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Yeego Travel Meetings and Events congratulates new Navajo president and vice president!

4/22/2015

Yeego Travel Meetings + Events sends hearty, heartfelt congratulations to Navajo President-Elect Russell Begaye and Vice-President Elect Jonathan Nez, who won the April 21, 2015 special presidential election. They will be officially sworn in, sometime in May.

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Russell Begaye

Mr. Begaye is a businessman from Shiprock, N.M., who served four years on the Navajo Nation Council. From Shonto, Ariz., Mr. Nez, is a Navajo Nation Council Delegate and a Navajo County District Supervisor. The Begay-Nez team ran on a platform of job-creation, enticement of new businesses to the Navajo Nation and infrastructure-improvement.

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Jonathan Nez

Mr. Nez is known in Indian Country as an avid long-distance runner, who hopes to run a marathon in all 50 states. We hope that he will come to Washington, DC to run the Rock 'n Roll Marathon, March 12, 2016!

Again, we offer our support and well-wishes to the new Navajo Nation leaders!