Rita Bilagody, long-time Bennett Freeze activist from Tuba City, penned a letter to this week’s Navajo Times about the proposed Grand Canyon Escalade contract.
The following paragraphs were pulled out from Bilagody’s letter, which is available at, http://navajotimes.com/opinions/2014/0114/013014letters.php#.Uuu4AhBdWSo
President Shelly is ready to find a delegate to sponsor legislation to push a “Master Agreement” that has been “finalized” and “everything is ready” but in the next breath it is admitted that “it needs investors” and (to make things worse) they are “unaware” if the supposed Confluence Partners LLC has lined up the capital.
Does anyone else see the million red flags flapping briskly in the wind? Who in their sane mind conducts business like that? Would multimillion developments be allowed off the reservation in cities and towns with those kinds of terms? The mindset of Shelly and Mr. Tome and any Council delegate who sponsors this senseless legislation reads as follows: “We don’t know if the developers who initiated this idea have any money but we will ‘throw’ $60 million into a great big hole in the ground (Grand Canyon) as opposed to flushing it down the toilet like we usually do. But that’s only because it’s located on Bennett Freeze lands and we all know they have no water lines or electricity.