Lamb challenger knocked off primary ballot for Pinal sheriff
by Jim Headley | Casa Grande Dispatch
Tim Gustafson poses with his wife, Debbie, at World of Life Church in Mesa, where they are associate pators./Wordoflifemesa.org
An election nomination petition filed by the only candidate challenging incumbent Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb has been invalidated by a Superior Court judge.
The case was heard in Pinal County Superior Court after Lamb filed a lawsuit challenging about 130 signatures on Tim Gustafson’s party nomination petition. Lamb’s challenge successfully invalidated 127 of those signatures.
In a written decision on April 29, Judge Kevin White said the number of valid signatures gathered by Gustafson to put him on the Republican Party’s primary ballot on Aug. 4 was just not enough.
