A quick trip around the legislative races:

District 14 (Eagle area): This will be a fun district to watch. Chuck Winder -- the former Boise mayor, former gubernatorial candidate and point man for then-Gov. Dirk Kempthorne's Connecting Idaho highway program -- is looking at a race, says Boise Weekly.

From here, the dominos begin to fall. Winder seems to be leaning toward a run against House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, says the Weekly. If that happens, former Eagle Mayor Nancy Merrill would run for the other House seat, now held by Eagle Republican Raul Labrador. In turn, Labrador might run for the Senate seat now held by Eagle Republican Stan Bastian.

Get it? Got it? Good.

District 16 (Northwest Boise/Garden City): With Boise Democrat David Langhorst leaving the Senate to run for Ada County commissioner, state Rep. Les Bock has announced his bid for the Senate. Makes sense. Bock has only one term in the House and no key committee assignments (such as a seat on the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee) that he would have to give up by moving to the Senate.

District 19 (North and East Boise): Again from the Boise Weekly: Former Ada County Democratic chairman Brian Cronin is considering a run. He ran unsuccessfully in 2004 for the House seat now held by Nicole LeFavour.

District 20 (Meridian area): Meridian Republican Rep. Mark Snodgrass will run for the Senate, according to The Times-News in Twin Falls. That sets up a potential primary between Snodgrass and Meridian Republican Sen. Shirley McKague. The backstory: Gov. Butch Otter appointed McKague to the Senate in 2007; Snodgrass had vied for the appointment.

As we reported this morning, Meridian City Council member Keith Bird will run as a Republican for Snodgrass' House job.

A programming note: The candidate filing period begins Monday and runs through March 21. I will be blogging live through the two weeks with the latest filings, analysis and backstory.

Ah, spring. Rotisserie baseball auctions. The March Madness brackets. Candidate filings. What fun!