THE CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE
Where every candidate can go on record
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D · An open invitation Every candidate — interviewed or not — is welcome here. Answers are posted in the candidate’s own words, exactly as given. How we verify →
Not every candidate has sat down for an interview yet — that’s a scheduling fact, never a judgment. So here is a second door, open to everyone on the ballot. Six plain questions about fixes any winner could make right now. Answer what you want, skip what you want, and where a multiple-choice answer doesn’t fit, choose “other” and say it your way. We never score, rank, or grade these. We post your words and let the voters read them.
How it works
For candidates: read the six questions below, pick the answer closest to your view on each (or “other”), and add anything you’d like to explain. Then send it to us — the button at the bottom opens an email with the questions ready to answer, or you can write us however is easiest. We post what you send, verbatim, next to your name. For voters: as candidates respond, their answers appear on their profiles, so you can compare in their own words. Silence is never counted as an answer — an empty response means we haven’t heard yet, nothing more.
The six questions
Each one is about a fix that needs no election and no reform — a budget line, a filing cabinet, a memo, or a vote. The full detail on each is on What needs to happen now.
1. Publishing the current law
The published Navajo Nation Code stops around 2009. Would you fund and direct a current, public codification so a voter, a worker, or a judge can read the law in one place?
- Yes — and I would put it in the budget I submit
- Yes in principle, but I’d need to see the cost
- No — I don’t think this is a priority
- Other / it’s more complicated — explain below
2. Publishing the rulings
The decisions that define “just cause” at work are not public. Would you direct that they be posted so workers can learn the standard they’re judged by?
- Yes
- Yes, with conditions
- No
- Other / it’s more complicated — explain below
3. Protecting the watchdog
Right now the Auditor General can be removed by the body it audits, and oversight isn’t fully funded. Would you protect and fund the watchdog’s independence?
- Yes — protect and fund it
- Fund it, but I’d keep current removal rules
- No
- Other / it’s more complicated — explain below
4. Working with the chapters
These fixes need the people, the chapters, and the leaders together. Do you see a concrete role for chapters — resolutions, testimony — in making them happen?
- Yes — and I’d actively bring chapters in
- Somewhat — mostly a Council/executive job
- No — this is for elected leaders to handle
- Other / it’s more complicated — explain below
5. A public checklist of what government posts
Would you adopt, for your office, a public checklist of what an open government posts — budgets, contracts, decisions, and the law itself?
- Yes — for my office, starting day one
- Yes, phased in over time
- No
- Other / it’s more complicated — explain below
6. A progress scorecard
Would you publish a public scorecard on these fixes so the people can check your progress in a year?
- Yes — a public, regular scorecard
- Yes, but internal/periodic
- No
- Other / it’s more complicated — explain below
TAKE ACTION
Candidates: go on the record.
Send us your answers — pick an option on each, or write it your way. We post your words exactly as given, next to your name. No scoring, no grading, ever.