Frankie Goes to Tahlequah

Cherokees just keep on voting, and they keep on electing folks from Adair County.  According to the Cherokee Nation’s web site, Stilwell’s Frankie Hargis (an internet enigma) won the runoff. 

According to the Native American Times, Hargis will be serving the rest of Crittenden’s term, which gives her until August 14, 2013. 

We don’t know a whole lot about Frankie besides she’s female and likes to hug Joe Crittenden in victory celebrations.  

We’ve heard from reliable sources that she’s a good friend of Jodi F. Hawk and worked for the Cherokee Nation until she decided to run for council.  Tell us more about what you know, as the Cherokee Nation welcomes its newest council person. 

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We're impatient.  We don't usually deal in rumors and speculation, but there haven't been any media reports yet on who won/lost or is in a runoff.  So we're just going to pass on what we've heard hopefully be able to confirm it pretty soon. 

What we've heard is that Joe Adair and Frankie Hargis are going to be in a runoff, which will be December 3.  

We don't have a whole lot more information than that at this point.  

There's good news and bad news on this: If you google Joe or Frankie, you'll find Cherokee Truth right there at the top of information about them.  That means people are paying attention to us.  The bad news is, there's not a lot out there on the interwebs for folks to learn about them. 

We've got a few weeks to learn more, and then one of them will be taking Joe Crittenden's place on the Tribal Council.

Frankie Hargis hugging S. Joe Crittenden-- Photo Courtesy Cherokee Phoenix