Congressional Candidate’s Reimbursements Scrutinized
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Democratic congressional candidate Jonathan Powers, who is running for a Buffalo-Rochester area seat, had to amend his campaign filings in recent days after the Federal Election Commission raised questions about reimbursements to himself and his campaign aide, Eben DuRoss.
In addition to agreeing Thursday to pay back campaign funds used to pay for his home office, Powers also had to address issues raised in a FEC letter in March about $12,000 in unexplained contributions to him and DuRoss, Gannett News Service has learned.
The campaign did amend its campaign filings by last Monday’s deadline and has agreed to pay back about $4,000 in rent for Powers’ campaign office.
Yet the amended filings appears to list as the purpose of some of the disbursements as just “reimbursements,” raising red flags for some Republicans for the lack of specificity. Republicans have said they plan to file a complaint with the FEC.
Powers campaign manager John Gerken said this morning that they believe they have adequately addressed the FEC’s concerns. He said he believes the reimbursements were for gas, food and other travel expenses.
“We amended it and to the best of the campaign’s knowledge, we are in full compliance with the FEC,” Gerken said.
Powers, an Iraq war veteran, is running for the congressional seat in the 26th District, which stretches from the Buffalo area to the Rochester suburbs. Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-Clarence, Erie County, is retiring.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
