Its election time in the beautiful White Mountains. The Apache people have a number of candidates from the offices of Chairman, Vice Chairman and the four District Council seats. Primary elections will be held February 3, 2010. The date for the General Election is set for April 7, 2010.
The candidates for Chairman are Ronnie Lupe, Arnold Beach, Sr., and Rubert Lupe, Sr. The candidates for Vice Chairman are Reno Johnson, Sr., Timothy Hinton, Sr., and Andrew Kinney, Jr. The Tribal Council has five seats up for election. Districts I, II and III have one seat, while District IV has two seats available. The candidates from District I are Evangeline Gatewood, Gregg Henry, Ora Henry, and Burnette Lupe, District II candidates are Jerold Altaha, Crystal DeClay Chee, Gillespie Childs, Jr., Clinton Kessay, Jr., and Vangie Manuel. The candidates for District III are Jennifer Manuel, Kirk Massey, Sr., Rovene Nosie, Sr., and Kino Torino. Running for the two District IV seats are Jackie Altaha, Tonna Altaha, Wayne Colelay, Jr., Cline Griggs, Consoni Hill, Kasey Valasquez, and Justin Williams.
Polling places for the Primary Election on February 3, 2010 will be at Cibecue Cottonwood Gym, Corrizo Community Building, Cedar Creek Community Building School at JFK School, Canyon Day Laundromat, Seven Mile Laundromat, East Fork Community Building, Whiteriver Memorial Hall, McNary Community Building. There will be no polling place in Forestdale. If you live in Forestdale, you will vote in Cedar Creek.
For more information visit the Elections Commission office.
So let your voice be heard with your vote. The People choose the leaders from the People.
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The latest on the 2010 White Mountain Apache Tribal Election in Whiteriver, Arizona is that it was discovered that numerous Absentee Ballots were mailed by the Election Commission to a corporation office and several tribal members had these absentee ballots in their possession and were seeking the person named on the absentee ballots. A box of absentee ballots was discovered today and several tribal administrators have been implicated, including the Tribe's Treasurer. Tribal Council passed a resolution today,Feb. 1, 2010, to bar all absentee ballots from being counted.
So, those of us who live off of that political sewer of a place called tribal executive, legislative branches, OUR votes don't count? How pathetic and sorry is that? Also, I believe Free Speech is a joke and we need an independent newspaper that exists to inform the people about how absurd our political realm is in White Mountain.
Do you know what to outcome was? Hope former leaders are all GONE!
JUST THINK BACK ON ALL THE PAST ELECTIONS WERE THEY ALL SABATOGED WITH ABSENTEE BALLOTS? WELL I GUESS THATS POLITICS FOR YOU. I THINK THE PEOPLE THAT HAD THOSE ABSENTEES BALLOTS THAT WERE CAUGHT RED HANDED SHOULD BE FIRED FROM THEIR POSITIONS THEY HOLD WITHIN THE TRIBE. COME ON TRIBAL COUNCIL GET RID OF THEM. OH I FORGET THE PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBERS MIGHT OF BEEN VOTED IN WITH THE ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN THE PAST SO THEY WON'T GET RID OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE CAUGHT. THEY MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING ON THESE COUNCILMEMBERS. SO ITS ALL FRAUD . LATER PEACE AND PRAYERS TO ALL.
The White Mountain Apache Tribe shouldn't have council members. Honestly, all they do is get new vehicles, new cell phones, and they get paid way more than they should be getting paid. They say "I want to help my people" but they aren't helping the tribe they are just putting the tribe in more debt and embarrassing us with their past. I don't want awful people to represent the tribe, during election they put each other down and write columns in the Apache Scout about how "oh so good they are" and most of them don't know how to write well. Do we really want that for our tribe? Well I don't.
The White Mountian is not the Tribal Council Mens or the Vice Chairmans Tribe...The New People who got elected may say they want to make a change for the APACHE PEOPLE...but when did the APACHE POPLE EVER SEE A CHANGE IN ANYTHING THE TRIBAL COUNCIL MEN OR CHAIR MENS HAVE EVER DONE>>>all they do is talk...i haven't seen anything they have ever done in the past for the apache people...WHERE IS THE CHANGE!!!!<<<QUIT TALKIN & MAKE A CHANGE FOR ONCE>>>
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