Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised at what we are witnessing playing out in San Juan County. After all, when the deck has been so heavily stacked in your favor for generations, it would have to be hard to give that up without a fight.
And fighting is what they’re doing, tooth and nail, to oust a democratically elected commissioner, to undo a historic election and to make sure the Navajo population — which outnumbers the whites — are denied equal representation in their government.
Last summer, we saw the county clerk, John David Nielson, conspire with Wendy Black — a former candidate for the county commission — to falsify a complaint against Democratic candidate Willie Grayeyes and to challenge his residency and eligibility to run.