HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WHERE DEBATE IS ON AUTHORIZING REFERENDUM FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE BACK THEIR GOVERNMENT DELEGATE RUSSELL BEGAYE This is patchwork. Millions has been spent on Government Development Commission and this is what they brought. They were suppose to have complete Government Reform. This is really not about giving power back to people. […]
I’M BACK AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WHERE DEBATES CONTINUES ON LEGISLATION 0369-12 WHICH IS FOR COUNCIL TO AUTHORIZE REFERENDUM FOR NAVAJO PEOPLE TO AMEND NAVAJO LAW BY REMOVING COUNCIL AS GOVERNING BODY AND RETURNING THE PEOPLE AS GOVERNING BODY. DELEGATE CHARLES DAMON II According to a report from Navajo Government Development Office Caleb Roanhorse to chapter, […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WHERE I’M HEARING MORE AND MORE ANXIETY FROM COUNCIL DELEGATES WHO ARE FINDING IT HARD TO EMPOWER THE NAVAJO PEOPLE. DELEGATE LORENZO CURLEY are we putting policy to people? or are we allowing people to create a right? The right for People to govern is already recognized in other parts of […]
HERE AT ILLEGAL “INFORMATION MEETING” OF NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL THAT SPEAKER JOHNNY NAIZE CALLED YESTERDAY, JAN. 28, 2014, FOR TODAY, JAN. 29., 2014, AT 8 A.M. AT THE QUALITY INN IN WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. THE DELEGATES THAT WERE HERE WHEN I ARRIVED WERE DWIGHT WITHERSPOON, KATHERINE BENALLY, DAVID TOM, GEORGE APACHITO, LEONARD PETE AND RUSSELL […]
Naabit debating whether to have referendum for Healthy Dine’ Nation Act. DELEGATE LORENZO CURLEY Taxes and Money from natural resources are property of Navajo people. They’re nothing in the law that says how we shud not abuse those monies. People shud have a say in the annual budget, how we spend money from coal, natural […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL TAKES UP ANOTHER LEGISLATION DEALING WITH INITIATIVE/REFERENDUM. THIS ONE WOULD REDUCE PERCENTAGE NEEDED FOR SIGNATURES TO FILE INITITIVE/REFERENDUM. DELEGATE TSOSIE Alrady loering chaper quorum and just rewarding bad practices. We shud encourage participation instead of reducing percentage. for those chapters with 1,000, there should 500 people voting on legislation. now election law changes […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL DEBATES PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO STRENTHEN REFERENDUM VOTE OF PEOPLE and VOTES IT DOWN WITH VOTE OF 9 IN FAVOR, 10 OPPOSED. DELEGATE WITHERSPOON Page 2 simply confirms everything that wud be law. Those provision not deemed invalid wud remain law. Not about giving Supreme Court power to over-rule referendum. It’s about whether referendum […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL CONTINUES DEBATE ON ALLOWING PEOPLE TO VOICE WHAT LAWS THEY SUPPORT OR DON’T SUPPORT THRU REFERENDUM/LEGISLATION 0367-13. SPONSOR IS DELEGATE JONATHAN NEZ. DELEGATE LORENZO CURLEY LINE 17 or 16 talks about alternative forms of government. Is this proposed law limited to questions of government structure? Look at law you are proposing and it […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL appears to be upset after Speaker Naize pushed through vote on proposed Energy Policy, which he sponsored, along with Delegates Roscoe Smith, Charles Damon II. ME THINKS that because Spaker was sponsor that he had a conflict of interest and he should have named a speaker pro temp. And when Delegate Jonathan Nez […]
