A former congressman called the $45 million appropriation a “slush fund,” while a key trade union urged Kotek to approve it.
Gov. Tina Kotek decided Thursday 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 laws, Kotek explained that the trust had satisfied her concerns that the state’s money would be used productively…
