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T
he way Spokane County Commissioner Al French tells it, state Rep. Marcus Riccelli was explicit about his plans when he pitched him on a bill to remake the county board, expanding the number from three countywide commissioners to five district-elected commissioners.
Before he floated the bill in 2017, he and I had breakfast down at Perkins, French asserts. He told me straight to my face: He wanted to run for county commissioner.
He says it with the tone of reciting an obvious fact that,
of course, everybody already knows.
That s totally false, says Riccelli, D-Spokane.
I have never expressed to Al French that I am running for county commissioner, he chuckles. He s not telling the truth. ....

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