Beaver County Radio News has spoken with all three players in the 15th Legislative District Democratic Primary controversy. Yesterday we spoke with Democratic Party candidate Michael Rossi and his opponent, former county commissioner Dennis Nichols, who recently switched from Democrat to Republican. Nichols told us he stands by his accusation that Rossi is in the race simply as the result of a political ploy, a plant by Republican State Representative Jim Christiana, in an effort to take Nichols out of the race so that Christiana doesn’t have to face him in the November elections. Nichols told us he’s convinced that Rossi and Christiana cut a deal based on their mutual support for Commissioner Dan Camp. Nichols told us he has a source who told him that Rossi and Christiana were seen together being friendly in a social situation within the last few weeks. Both Rossi and Christiana denied the accusations on the air, saying they haven’t seen each other in months. Today Christiana called the whole thing a “crazy conspiracy theory”.