The Missouri Ethics Commission (pdf) met yesterday morning and disqualified candidates for failure to file personal financial disclosure statements as required by statute:

105.492 RSMo…2. If a candidate for office does not file a financial interest statement by the close of business on the twenty-first day after the last day for filing for election for which the person is a candidate, the commission shall notify the official who accepted such candidate’s declaration of candidacy that the candidate is disqualified. Such election official shall remove the candidate’s name from the ballot…

Among those disqualified:

14 disqualified from Mo. ballot

By David A. Lieb

ASSOCIATED PRESS

04/21/2008

…As a result, commissioners disqualified Christina Anderson, of Springfield, one of two lesser-known candidates running against Attorney General Jay Nixon in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Also disqualified from the August primary ballot was former Democratic Sen. Charlie Wheeler, of Kansas City, who had filed to run for state treasurer…

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Eight candidates for the House of representatives were disqualified, including republican challengers in the 44th, 46th, 74th, and 124th.

…But in cases where the disqualified candidate was the only candidate for a particular party, that political party now will have the opportunity to select a new candidate…

Those party committees could meet and select a replacement.