Is the petition initiative to reduce the Navajo Council being put on the ballot as a grassroots effort as the Navajo President implies?
• No, the petition initiative to reduce the Council is not a grassroots effort and it has never been. The initiative is being managed and pushed by paid Navajo Nation employees from the Office of the President using tribal dollars. This is the Navajo people’s money and they need to tell the President and his staff, “We do not want our money utilized in this way.