A former congressman called the $45 million appropriation a “slush fund,” while a key trade union urged Kotek to approve it.
BY NIGEL JAQUISS
Oregon Journalism Project
Gov. Tina Kotek decided this afternoon she will not veto a $45 million appropriation to help the Willamette Falls Trust buy 60 acres on the west side of Willamette Falls.
In a letter to Secretary of State Tobias Read, who assigns Oregon Revised Statute chapter numbers to new…