The Political Page, T+251 --- September 28, 2017 -- DAPL Protestor, Tribal Chief Voted Out Of Office

Good riddance!

Voted out of office, and not even close.

From sayantyingblog:

Standing Rock chairman who helped instigate #NoDAPL protests gets thumped in re-election campaign.

The often violent and often unlawful #NoDAPL protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline made David Archambault, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, something of a national and even international celebrity. He appeared on national television shows. He’s been on something of a lecture tour of college campuses and other venues. He even visited a United Nations event in Geneva.

But last night his fellow tribal members voted him out of office, and it wasn’t even close.

His opponent/the new chairman: “We kind of neglected our own” by taking the lead on the pipeline protest, he said. “We did what we had to do, but we didn’t realize we were going to hurt our economy that much.”

"Hurt our economy so much"? ---- Only way to interpret that is casino gambling revenues are way down.

I used to send contributions to a native American charity in South Dakota on a quarterly basis but with the DAPL protests, I sent a note to that charity informing them that my contributions would cease. They got the message; I no longer receive "solicitations" from them. A simple note from them saying they did not support the DAPL protests and I gladly would have continued the contributions. 

So, was Archambault voted out of office because he lost the battle with DAPL or because his protest was wrong for the tribe in the first place? For me, it does not matter. Good riddance!