Trujillo centers presidential campaign on government management
Special to the Times | Donovan Quintero
Arvin Trujillo
CROWNPOINT
Arvin Trujillo has made government management the focus of his campaign for Navajo Nation president, arguing that poor administration has slowed services and contributed to unspent government funds.
In a July 8 interview, the Gad’íí’áí/Tókǫ’í candidate described his Executive Branch experience as preparation to change how the government operates.
“We’ve never really had true administrators, individuals who knew how to run large organizations,” Trujillo said of the Office of the President. “And so, for the first two years they’re learning, or three years they’re learning. And by the time the fourth year around, then they finally kind of get the hang of it. But not totally.”
He attributed the frustration he hears at chapter houses and candidate forums to “poor performance and poor service delivery.”
“We’ve got money sitting there,” he said. “We haven’t touched (it) because, again, we haven’t adequately looked at how do we manage and how do we look at prioritizing these areas.”
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