Restore the Balance rates Delta County municipal candidates Restore the Balance - Delta County, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to build "an alternative to political extremism," surveyed candidates running for the municipal elections in Delta, Cedaredge, Crawford, Orchard City, Hotchkiss, and Paonia and recently released its scores. RTB-Delta County sent questionnaires to 34 municipal candidates running in the six municipal elections running concurrently in April. The questionnaire consisted of nine questions and addressed three primary categories: the candidates' qualifications for office, their grasp of important issues, and their ability to abstain from partisan politics and ideology. Of the 34 candidates, 19 responded. With the completed questionnaires, RTB-Delta County Election Task Force members reviewed and evaluated the candidates' essay-style responses based on RTB's guiding principles, which promote nonpartisan, good-faith, civil discourse and reject political violence and extremism. The task force members independently scored the candidates' responses to each question, with 7 being the highest score. Candidates who didn't respond to the survey did not receive a score. Town of Cedaredge William Anderson - N/A Randy Baldwell - N/A Cordell Chapman - 6.1 Tracy Gist - N/A Greg Hart-6.6 - Gary Henderson N/A Justin Hoffbauer - N/A Jerry Pippin - N/A Town of Crawford Wanda Gofforth - 5.6 Chris Johnson -5.5 N/A N/A Cherri Olson John Patton John Jeff Peed-5.8 Gill Saunders-N/A Jay Ziegler - 5.8 City of Delta Nathan Clay -6.1 Dan Korthuis -4.8 Ron White - N/A Town of Hotchkiss Roger Christian -5.5 Jim Jorgensen - N/A Tricia McFarland - N/A Randall Thalmann - 3 N/A Candidate did not respond to the questionnaire so RTB-Delta County couldn't provide a rating. To see the questionnaires and the candidate responses or learn more about Restore the Balance, please visit www.rtbdeltacounty.org. Orchard City Michael Hansen - 6 Wade Kasman - N/A Richard Kirkpatrik - 6.1 David Murphy - N/A Will Punkoney-3.2 David R Stueck-N/A Kevin Walsh - 5.3 Town of Paonia Bill Bruner - 5.8 Walter Czech - 5.7 Linda McCone-5.8 Paige Smith 5.9 Kathryn Swartz 6.1 We can build an alternative to political extremism. Restore the Balance rates Delta County municipal candidates Restore the Balance - Delta County , a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to build " an alternative to political extremism , " surveyed candidates running for the municipal elections in Delta , Cedaredge , Crawford , Orchard City , Hotchkiss , and Paonia and recently released its scores . RTB - Delta County sent questionnaires to 34 municipal candidates running in the six municipal elections running concurrently in April . The questionnaire consisted of nine questions and addressed three primary categories : the candidates ' qualifications for office , their grasp of important issues , and their ability to abstain from partisan politics and ideology . Of the 34 candidates , 19 responded . With the completed questionnaires , RTB - Delta County Election Task Force members reviewed and evaluated the candidates ' essay - style responses based on RTB's guiding principles , which promote nonpartisan , good - faith , civil discourse and reject political violence and extremism . The task force members independently scored the candidates ' responses to each question , with 7 being the highest score . Candidates who didn't respond to the survey did not receive a score . Town of Cedaredge William Anderson - N / A Randy Baldwell - N / A Cordell Chapman - 6.1 Tracy Gist - N / A Greg Hart - 6.6 - Gary Henderson N / A Justin Hoffbauer - N / A Jerry Pippin - N / A Town of Crawford Wanda Gofforth - 5.6 Chris Johnson -5.5 N / A N / A Cherri Olson John Patton John Jeff Peed - 5.8 Gill Saunders - N / A Jay Ziegler - 5.8 City of Delta Nathan Clay -6.1 Dan Korthuis -4.8 Ron White - N / A Town of Hotchkiss Roger Christian -5.5 Jim Jorgensen - N / A Tricia McFarland - N / A Randall Thalmann - 3 N / A Candidate did not respond to the questionnaire so RTB - Delta County couldn't provide a rating . To see the questionnaires and the candidate responses or learn more about Restore the Balance , please visit www.rtbdeltacounty.org . Orchard City Michael Hansen - 6 Wade Kasman - N / A Richard Kirkpatrik - 6.1 David Murphy - N / A Will Punkoney - 3.2 David R Stueck - N / A Kevin Walsh - 5.3 Town of Paonia Bill Bruner - 5.8 Walter Czech - 5.7 Linda McCone - 5.8 Paige Smith 5.9 Kathryn Swartz 6.1 We can build an alternative to political extremism .