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Bates shares story about his feline office companion
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – If Furrball was a Navajo Nation government, she would have received a raise for outstanding work.
But she does have the unofficial, official title of Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker Mouse Catcher.
Or maybe it should be Mouse Killer.
Speaker LoRenzo Bates said Furrball came to his office when he was speaker pro tem.
Bates became pro tem in April 2014, after the council placed then Speaker Johnny Naize on administrative leave with pay for not maintaining his “good standing” qualification to be speaker.
Naize’s good standing came into question after the tribal Special Prosecutors filed criminal...