A cheap lie in the voters pamphlet prompts an expensive campaign to defend OSPI chief

Maia Espinoza's whopper on the taxpayer's dime draws in $650K from WEA, other unions to defend Reykdahl

This is a story about how a cheaply told lie can be really expensive to fight. First, the lie: Maia Espinoza, a challenger to Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdahl, included this line in her statement in the voters pamphlet for the Aug. 4 primary: “The incumbent ignored parents and educators by championing a policy that teaches sexual posi…