Sheriff Mark Lamb

I said, no, I'm going to run for sheriff.

They said, get out of here.

And I said, OK.

I put in my application to go to Pinal County.

Six months later, a year later, I was over there at Pinal County with the intention of running for sheriff eventually.

But this is 2011 I said I would run for sheriff.

I went to Pinal in 2012.

And spent two years there.

And then I told my wife one day, I said, honey, I think it's about time to leave and start to lay the groundwork.

I got to go make money so that I can run for sheriff.

And so I went to reserve status and then I went back out into the private sector and built a marketing company and a business.

We ended up being a solar company right before I ran for office.

But that was what was able to get me financially to be able to do the sheriff thing.

But really, it was large in part because I couldn't stand to see what was going on.

I couldn't watch as our country was changing, fundamentally changing.

I wanted to be part of the solution, not the problem.

Why did you pick Pinal County?

Because I lived in Pinal County, so you have to live in the county.

If you're going to run for sheriff, you've got to live in whatever county that you're going to run for sheriff in.

I moved to Pinal in 2008, but I decided to run for sheriff in 2011.