...Rebuilding After Another: 'Dissident' Group Set To Win Board.

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A group of Columbia Credit Union members who helped defeat a bid to convert the credit union to a mutual savings bank last year is poised to win control of the credit union's board of directors in next month's elections.

The so-called dissident members won four of the board's nine seats in last year's elections, just weeks after narrowly failing to recall the board in an unprecedented special election for the board's effort to change to a bank.

Now the group, ostensibly called Save Columbia CU, could win as many as three more seats, giving opponents of the controversial conversion control of the $650-million credit union.

The …