Republicans Zap Powers Over Campaign Funds (Updated)
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The National Republican Congressional Committee is attacking Democratic congressional candidate Jon Powers, claiming his campaign contributions come mainly from outside the 26th District, where he is running to replace retiring Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-Clarence 
Erie County.
The NRCC says Powers’ FEC report shows:
$80,050 from New York City
$44, 050 from Massachusetts
$30,300 from Virginia
$24,550 from California
$23,770 from Washington, D.C.
$15, 400 from New Yorks 26th Congressional District
“The numbers don’t lie,” said NRCC Press Secretary Ken Spain. “Based on these numbers, one would think that Jon Powers is running for Congress in Manhattan, not New York’s 26th Congressional District. Next time Jon Powers claims to have substantial ‘hometown support’ someone might consider checking out whether his hometown is in New York City, Massachusetts or even California for that matter.â€
Earlier this week, Powers and some Democratic leaders called on the party to unify around his candidacy and avoid a likely primary in September.
Updated—Here’s the response from Powers’ spokeswoman Victoria Dillon:
“What the NRCC isn’t saying is that 75% of Jon Powers’ donors have given $50 or less. People from all over the district are chipping in to bring change and real leadership to Western New York.
“This attack by the NRCC is a desperate ploy to distract Western New Yorkers from a sagging economy, a war spiraling out of control in Iraq and unaffordable health care. This is more of the Washington, D.C. two-step that Western New Yorkers have grown sick of.”
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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. 
