More candidates surveying the prospects for 64B race

The aspirants for the Highland Park/Mac-Groveland seat in the Legislature are starting to line up.

New tonight: Ted Davis is seriously considering a run, St. Paul city attorney Sarah Grewing is mulling the idea as is Matt Freeman, grandson of former DFL governor Orville Freeman.

Davis runs Highland Park-based Davis Communications, and is a former St. Paul Chamber of Commerce communications director. Also an interim president of the Midway Chamber of Commerce. Davis is also a co-founder of Serving Our Troops, the St. Paul-based military support organization started with then City Council member Pat Harris, who vied for the DFL endorsement with Michael Paymar back when Howard Orenstein retired and the seat was last left open back in 1996. Davis has also did work for the Ramsey County Regional Rail Authority. Davis is also married to Andrea Casselton, who until recently was a long-time member of mayor Chris Coleman's cabinet. She was the Director of Technology and Communications through September of 2013.

Grewing is a former Chief of Staff for mayor Chris Coleman and state director for U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar -- running Klobuchar's official Minnesota office. Grewing was also an assistant county attorney back when Klobuchar was the Hennepin County Attorney. She's been an attorney in private practice, and is a U of M grad and went to law school at William Mitchell. She's also been a lobbyist and legal counsel to the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities, so she knows the Capitol.

And finally, Matt Freeman is said to be thinking of getting into the race. He's got a long political pedigree, as the son of Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and the grandson of Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman. Most recently, he was campaign manager for Chris Coleman's second re-election bid. His LinkedIn resume also has some high-profile high points: he was the political and field director for U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar's campaign in 2012, and for Carly Melin's campaign for the House up in 5B, in the race to replace DFLer Tony Sertich when he was appointed in 2011 by Gov. Mark Dayton to the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board.  (Melin's district is now 6A, after the most recent redistricting.) Most telling though, for a 64B race: Freeman was political director for Chris Tolbert's contentious and successful bid for the Ward 3 seat in 2011, covering much the same territory as the 64B contest.