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Nick Kahl chalks up his decisive victory against John Nelsen in the District 49 House race to old-fashioned, face-to-face campaigning.
“We worked hard,” the 31-year-old Rockwood resident said. “We ran an aggressive grassroots campaign. I’ve knocked on, I’d say, 14,000 doors. The amount of voter outreach – that was the difference-maker.”
Kahl, a law student at Lewis & Clark College, took in 11,182 votes, or 56 percent, while Nelsen, chairman of the Reynolds School Board, garnered 8,619, or 43 percent of the vote, according to Multnomah County election results.
A Democrat, Kahl said he thought the outcome might be a little closer, but otherwise conceded the race went about the way he envisioned.
“We had a lot of momentum coming out of the campaign,” Kahl said. “I was a little surprised, but not much.”
In addition to campaigning, Nelsen, a Republican, has been working overtime as Reynolds School Board chairman in the wake of former Superintendent Terry Kneisler’s forced resignation in September. The board hired Robert Fisher to replace Kneisler and is working to unravel a tangle of financial questions in his wake.
In a statement, Nelsen said he was proud of his campaign.
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