No Clackamas County Commission chair has won reelection since 2008, leaving the nonpartisan position seesawing between Democrats and Republicans every term since.
This year, incumbent Tootie Smith — an outspoken Republican raised on a farm and steeped in elected politics since her days in the state House two decades ago — hopes to change that.
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