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Democratic former lawmaker Joe Morrissey, known for weathering controversy, has filed to run against state Sen. Rosalyn Dance, D-Petersburg, in the June primary. A party official said he will qualify for the ballot.

Morrissey will make an announcement Wednesday evening at the Satellite Restaurant in Richmond.

Jamie Nolan, chairwoman of the Democratic Party’s nominating committee for the Senate district, said Morrissey has qualified for the ballot.

Morrissey said in an interview Tuesday that he filed double the required 250 signatures needed to get on the ballot and has knocked on close to 5,000 doors. He also mentioned a video he made in which he asked people in Senate District 16 if they wanted him to run.

“We’ll be doing five more — excuse me — if I decide to run we’ll be doing five more,” Morrissey said.

Dance, a former Petersburg mayor who was first elected in a 2014 special election, announced her re-election plans in a March 14 news release.