Candidate
Forum Re-cap Calaveras County Supervisor Candidates Districts 1, 2 and 4.
Calaveras
County Taxpayers Association (CCTA) and the Copperopolis Community Center (CCC)
hosted a Candidates Forum at the Historic Armory on April 23, 2012.
District
1 includes Wallace, Burson, the downtown portion of Valley Springs, San
Andreas, and a lightly populated area between New Hogan Lake and Angels Camp.
Candidates: Gary Tofanelli, Valley Springs, incumbent, Cliff Edson, San
Andreas, owner of Country Cliff’s Café, Joe Kelly, Copperopolis, retired
rancher
District 2 includes a wide
swath of northern and central Calaveras County from Paloma to West Point and
south to the towns of Sheep Ranch, Calaveritas and Mountain Ranch. Candidates: Chris
Wright, Glencoe, Foothill Conservancy executive director, Bryce Randall, West
Point, owner West Point Trading Post, Michael Dell’Orto, Mokelumne Hill,
businessman and former supervisor, Tom Swartz, Paloma, businessman
District 4
includes
Copperopolis as well as Angels Camp. Candidates: Tom Tryon, Angels Camp, incumbent, Debbie
Ponte, Angels Camp, executive director Foothill Village Senior Living Community,
Russell Thomas, Copperopolis, businessman and former supervisor.
L to R : Tryon, Randall, Dell'Orto, Kelly, Edson, Thomas, Ponte.
Candidates
were asked a question from questions submitted by residents in attendance.
Questions were vetted by Copperopolis Community Center board members and
Calaveras County Taxpayers Association members. Candidates were each given a
limited amount of time to answer from two minutes to three minutes. Candidates
were rotated for each question. Due to the large turn-out of candidates each
question posed was only asked of two candidates, the following question were
asked of the next two candidates, and so on. The answers posted here are
condensed.
