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Everything old is new again.
Portland Commissioner Steve Novick has hired Jake Weigler to consult on his general election campaign against Chloe Eudaly, who eked out a second place win in the May primary for Portland City Council, pushing Novick to a November runoff.
Weigler replaces Stacey Dycus, who also ran Multnomah County Commissioner Jules Bailey's unsuccessful bid for Portland mayor.
Weigler, of course, is a familiar face in the Novick camp.
He ran Novick's upstart run for the U.S. Senate in 2008. And he was signed on to run Novick's second bid for Portland commissioner, until he decided to work for Ted Wheeler, now Portland's mayor elect.
At the time, Mayor Charlie Hales was still expected to run for re-election, putting Novick in the awkward spot of employing a consultant who was also trying to oust a colleague.
Enter Dycus.
The fact that Weigler's back seems to indicate Novick now wants to take a different tack. It's very unusual in Portland for a sitting commissioner to lose a reelection campaign. But the May primary showed significant voter disastisfaction with Novick, whose nine opponents drew 57 percent of the vote.
Dycus says she's moving away from working with candidates to focus on issue campaigns and work with businesses and nonprofits.
Willamette Week
