Shirley gets a dose of Box Spring
President, Sandoval sit in on a meeting

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau

BLACK FALLS, Ariz. — Pauline Lefthand, 40, heard the news that Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. and his staff were supposed to be in Box Spring Dec. 5. “Yeah, right,”” she thought. He’s not going to have time for us way out here.”

She had never met the president. “I just knew his voice on the radio. I was really happy and surprised at the same time to see him,” she said. It didn’t matter to her that he was on administrative leave or that Vice President Ben Shelly had just fired the president’s chief of staff, Patrick Sandoval.

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