who registered for mayor. In addition to names you know, we could also see signature gathering for: Gareth Saunders, William Feegbeh, Gary Finneran, John Hanney, William Theodore Leonard, and Joseph Wiley:

No sign of Mayor McChicken yet.

He also reports we finally have a female at-large city council candidate: Natalie Carithers of Dorchester. He runs down, um, posts names, of all the other candidates for at-large and district races so far - including, of course, Althea Garrison, the Harold Stassen of Boston politics.

So who are these non-Yoon/Flaherty/McCrea/McChicken types?

Gareth Saunders represented Roxbury in the city council before Chuck Turner. William Theodore Leonard is a Socialist Worker. John Hanney is a Republican from South Boston.

William Feegbeh? Dunno, but he has a great name. Can anybody fill in the blank? Ditto for the more prosaically named Gary Finneran and Joseph Wiley.

Now simply pulling papers doesn't mean they'll be on the ballot. Mayoral candidates need at least 3,000 valid signatures - a bar that kept both Saunders and Hanney off the mayoral ballot in 2005.