BY MIKE KILLLBREATH
CCN Executive Editor
MUNDY TWP. (CCN) — Jennifer Arrand Stainton won the November 2024 election for Mundy Township Supervisor by a landslide margin. Just days after she is eligible to face a recall, one defeated candidate in the last election filed seven proposed sets of language to remove her from office.
"The voters ele
BY MIKE KILLLBREATH
CCN Executive Editor
MUNDY TWP. (CCN) — Jennifer Arrand Stainton won the November 2024 election for Mundy Township Supervisor by a landslide margin. Just days after she is eligible to face a recall, one defeated candidate in the last election filed seven proposed sets of language to remove her from office.
"The voters elected me to a four-year term and I will fight this," vowed Stainton who defeated incumbent Tonya Ketzler by more than 500 voters a year ago when becoming the first Republican elected as Supervisor in her township since 1912.
Democrat Kimberly Jimenez, who received 1,192 votes at the ballot box when voters ousted her from office as a Trustee last November, filed the proposed language Monday with the office of Genesee County Clerk Domonique Clemons. She needs signatures from register voters who amount to 25% of those from Mundy Township who voted in the last gubernatorial election if one of her proposed language wordings is approved by the Genesee County Election Committee.
A hearing date has not yet been set by Clerk Clemons.
The committee consists of Clemons, Genesee County Chief Probabe Judge Jenny Barkey and Genesee County Treasurer Sam Muma.
If they approve language to go on recall petitions, Jimenez would need to collect the necessary signatures during a 60-day window within a six-month period.
Jimenez would need to find a candidate to oppose Stainton and sources say Ketzler is not interested in running again. Stainton's landslkde victory included getting 5,081 votes to the incumbent's 4,512.
Two other recalls are on the horizon in Genesee County townships while recall language has already been filed in two other communities within the Metro Flint Regional Area. (See Related Story at right if reading on a laptop or PC, or scroll down if reading on a mobile device)
CCN reported last week that Clayton Township Supervisor Ted Henry is being targeted and six members on the Grand Blanc Township board members had recall language filed against them on Friday. (Nov. 21, 2025). They include Supervisor Scott Bennett, Clerk Dave Robertson, Treasurer Mike Yancho Sr., and Trustees Joel Feick, Paul White and Sarah Hugo.
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Former Clayton Township Super Rod Shumaker said he has already gone door-to-door, talking with residents how Henry voted with a 4-3 decision to pay himself more than $117,000 with township funds. "Not one person I've talked to can believe it," Shumaker said while saying a recall will be filed against Henry, and possibly three others who voted to allow the wages to be paid out.
Henry has defended his wages by saying he also work at the township as the Building Inspector and as the Code Enforcement officer.
Stainton's primary supporter on her board, first term Trustee Leah Davis, has been rumored to be soon facing a recall, too. Stainton said she has not yet talked to Trustee Davis since learning from a county Clerk's office employee that the recall language had been submitted against her.
Trustee Damon Brown was the only Grand Blanc Township board member not targeted in a recall filed there by Monica Shapiro.
She's the co-host of a local podcast after running unsuccessfully for Supervisor against Bennett in 2024.
PHOTO CAPTION: Pictured above this story is Jennifer Arrand Stainton who had recall language filed against her on Monday.
BY MIKE KILLLBREATH
CCN Executive Editor
(CCN) — Two hearings have been set for the latest recalls to surface in Genesee County. The Genesee County Election Commission will meet on Monday (Dec. 1, 2025) to review proposed language filed against six board members in Grand Blanc Township while a Dec. 9 hearing has been set for proposed langu
BY MIKE KILLLBREATH
CCN Executive Editor
(CCN) — Two hearings have been set for the latest recalls to surface in Genesee County. The Genesee County Election Commission will meet on Monday (Dec. 1, 2025) to review proposed language filed against six board members in Grand Blanc Township while a Dec. 9 hearing has been set for proposed language submitted to recall Mundy Township Supervisor Jennifer Arrand Stainton.
Recall language was already approved earlier this month in Gaines Township and in the City of Montrose.
Others are rumored to be on the horizon soon across the Metro Flint regional area..
Genesee County Clerk Domonique Clemons launched a special page on the county's web site to help everyone keep track of all the recalls.
Elected officials in Michigan can't be subject to a recall until they've served one year of a four-year term or six months of a two-year term.
Clemons said, "With less than a year from City of Flint elections, their recall window has passed, but now that a year has passed from the township elections, we have just entered our township recall season."
Next up may be others on the Mundy Township Board of Trustees or members on the Clayton Township Board of Trustees, according to multiple sources. Recall threats have been voiced for months in various other communities.
Montrose Mayor Thomas Banks had two sets of language submitted against him, and one was approved. It cited removing the former City Manager (Barbara Valentine) without cause as the reason to remove Mayor Banks from office.
Former Flushing Mayor Joseph Karlichek was hired as interim City Manager in late May.
Language submitted against two Montrose City Council members (Todd Pangle and Lori Machuk) was rejected by the Genesee County election Commission which consists of County Clerk Domonique Clemons, County Treasurer Sam Muma and Chief County Probate Court Judge Jenny Barkey.
The commission ruled that Machuk was not yet eligible to face a recall.
Six sets of language were turned in against two Gaines Township officials — three sets each against Supervisor Daniel Jenkins and Treasurer Robert Henderson. Two were rejected against each but one was approved against each man.
Republican Jenkins unseated incumbent Republican Paul Fortino in the August 2024 primary and Henderson beat incumbent Democrat Treasurer Diane Hyrman in the November 2024 general election.
State law requires that hearings must be set at least 10 days after proposed recall language is filed and within 20 days.
Both hearings will be in the courtroom of Chief Genesee County Probate Judge Jenny Barkey. She's on the Genesee County Election Commission with Clerk Clemons and Treasurer Sam Muma.
"Unfortunately Mundy was submitted too far after we called Grand Blanc Township's date for it to be the same hearing date," Clemons said while confirming that nothing has been filed yet in Clayton Township. He added: "We have not calculated the exact numbers for these recalls yet. We give an official calculation once the language is approved(and added to website). But the math is always the same — number of signatures required equals 25% of votes cast for call candidates for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election in that district. Once approved recall language is good for circulation for 180 days, but each individual signature is only considered valid for 60 days before expiring."
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