A Navajo court has disqualified a tribal presidential candidate running for the top elected post on the largest U.S. Indian reservation because he has refused to demonstrate his fluency in the Navajo language. Chris Deschene, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and a lawyer, refused to answer questions in the Navajo language Thursday at a hearing […]
Alaska gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker welcomed a court ruling today confirming the validity of the Walker/Byron Mallott unity ticket. Anchorage Superior Court Judge John Suddock’s decision upholds the actions of the lieutenant governor, who issued emergency regulations approving the merger of the two campaigns. “Elections should be decided at the ballot boxes, not the courtrooms,” […]
ANCHORAGE: A new radio ad narrated by Alaska Native elder Willie Hensley is holding Dan Sullivan accountable for his anti-subsistence lawsuit against Katie John. As Attorney General, Sullivan litigated to take away Alaska Natives’ subsistence rights, a decision that has drawn widespread derision in rural Alaska. Though Sullivan has tried to cover up that lawsuit […]
In what seems an effort to derail the unified ticket of Governor candidate Bill Walker and Lt. Governor candidate Byron Mallott, who joined together from both the Republican and Democrat camps to run against the incumbent candidate, Sean Parnell, the District 21 Chairman of the Alaska Republican Party filed a lawsuit challenging the emergency regulation […]