It took 3 meetings in one night, but the Council did it’s job. They actually worked together and voted to eliminated the emergency ordinance calling for the March 26 election and set a new election date of May 16.
Earlier that day, the Tribal court basically said that the March 26 election could go forward with mail in ballots, and an a hearing on the appeal in late April.
But the council vote last night triggered a reset. New election. Work has to be done to give the election committee guidance. A lot of guidance. They made it clear during the meeting that they had no idea what they were doing.
We have to give kudos to Aaron Tobey and Carlton Hendricks for showing leadership. The lawyer for the election committee was having a hard time answering the questions posed by Hendricks. Brian Weeden was impressive with his ability to conduct the meeting properly and then keep it on track when Jessie took over.
There were over 75 members on that zoom at any given time. That’s a lot of people for our little Tribe.
There were some important things said during this meeting by Tribal members. We will talk about that in our next edition.
