A Pinal County group is seeking to recall District 2 Supervisor Bryan Martyn over his approval last month of a $33.5 million county bond issue.
The application for a recall petition, filed last week by a county resident, said Martyn has “consistently made decisions and proposed schemes which were contrary to the wishes of the people he was elected to represent.”
County supervisors in July authorized the sale of the bonds supported by Pinal County’s sales tax revenue.
Martyn was the first Republican to be elected as a Pinal County supervisor when he won the post in 2008.
The sales-tax backed bonds were rated AA-minus by Standard & Poor’s.
The bond proceeds include $12 million to build county administrative buildings and two public health clinics, and $19.2 million to refund outstanding certificates of obligation issued in 2001 for work on the courthouse and other county facilities.
Recall leader Kenneth Baker charged in the petition that Martyn has failed to “root out corruption in a county that is arguably the most corrupt in the country.”
Baker said he warned Martyn before the July vote that a recall attempt would be made if the supervisor supported the measure to sell the bonds.
Martyn said the recall effort was misguided, but supported the right of citizens to express their grievances.
“As a person who has been outspoken regarding the rights of citizens, I support all democratic processes, including this one,” he said.
The recall campaign must submit 10,562 signatures of registered voters to the county elections department by Nov. 19. The earliest date for a recall election would be March 2011.
