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Don’t call it a comeback, he’s been here for years! Joe Byrd is bringing his bad self out of political retirement and said he wants to be the guy who replaces Bill John Baker on the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council.
Byrd is one of five folks that are running. He’ll be facing: Raymond Vann, who turned in a couple of all-star performances in Deputy Chief debates before finishing with 7 per cent of the vote; Pam Iron, who finished third in the June election; Brandon Girty who finished with 4% of the vote in June, and Geneva Reeves, who we don’t know a lot about (maybe you can help us).
The Tulsa World had a story with some of the highlights/lowlights of Byrd’s era as a Principal Chief back in the 1990s.They earned the understatement of the year award by summing up the Byrd years by saying they “consisted of arguments on many levels of tribal government.”
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| LL Cool J reminds us Joe Byrd has been here for years. |
The election is set for January 14, with a runoff, if necessary, on February 18. At that point, we would finally have a full tribal council but the winner shouldn’t get too comfortable.
They’ll have about a year to decide if they want to run for re-election in 2013.
