Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, Well, the sky hasn’t fallen…That was what Navajo Nation Council Speaker Johnny Naize predicted would happen if the Navajo Nation Court denied his request for the Court to immediately black the Council from placing him on paid leave. According to Naize’s legal CLAIMS to the Court, the paid leave would “threaten to further […]
The most recent event involving an April 7, 2014, legal action by Navajo Council Speaker Johnny Naize against 12 Navajo Nation Council delegates and the Legislative Services Director is a WRITTEN request from Council Delegates Katherine Benally and Charles Damon II for the Navajo Nation Department of Justice to be their attorney. Benally and Damon […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, This morning, April 8, 2014, Navajo Nation Window Rock, Ariz., District Court Judge Carol Perry did not make a decision during a hearing on a request by Speaker Johnny Naize’s request for a Temporary Restraining Order against 12 Council delegates and one legislative branch employee. Instead Perry ordered another hearing, which is scheduled […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, On April 4, 2014, the Navajo Nation Council VOTED 12 in favor, 0 opposed to place Speaker Johnny Naize on paid administrative leave because as a member of the Council, he no held a requirement to be speaker. That legal requirement was “good standing.” And there were 12 reasons why Naize no longer […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, Here is a copy of the request by Navajo Council Speaker Johnny Naize, to the Navajo Nation Window Rock, Ariz., District Court for a Temporary Restraining Order against the 12 Navajo Council delegates that voted in favor of placing him on administrative leave with pay and also against Legislative Services Director Tom Platero […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, It’s been a very busy day. I drove over to the Office of the Speaker in Window Rock, Ariz., and arrived about 7:30 a.m, where I saw Speaker Pro Temp Delegate LoRenzo Bates talking with a tribal government maintenance man. Bates explained that he called the maintenance office after he couldn’t open the […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I’ve been trying to work on posting my video tape of the Navajo Nation Council special session at the Navajo Council chamber in Window Rock, Ariz., on April 4, 2014, which was scheduled to specifically address Legislation 0069-14, the removal of Delegate Johnny Naize as speaker. I finished Part 1. And I’ll work […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL DEBATING LEGISLATION 0069-14, REMOVAL OF DELEGATE JOHNNY NAIZE AS SPEAKER. DURING DEBATE, DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE MAKES AN AMENDMENT TO 0069-14 TO REPLACE “REMOVAL” WITH “ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE WITH PAY.” LEGISLATIVE ATTORNEY MARIANA KAHN i’m unclear if the council understands the full ramification of what they are doing by amending Legislation 0069-14 to be legislation […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL DEBATES LEGISLATION 0069-14, WHICH IS THE REMOVAL OF DELEGATE JOHNNY NAIZE AS SPEAKER. DURING THE DEBATE, DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE MOTION TO AMEND 0069-14 BY REPLACING “REMOVAL” WITH “ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE.” Council voted 12 in favor, 0 opposed to change legislation 0069-14 by removing the word “removal” and replacing it with “administrative leave.”
NAVAJO COUNCIL WAS DEBATING LEGISLATION 0069-14, WHICH IS THE REMOVAL OF DELEGATE JOHNNY NAIZE AS SPEAKER, WHEN DELEGATE JONATHAN NEZ ASKED THE COUNCIL TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AT ABOUT 12:35 P.M. TO TALK WITH SPEAKER NAIZE AND PERHAPS COME TO A COMPROMISE. THE COUNCIL COMES OUT OF EXECUTIVE AT ABOUT 3 P.M. AND SHORTLY […]
