"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is considered the front-runner in next month's election, but his fiancee's stunning admission that she was paid to illegally marry an immigrant in 1997 — plus other allegations about her — have suddenly complicated the race.

Wiping away tears at a Thursday news conference, 47-year-old Cylvia Hayes said she accepted around $5,000 to marry the immigrant so that he could remain in the United States.

"It was a marriage of convenience," Hayes said. "He needed help and I needed financial support."

Ashamed and embarrassed, Hayes said she had kept the marriage secret from Kitzhaber until a Portland alternative newspaper, Willamette Week, began asking questions.

The Democratic governor has not publicly addressed his fiancee's secret marriage, but the issue could come up when he debates Republican state Rep. Dennis Richardson on Friday.

Hayes said she was "associating with the wrong people" while struggling to put herself through college when she agreed to the sham marriage. Hayes was twice divorced and just shy of her 30th birthday when she married an 18-year-old Ethiopian man."

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For goodness sake the woman was 30 years and already twice married yet she blames this on hanging around with the wrong crowd? Not to worry though, folks. Kitzhaber will probably be reelected anyway despite the fact he was responsible for the complete disaster that was the Obamacare rollout in OR which cost the taxpayers of that state a bundle.

But that's just the problem. This is Oregon.

It's understandable. It's tough to keep track of all those marriages. The real ones and the phony ones are so easy to confuse. And besides, she's a Progressive. What they do, no matter what, is NEVER their fault.