Let the show begin! The sure-to-be-hot 2008 Multnomah County Commission race for three open seats surged to a start today, with two candidates filing to compete in the primary for District 1.
Seeking to represent the district, which takes in parts of the inner east side and everything west of the Willamette River, are Deborah Kafoury and Wes Soderback. Both submitted their paperwork this morning, on the first day candidates could file, said Eric Sample, a spokesman for the Multnomah County Elections Division.
Kafoury, a former state representative from Portland and ex-House Democratic leader, had been widely expected to run for the seat being vacated next year by Maria Rojo de Steffey.
Soderback, a retired deck officer with the U.S. Merchant Marine, is a relative unknown compared to Kafoury, who has one of Portland politics’ more well-known last names. He previously made an unsuccessful bid for the District 3 state Senate seat in 1988, when he was soundly defeated in the Democratic primary by Bob Shoemaker.
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