Rocky Boy election winners sworn in

The Chippewa Cree Tribe Business Committee on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation swore into office its four new members this morning.

Ethan Broncho, with 579 votes, Joseph “Joey” Rosette, 495, William “Corky” Corcoran, 468, and Lenore Myers-Nault, 422, were sworn in at 9 a.m., the tribe announced, and the Business Committee will have its reorganization meeting at 1 p.m.

The four new members beat Daryl Wright II, 388, Theodore Edward Whitford, 346, Jody Ann Lamere, 324, and Michelle Billy, 306, in the general election Nov. 8. The eight candidates total vying in the general election for a position on the council were the top vote-getters out of 35 candidates in the primary election held Oct. 4.