On Monday, August 21, 2023, a UNANIMOUS vote by the Mohave Board of Supervisors denied the Mohave County Republican Chair Jeanne Kentch’s disgusting political attack on her opponent, the lawfully elected Director of District 2 Misty Devenney (who won 2/3 of her vote by a landslide). Kentch filed a bogus injunction against harassment which was served upon Devenney’s win and Kentch shuttered the Mohave Republican offices. Kentch is very light on any actual evidence and seeks to punish dissent and Free Speech. The Injunction is currently being appealed.
Kentch then moved against multiple Precinct Committeemen including Devenney, stating their positions were vacant when this was not true. During her testimony (video below) Kentch outed herself as abusing her power, constantly playing the victim like a Democrat would and using lawfare like a liberal. Many PCs spoke against Kentch during the Board of Supervisors meeting, also dispelling the lies that it is only a “small group of disruptors” a common lie that other RINOs like Jeff Dewit frequently tell. She lied several other times including that she had “unanimous support form her board” and you can clearly see that 2 board members including the 1st Vice Chair (only 6 of the 8 did) did not sign her false letter below.
Misty Devenney had this to say: “Yesterday was a victory! Yet District 2 Office is still closed and a lot more work has to be done! I’m standing up for myself, my district, and my country. Beyond the absolute absurdity of these proceedings and wasteful time and expense to the Mohave County tax payers without one example, situation or detailed evidence of my “bad behavior” was stated or provided, yet again! It is a very ALARMING fact the elected Mohave County Tax Assessor Ms. Jeanne Kentch so egregiously miscalculated 3.5 weeks since winning my election as District 2 Director on July 27, 2023. That Ms. Kentch herself declared then barred me from fulfilling my duties, to Equal and equate to 3 months Vacancy of seat and duties. Not only misrepresenting this fact once but multiple times! Seriously raises questions on her ability to perform simple calculations.”
Comment was sought from Jeanne Kentch and the Mohave County GOP but they did not respond as of the update time to this article.
Judge for yourself and watch the videos below:
Mohave Board of Supervisors Agenda Item 8 Comments and Vote:
Call to the Public Comments Many of Which Are in Support of Devenney:
Thank you Brian Ference for your support, reporting and devotion to informing the public of the truth. Yesterday was a victory! Yet District 2 Office is still closed and a lot more work has to be done! I’m standing up for myself, my district, and my country.
Beyond the absolute absurdity of these proceedings, wasteful time and expense to the Mohave County tax payers without one example, situation or detailed evidence of my “bad behavior” was stated or provided, yet again!
It is a very ALARMING fact the elected Mohave County Tax Assessor Ms. Jeanne Kentch so egregiously miscalculated 3.5 weeks since winning my election as District 2 Director on July 27, 2023. That Ms. Kentch herself declared then barred me from fulfilling my duties, to Equal and equate to 3 months Vacancy of seat and duties. Not only misrepresenting this fact once but multiple times! Seriously raises questions on her ability to perform simple calculations. Duties are to assist with voter registration not produce quantitative quotas! As provided below:
The minimum duties of a precinct committeeman shall be to assist the precinct committeeman’s political party in voter registration and to assist the voters of that political party to vote on election days.
https://www.azleg.gov › ars
16-822 – Precinct committeemen; eligibility; vacancy; duties; term
On June 18, 2023 after completion of the Voter Registration event District 2 held at the Bullhead City Gun Show, just 65 days ago! I personally turned over 3 completed voter registration, 79 signatures of volunteers for hand counting ballots that District 2 Volunteers collectively obtained to my District Director Cary Asel who intern gave to Ms. Kentch! As our forms were to be presented to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors to show we had enough volunteers to complete hand counting ballots at a minimal cost at the June 19th meeting.
Hmm uh oh another calculation and if anyone is wondering 3 months ago from yesterday was May 21, 2023.
President Trump is 100% accurate that they are not after him but us! Uniparty antics being played locally, through malicious baseless lawfare against any everyday American.
I might quiver in adversity, but wholeheartedly committed to serve my city, my district, my county, my state and country; with every fiber of my being till we return to a:
Nation of lawfulness, A Nation with protected Borders where justice, liberty and pursuit of happiness reigns again under a governed upheld constitutional Republic by the people and for the people of these United States.
Thank you again Brian, may our Republic heal and be restored sooner than later.
God Bless everyone!
God Bless America!
Sincerely
Misty Devenney
Kentch is also the Mohave County assessor. Imagine having a lying assessor!
In addition to going after MCRCC District 2 Director, Misty, at the BOS she went after Dr. Christina Dumal. Moreover Kentch took her law fare into the Justice of the Peace (JoP) arena as she served the above 2 plus Donna Ramirez with workplace harassment injunctions. Workplace Harassment has to be due to something that occurred at the Bullhead City GOP office during the stated dates on the injunction. Misty was only at the office during stated dates for a prayer mtg, after the GOP office was closed. There are witnesses who can attest that no harassment occurred at that time. The other 2 PCs were not at the office at any of the stated times.
Also note the video played by Cary Asel involving Jim Fuller. That incident was on a Thursday afternoon as the office was open, right before the prayer mtg. Jim Fuller was upset about Scott Presler being gay. He was standing over Rose Jacobs demeaning Scott and Rose finally had enough when she jumped up and confronted Jim. Incident rpts were submitted to Kentch but nothing was done. Jim also did this another time in the office with 2 other PCs, screaming F..You as he stormed out of the office. Brian, I wish that you could get this info to Rick Grenell on Twitter so that he could address it. Scott has done so much to help the GOP in voter registration and his lifestyle has nothing to do with that.
Thank you Brian Ference;
Jeanne Kentch has been silencing people for many years which is why I cannot ever support her. We are American’s who’s families have served this country and have fought for our freedoms. When we see that an individual who is working within any political party to destroy our freedoms and who is abusing her power to censor Americans, we should know that our country is in big trouble.
Jeanne Kentch runs several social media sites and works to obtain complete control over whoever volunteers under her tyrannical regime. This is not what America is based on, this is what tyrants and dictators do. This issue has been brought up to her several times publicly years ago when she asked me to become a PC and after I spke out against her censorship her boyfriend made threats at me.
I’d like to point out a few key points that should be carefully examined and listened to because these types of statements made by Jeanne Kentch lead the listener to believe there is something deeper going on within the leaders of the GOP.
At 10:48 in the 8/21/23 BOS meeting video, Kentch admits that if the people have elected a PC then it would be up to the people to recall any elected official, “The people would have to recall”, however she does not pay the same respect to Misty Devenny’s electoral win and in fact has gone the route of using the judicial system to try and keep Devenny out of her (Devenny’s) own office in district 2. This is completely unamerican and diabolical. This is the kind of “bad behavior” that RINOS do.
To have an injunction filed against ANYONE who is volunteering to work within a political party to help our republic is ludicrous and unreasonable.
At 2:28:24 we all heard Ms. Kentch utter the words “I spoke to the Arizona GOP chairman Jeff DeWit this weekend at a chairman meeting and he agrees with my argument; he believes Chairs to be able to lead as necessary and the chairman agreed”
Kentch brought up Jeff DeWit as if our freedom-loving board members were supposed to bow down to the name-dropping tactic, but are we to assume that Mr. DeWit put Ms. Kentch up to filing all these injunctions? Are we to assume that Kentch is working as a puppet for Jeff DeWit? Has Jeff DeWit also practiced suing his own PC’S and filing “harassment” claims against thier 1st Amendment rights to speak?
Recall the AZCENTRAL May 22, 2023 news article “Kari Lake confronts AZ GOP chairman and disaster ensues (for Republicans)” when Kari Lake confronted Jeff DeWit in a restaraunt
“I’m talking about the other verdict — on the pressing question of whether the party’s new state chairman, Jeff DeWit, will cut through the crazy and return the Arizona Republican Party to its once-winning ways.
Short answer: Nope.”
At 2:20:00 of the video posted, Supervisor Jean Bishop asked the question of Jeanne Kentch; what is going to prevent you from coming back to the Board over and over again and requesting that others be removed until they get along if we vote to approve the vacancies? And the reply from Kentch was “I don’t know if there’s anything that can prevent it; (so, is Jeanne Kentch planning on continuing this sort of “bad behavior” in filing injunction after injunction for what she claims is “bad behavior” to silence people’s freedoms to speak and to debate and to argue?). Our founding fathers spent many hours arguing and debating.
GOOGLE; “Did the Founding Fathers like each other?
In reality, they had extremely different views on all sorts of issues, including the role of the federal government, the issue of slavery, and how radical or moderate the American Revolution should be. At times, these differences of opinion destroyed friendships and threatened to pull the country apart. Jul 28, 2021”
At 2:29:53 Kentch goes on to admit to Supervisor Jean Bishop that “There isn’t anything, you’re right, but I’ll tell you the rest of the counties are waiting for this to happen so that they can also do the same thing if they have to”.
This statement sounds a bit conspiratorial and is setting a precedence for other counties to sue their own PC’S over and over again. How is this attractive to individuals who would like to get involved with their parties and be the patriots that our founding fathers were?
What Kentch has done and what Brian Ference rightfully points out is abuse of her power in her capacity of “Chairwoman of the MCRCC” using the judicial system; but this is not the first accusation against Jeanne Kentch; she has been accused of abusing her power by our own sheriff, Doug Schuster; when Kentch’s boyfriend was charged with 3 felonies that Sheriff Schuster exposed her on a radio show hosted by Larry Tuna; these felonies were pointed out by Dr. Chris Dumal at the 8/21/23 BOS meeting at 1:21:00. Dr. Chris cited a Havasu news article publishing that Jeanne Kentch accused our sheriff of “retaliation” after Kentch’s boyfriend was charged with 3 felonies. Shooting his gun off at 3 minor kids is hardly inexcusable.
Misty Devenny was voted District 2 manager by WE THE PEOPLE, and we the people are the majority, however Kentch was planning on the mayors wife taking that position, so Kentch was forced to try anything “toxic” as she puts it. And she is doing something similar to wha happened to another district manager Becky Foster in district 1 who also spoke at the 8/21/23 BOS meeting.
The biggest disappointment to all of the district 2 PCS is the fact that our own supervisor Hildy Anguis turned her back on everyone of us and then dared to call some of us her “friends” while pointing out that the GOP is a “private” group so as to make the audience believe Jeanne Kentch’s claims of “Bad behavior should also have consequences” are true. With friends like that…
Our freedoms are being attacked in Mohave County and Bullhead City Arizona, there is a huge problem with censorship and our country is in trouble because of people like Jeanne Kentch. What is to become of freedom-loving patriots? Will we all be thrown in jail at the hands of tyrannical leaders as is practiced among other dictators?
God bless the United States of America and the freedom-loving Americans who do and will stand for freedom.
This really saddens me. I am an elected precinct committeeman and a state committeeman. The Republican party has been a HOT MESS almost from the time I decided to become a PC and it has not gotten any better. It is painful to see, IN A PUBLIC ARENA AND IN THE COURTS, the “dirty laundry” and inability of the Chairman to unite the party even as she is in a second (maybe third) term.
I was told by an “at large” national committeeman recently that he works for the Chairman and the Republican Party is PRIVATE; and does not have to recognize the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. WOW! That opinion was echoed by Supervisor Hildy Angius, who is now running for a seat in the Arizona Legislature.
Supervisor Gould, who also is a precinct Committeeman and a State Committeeman (for 28 years), stated he did NOT give up his right to free speech when he became a PC. NOR DID I. It is one of the most basic and precious rights we have as AMERICANS.
If three Republican women can be gagged and a legal election (won by a whopping 75%) thrown out by a thin-skinned, power-hungry, self-serving officer of the party for what that officer deemed was “bad behavior” (basically dissension and expressing their opinions). …it can happen to YOU or ME. No examples or proof were offered up by Kentch after repeated requests by Supervisor Bishop.
What about HER “bad behavior”? Plenty of blame to go around there. . Bad behavior is in the eye of the beholder. Kinda like it depends on whose ox is getting gored. FREE SPEECH.
Free speech is not always pretty, sweet or eloquent; or necessarily NICE OR POLITICALLY CORRECT. Except for very narrow circumstances, it is PROTECTED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION!!!!
Jeanne Kentch seeks to shred the first amendment because she cannot tolerate criticism or anyone pointing out her failure to LEAD. She is very good at self-promotion but sadly lacks leadership skills. We should all follow our leaders but not when they are running full speed off of a political cliff.
Not this girl!!
I spoke before the Board of Supervisors to defend the First Amendment. Ironically, a DEMOCRAT, Jaime Morgaine, spoke eloquently and knowledgeably on the legal basis for dismissing precinct committeemen; and why the Board should not approve the Republican Chairman’s request. Kudos to her. Uh, oh…. I might get gagged for praising a Democrat for a good presentation!!!
This gave me the opportunity to spend MY 3 minutes on FREEDOM OF SPEECH as well as my unpleasant experience as District 1 Director under this Chairman.
If Republicans want to win elections, we need to unite, I can agree on that and I believe we all do. However, wearing T-Shirts that state UNITE, being ordered by the leader to UNITE, and seeking to dismiss loyal Republican workers for exercising their right to free speech is not going to unite the party.
It takes strong LEADERSHIP, someone who is INTROSPECTIVE, LISTENS, has VISION, is OPEN MINDED, EMPATHETIC, HONEST and who has the ability to INSPIRE people among other qualities. Unfortunately, the current chairman does not possess these qualities.
I think the current MCRCC board, with the exception of the ONE member who did not follow like a sheep to castigate these women for speaking their minds, should RESIGN. Shame on them! Hats off to Ashley Gerich, first vice-chair, for not signing on. Ashley gets it!!!
It is curious to me how 4 of five Board members, The Chairman, 2nd Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer plus District 1 and District 3 Directors could sign off on something this egregious and not have a vote of the entire membership of PCs.
Money was spent (we may never know how much) on the party’s favorite attorney out of Phoenix (the Chair seems to love racking up legal fees paid for by the donations we all work so hard for) as well as whatever else was spent to get rid of people that the Chairman does not like.
I seriously doubt that the Chairman would have been given the green light on this by a vote of the entire membership. The Board only wants the membership to do the work at ground level and blindly follow like sheep. Most of the membership, I am sure, were not hitherto aware of what happened.
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME.!! Those 6 people should immediately resign to restore honor and confidence to the party…. then maybe there will be a real chance to truly UNITE. Until that happens it will just be same old, same old. What a shame and embarrassment. It makes me very sad.
How these Republicans can rant on and on about “stolen” elections and then just do away with a legitimate election because they do not like the winner just BLOWS MY MIND! I am ashamed for this party. It is both saddening and sickening to me.
The Republican party needs new leadership from top to bottom as soon as possible so we can win elections before it is too late…instead of “eating its own” so to speak.
Brian Ference, You said “The Injunction is currently being appealed.” When is the hearing?
I have not been given the date yet