Jeff Smith

First Congressional District candidate Joel Haugen (R-Scappoose), who is battling Republican officials in that district, called support from Oregon Republican Party officials a farce after they refused to rectify a situation where local county officials would not support his candidacy.

HILLSBORO - Across from a magic show, next to a fortune teller and adjacent to the funnel cakes is not necessarily where one would expect to witness the Republican Party squaring off against its own candidate. But after Joel Haugen, who says he is a traditional Republican and who quotes Teddy Roosevelt at the end of his e-mails, became his party's nominee in the 1st Congressional District, the Washington County fair became but one field where the battle would be played out.