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Navajo Council pardons Navajo Election Board

Navajo Nation Council – without debate – votes 11 in favor, 1 opposed on Legislation 0391-14, Pardon for former Navajo Election Board. Council adjourns at 7:58 am Legislation 0341-14 now heads to President Ben Shelly for his signature or veto. Navajo law allows the President ten days to make a decision and if there is […]

Navajo Council adds legislation to Pardon election board to its agenda

NAVAJO COUNCIL DEBATING ADDITION OF LEGISLATION 0391-14, PARDON OF NAVAJO ELECTION BOARD, TO ITS AGENDA BY PETITION OF 13 DELEGATES. COUNCIL VOTES ON CHALLENGE BY DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE TO SPEAKER PRO TEM BATES’ RULING THAT 0391-14, PARDON FOR ELECTION BOARD, IS OUT OF ORDER AND CANNOT BE ADDED TO COUNCIL AGENDA BY PETITION OF A […]

Navajo Council Delegate Danny Simpson predicts legal challenge to Pardon of Election Board

NAVAJO COUNCIL DEBATING ADDITION OF LEGISLATION 0391-14, PARDON OF NAVAJO ELECTION BOARD, TO ITS AGENDA BY PETITION OF 13 DELEGATES. DELEGATE DUANE TSINIGINE if 0391-14 is ruled out of order then I will make a motion for Legislation 0249-14, which is the funding of $286,247 for a special presidential election. DELEGATE EDUMUND YAZZIE my question […]

Navajo Council Delegate Tsosie challenging ruling that putting Pardon legislation on Councl agenda is out of order

NAVAJO COUNCIL DEBATING ADDITION OF LEGISLATION 0391-14, PARDON OF NAVAJO ELECTION BOARD, TO ITS AGENDA BY PETITION OF 13 DELEGATES. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE The only way to add legislation 0391-14, Pardon for Navajo Election Board for any violation of law and reinstate to offices, which the Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee didn’t act on yesterday, Dec. 29, […]

Interim Navajo Council Delegate Roland Tso sharply criticizes fellow delegates

Navajo Council convenes at 12:57 p.m. The Council is not making announcements and introductions. It is now 1:19 p.m. Interim COUNCIL DELEGATE ROLAND TSO I sat here for about two hours, waiting for the Council to get a quorum. I understand that the Delegates are trying to rake up as much money as they can […]

Navajo Council Delegate Leonard Tsosie talks about his legislation to nullify 2014 Primary Election for Presidential race

Navajo Nation Council Delegate Leonard Tsosie’s “Emergency” Legislation 0341-14, which would nullify the 2014 August Primary Election for the Presidential race only and approve a new Primary Election for Presidential candidates, followed by a Special General Election for President is on tomorrow’s, Dec. 30, 2014, special Council agenda. In legislation related to 0341-14, Tsosie got […]

Proposed Navajo Council legislation to Pardon Navajo Election Board added to Naabik’iyati Committee

Here at Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee, where Committee member/Delegate Leonard Tsosie asked to have his legislation added to today’s Naabi agenda. Tsosie’s legislation is, 0391-14 An Action Relating to Naa’bik’iyati’ and Navajo Nation Council; Pardoning Navajo Board of Election Supervisors From Any Violations of Law in the Performance of Their Work in Presiding Over the […]

Former Navajo Election Board plans to meet tomorrow, Nov. 13, 2014

Former Navajo Election Board of Supervisors Vice Chairperson Tom M. White Jr. said today, Nov. 12, that the former Election Board will be meeting tomorrow, Nov. 13, at 9 a.m. at the Quality Inn & Restaurant Business Complex conference room in Window Rock, Ariz. Tom informed me about the former Election Board’s meeting after the […]