(Portland, OR) -- Governor John Kitzhaber's fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, is facing more controversy. Hayes says she and a man bought 60 acres in Washington in 1997 with the intention of establishing a marijuana growing operation. She says it happened several months after she married an Ethiopian man for the purpose of helping him gain U.S. citizenship. Hayes says the marijuana grow in Okanogan never materialized and she was "never financially involved" with purchasing the land.