A question of collusion

By JOHN McCALLUM

Editor

A local citizen has filed a complaint with Washington’s Public Disclosure Commission against the Cheney School District and the Committee for Support of Good Schools alleging the two organizations worked too closely in promoting passage of the recent $44.88 million construction bond to expand and renovate the district’s high school.

“I’m trying to make the case that they almost seemed in collusion,” Bill Johns said. “It’s like two sides of the same coin.”

Johns filed the case Feb. 3 with the PDC, listing a contact email address as Taxpayers for Efficient Schools. It’s t...