Yavapai County Board of Supervisors District 2 candidates Wiley Cline and Camp Verde Mayor Marie Moore laid out their cases why they should be the Republican nominee for the position at a Camp Verde High School Turning Point USA forum at the Phillip England Center on June 16.
Cline previously ran to represent District 2, which covers the largest area of land in the county and encompasses everything from Rimrock, Cornville and Camp Verde to Dewey-Humboldt, in 2020 and 2024. A fourth-generation Arizona native, Cline was born and raised in Gila County and has lived in Cornville for 25 years. Now retired from law enforcement, he has worked in everything from drilling water wells to building roads and airports, and served nearly two years as production and safety supervisor at Yavapai-Apache Redi-Mix.
“I’ve lived in the Verde Valley, mostly in Camp Verde, since I’ve been 9 years old,” Moore said. “I was raised in a ranching family, so I was raised pretty remotely during that time. I graduated from Mingus Union High School. Met my husband when I was 18, and we’ve been married ever since.”
Moore is the mother to three daughters and has two granddaughters. One of her earliest jobs was working in the Camp Verde Municipal Court at 16, “so I’ve had the opportunity to really get involved in a lot of different branches of government.” She opened a small business on Main Street and was involved in revitalization efforts of the downtown area.
The candidates split on what they see as most essential services for District 2 and where they see the greatest need for improvement from Yavapai County.
“County services, the most essential, that’s your law enforcement,” Cline said. “The one that I can say needs the most improvement is Development Services. Permitting is an absolute nightmare. What I would like to do is get with the manager of Development Services and see if there’s a way to streamline it where people don’t wait months for a permit.”
“With the health care crisis that’s happening across the country, and especially in Arizona, it’s important to make sure that we’re looking into that and making sure that our rural communities are having more health care availability to them, and to be able to have a Yavapai County health care facility in their area,” Moore said.
Cline called for expanding flood retention basins, fire breaks, mastication of brush in a “mosaic pattern” so wildlife has somewhere to go, and working for communities to have a second evacuation route in the event of an emergency.
Moore focused on fire district coverage gaps and lobbying to ensure federal funding in the form of payment-in-lieu of taxes.
With no Democrats running for the position, the winner of the Republican primary will be the presumptive next District 2 supervisor and will move on to an uncontested November general election. The winner will succeed District 2 appointee Dee Jenkins, the former Camp Verde mayor who was seated in April 2025 after James Gregory resigned to become chief of the Williams Police Department. If the winner wishes to be reelected, they will have to run for the four-year term seat in 2028.
