SALEM - August 6 - The Independent Party of Oregon, the state's third largest political party, today announced the nomination of Joel Haugen as the party's candidate for US House of Representatives in the 1st Congressional District of Oregon. Haugen, a Republican who won 70 percent of the vote in the May primary, joins Democrat Jeff Merkley, the Independent Party's nominee for US Senate, as the second candidate cross-nominated by the Independent Party.

"Joel's appeal to traditional Republican values and his willingness to reach across party lines in service of the public interest place him in a long-line of independent, civic-minded Oregon leaders" said party chair, Linda Williams.