CANDIDATES’ STATEMENTS
Please remember to vote!
You may vote absentee
by mailing in your ballot.
OR
You may vote in person on
Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001
Siletz Tribal Community Center
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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input was to assure Tribal Council
accountability to the membership,
General Council members just the opposite outcome if the
have been totally ignored. I would recent proposed amendments had
passed.
Committee-hosted
like to see the General Council
meetings more productive and community meetings was only the
first step in the process. The next
informative for the membership.
step should have been to have full
For example, full up-to-date
financial reports on the tribe and discussions at General Council
meetings on the committee’s
Chinook Winds Casino should be
recommendations prior to a vote of
available at each meeting. Full
disclosure of any proposals or the people. Yet again, the
membership was ignored.
actions affecting the membership as
Upon direction of the Tribal
a whole, especially proposed
Council, the tribal chief of police
constitutional amendments, should
has been on duty and armed at the
take place at each meeting.
last two General Council meetings.
Although the membership
I believe this threatening presence
voted overwhelmingly at the
is wrong! After all, General Council
February 1999 General Council
meetings are for the membership.
meeting to have electronic voting
conducted by an independent No one should be fearful of
personal harm when attending
source, there has been no action
taken by the Tribal Council to meetings that are rightfully
for
within
our
assure that our voting process is fair provided
and honest. And, most recently, the Constitution.
I feel very strongly that it is
proposed constitutional amend
ments were not even discussed at the duty of Tribal Council members
to make decisions that benefit the
General Council meetings, even
though the Tribal Council entire membership, not just a select
developed these particular few or even themselves personally.
I commit to you that I will listen to
amendments over a year ago
your concerns and do everything
and ignored the proposed
possible to assure you that my
amendments developed through
actions will be in the best interest
community meetings.
The Constitution Committee of our tribe now and in the future.
Thank you for your support.
had held numerous community
Respectfully,
meetings for over a year. The
Pat Duncan
primary focus of tribal member
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Hello Everyone,
The past three years have
been good for the Siletz Tribe.
We have gotten our
Planning, Grant Writer, and
Economic Development staff up
and running smoothly. Other
positions within the Siletz office
and health clinic have been filled;
some have been vacant for awhile.
The Chinook Winds
Casino celebrated its fifth
anniversary. The solstices and
pow-wows have been well attended.
The only disruption this
Mary “Dolly ” Fisher
year has been the Notice of
Violation with the Tribal Council
or AKA Board of Directors for the casino. There have been no violations.
but the struggle still goes on. The Internet and perhaps some disgruntled
ex-Tribal Council recallees have access through the National Indian
Gaming Commission, so the report has gone nationwide. Our legal staff
has come up with a name of a previous tribal chairman who has been
involved. There are others, many family members of the five recalled
persons. Over 200 tribes have supported the Siletz Council. A present
Council member has access to all of the confidential information and we
know that is shared.
Tribal CounciPeltctfctoS ^ire coming up in February 2001.1 am a
candidate for that election and would deeply appreciate your vote
of support.
I have been on the Council for a few years, back to Restoration,
and I feel I have done the best possible. I have been honest and have a
good reputation in Indian country, which includes national and state
organizations. My goal has always been to do the best for our tribe.
Think it over and cast your ballot with your heart instead of the
rumors you read or hear.
My home phone number is 541 -444-2691. If you have a question
or concerns, please call.
Thank You Respectively,
Mary A. “Dolly” Fisher
Important Dates for this
Year’s Elections
Jan. 6, 2001
Candidates Fair - Keizer City
Keizer, Oregon, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Jan. 29, 2001
No more mail-in ballots will be sent out
Feb. 3, 2001
Election Day
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