Submitted Photo Cherie Rustulka is a candidate for trustee in the upcoming election for the Saskatchewan Rivers School Division. A candidate for trustee in the Saskatchewan Rivers School Division denies that she was attempting to bribe voters when she offered a chance to win a $50 gift card for sharing her campaign page. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Oct.
21, advocate Caitlin Erickson posted a screen capture of one of Rustulka’s posts on the WTF Prince Albert Facebook. The post offered a chance to win a $50 gift card on Nov. 12 (the day before the election) for sharing her campaign page.
“I never at any point said that I was buying votes,” Rustulka said in an interview with the Herald. “I was sharing my page. If you look at it, there’s nowhere on it (saying) that I was asking for a vote.
I was just sharing my bio.” Rustalka said she was not surprised the accusation came from Erickson. Erickson is a former student at Legacy Christian Academy in Saskatoon, and is one of several students involved in a class action lawsuit against the Academy.
One of Legacy’s former staff members facing charges, Duff Friesen, was teaching at Regent Academy in Prince Albert when he was charged. Embassy Church operated Regent Academy before closing it down in 2024. Rustalka said the intent of her post is being misconstrued.
“That post was up for maybe five minutes and then I recognized that maybe this could be twisted so I took it down,” Rustukla said. According to.
