Mike Fahey, a former financial secretary-treasurer of the Portland
Metal Trades Council and a former Democratic state representative
from North Portland, will throw his hat into a crowded race for
an open seat on the Portland City Council.
The incumbent, Sam Adams, is leaving to run for mayor.
A half-dozen candidates have already filed for, or say that they
will file for the post. Fahey is the seventh.
A member of Pile Drivers, Divers and Shipwrights Local 2416, Fahey
left the labor movement to open his own mortgage company. A native
Oregonian, he founded the Shipwrights Apprenticeship Program, and
he still directs the Carpenters Food Bank along with his wife Sandy.
He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in ’92 and for labor commissioner
in ’99.
Fahey said he will kick off his campaign in January 2008. He will
not use the city’s public campaign finance fund program.
