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Date Posted: 07:42:57 04/29/03 Tue
This letter may be better understood if a person would go to this link http://www.cornsilks.com/realconedu.html either before or after
you read:
Blast from the past!!
The year was 1987, an election year for the new Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, only the 4th ever.
The Blast includes an act by one of our recently departed
Cherokee Warriors and Elder, Mr. Ben Shoemake..
The election reeked of fraud as had the three previous and all since, and this one in 2003 already smells to hi-heaven!!
In 1987, Wilma Mankiller was challenged by Perry Wheeler each with a slate of council candidates to do their biding. This was before districts; the councilors ran at large the top 15 vote getters were the anointed.
David Cornsilk came in 16th 9 votes short, there was a 17th, an 18th and a 19th with a hundred or so votes, and these facts are a significant part of the blast.
Though Mankiller won, her slate of yes people did not, so she set out to change that..David Cornsilk was approached an ask to call for a recount at no cost, he refused, number 17 was approached, he refused, same with number 18, number 19 was approached and agreed..
The election commission set it up, all set ready to count, in through the escape hatch in the back of the council chambers where the count was being held stormed Charlie Soap mankillers husband and some law official, yelling hold it up, hold it up, we found another box. It was inspected and without explanation declared same as the others.
The Cherokee Constitution says the JAT (Cherokee Supreme Court) may oversee a recount. NOTHING about conducting it!!
Next in storms Phillip Viles the Chief Justice, and associate Justice Jack Rider, They kick out the Election commission seated Joe Grayson Sr. a candidate in the election and his son, none other than the smith's running mate in this 2003 election, Joe Grayson Jr. to assist in the re-count.
The Recount begins with the newly found box, and quite oddly folks the machines that had just counted all the ballots during the voting day for some (un-explainable??) reason would not accept the ballots, they had to be hand counted, what you suspect that means? The count went into the wee hours of the morning.
When the process began David Cornsilk walked up to Jack Rider, and ask "is it proper to have a Candidate in the election involved with the recount", Rider in his noted for gruff voice said " did you pay for this recount" David said "NO", Rider said "then sit down and shut-up"..
At the end of the recount guess what??, Yes, Mankillers slate came out on top, and to make it look good mankiller gained ONE vote..And the number 19 guy was anointed shot all the way up to 2nd er third place..Strangely David and the other three candidates, 16, 17, and 18, count remained unchanged..
Well Some stuff hit the fan the next morning when the Election Commission was called on to certify the election Four refused to certify it, this is where the just departed Warrior (Ben Shoemake) was, yes he was an election Commissioner and one of the four that refused to certify the debacle, another was Florian Griggs, the very same Council candidate in a following election that was ruled ineligible because she lived outside the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma boundarys, and rented an apartment inside, just like the Candidate Smith has, in this CNO election of 2003..
Wilma showed up at the commission office raising Cain yelling they were tearing down the Cherokee Nation, she was shown the door by the commission.
Anyway Viles and his cohort of the JAT was called on to certify their own count, they did, and the Mankiller disease of The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma continues!!
Don't recall who the other two good guys were, but the fifth who thought all was fine with the fraudualistic debacle, guess who?? None other than Edith Locust Dalton, the Candidate on Smith's ticket as one of the slate of 11, who have sworn to serve the Chief rather than the people in their respective districts in this CNO election of 2003..
So what does that tell you district three voters?
Recall the mentioned of storming in of Viles and cohort, only two jurist. Well guess what, the third had just got kicked off the bench, seems a question had arose as to whether Swimmer had appointed a white man to the bench and his bunch of yes people on the council approved him with out checking him out. He was a white man.
Of course this is another story, one of the many in the short life of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma in its quest to hang on to power over the Cherokee peoples assets, not to govern!!
John Cornsilk
14013 N 524 Rd.
Tahlequah, Ok. 74464
(918)456-7753
PS: there is no way to tell this story a fewer number of words, if you can not use it thats fine!
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