Steve Novick Builds His Fundraising Advantage Over Chloe Eudaly

The incumbent on the Portland City Council has raised $368,093.15 this year.

Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick has raised four times as much money as other incumbents in past elections as he prepares to face challenger Chloe Eudaly in the November election.

State records show Novick has so far raised $368,093.15 in 2016. (And that's not including the $161,000 he raised in 2015.)

By comparison, Commissioner Dan Saltzman raised $94,370 and Commissioner Nick Fish raised $102,687 when they each ran for re-election in 2014. While Fish faced only nominal challengers, Saltzman faced housing activist Nick Caleb, who ended up winning about 17 percent of the vote in the May primary.

Both Saltzman and Fish won their May primaries outright, avoiding a November runoff.

Novick didn't.

But his fundraising swamps that of Eudaly, a first-time candidates who's raised just over $75,000 this year. (That includes a recent $500 check from Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock.) Eudaly raised no money in 2015.

As of this week, Novick reports he has $81,230 on hand, compared with Eudaly's $6,777.

Eudaly's campaign manager, Marshall Runkel, says Monday her campaign has enough money to send out 50,000 copies of its Joe Sacco cartoon on Portland's housing crisis, with more to come.

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