BEARS EARS ACTIVISTS LOSE SPOTS ON SAN JUAN COMMISSION
During their four-year tenure as commissioners, Maryboy and Grayeyes had an opportunity to cement gains made after creation of the monument; it was an opportunity lost
By Bill Keshlear
Yesterday’s election closes a chapter in the 12-year saga of Bears Ears activists Willie Grayeyes and Kenneth Maryboy to protect Cedar Mesa (aka Bears Ears) in southeast Utah.
The two Democrats lost bids by whopping margins in attempts to hold on to their San Juan (Utah) County Commission seats – four-year tenures enabled by a federal judge's 2017 ruling on redistricting and Salt Lake City-based Democrats that began in 2019 with a downward spiral of legal maneuvering, stonewalling of requests for transparency, lack of trust, pettiness, pique and peevishness and has ended with prospects of an audit by the state Legislature into potential violations of Utah’s Open and Public Meetings Act by the two San Juan County commissioners and undue influence by outside individuals into how the commission is run. Follow link to read more:
