“Other than a couple sponsorships, I paid for everything.”
BY NIGEL JAQUISS
Oregon Journalism Project
Don Powers, chairman of the Oregon Republican Party in the 6th Congressional District, did not respond to questions for a recent story by the Oregon Journalism Project about allegations that he pocketed the proceeds from a Jan. 20 inauguration party in Washington, D.C. (“Afterparty,” OJP, July 23).
But on July 29, Powers broke his silence, claiming that although invitations labeled…