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Bob Dinegar
Bob Dinegar ran for election to the Regional Transportation District Board of Directors to represent District A in Colorado. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Dinegar completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Bob Dinegar was born in New York, New York. He earned a high school diploma from Holy Cross High School.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: City elections in Denver, Colorado (2024)
General election
General election for Regional Transportation District Board of Directors District A
Chris Nicholson defeated Kiel Brunner and Bob Dinegar in the general election for Regional Transportation District Board of Directors District A on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Chris Nicholson (Nonpartisan)  | 51.2 | 40,361 |
| Kiel Brunner (Nonpartisan) | 30.3 | 23,849 | ||
 | Bob Dinegar (Nonpartisan) | 18.5 | 14,584 | |
| Total votes: 78,794 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bob Dinegar completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dinegar's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Having driven RTD buses for 4 years and engaged with Board Members for even longer, I'm the only candidate in District A with direct experience of RTD's operations, security, management and governance.
I started paying close attention to RTD's Board in early 2020 because my life literally depended on it, The very real fear of being exposed to a deadly virus had become part of my workday.
The Agency was slow to respond, and its Board was also. I got angry. I got involved. And I got results. Some have credited my efforts for the successful push on RTD to expedite personal protective equipment (PPE), and rear-door boarding of buses.
To this day, RTD lacks a sense of urgency about offering a viable alternative to driving. - RTD has to become a viable alternative to driving. It's all about time, trust and safety! Time - time is precious - RTD shouldn't take 2 or 3 times as long as driving. When RTD trip times compete with drive-times, ridership increases, along with our sense of safety. We need service at least every 15 minutes. Trust - if Transit Workers feel content and safe, riders will sense that. Then trust can return. Safety - there’s safety in numbers. We need more people riding & a practical, evidence-based approach to RTD's public drug use problem. It’s never acceptable that people are intimidated when riding. Violent behavior can't be tolerated, there's no place for a loaded gun on RTD, regardless who brings it.
- According to the latest RTD report to its Board, its "People Power Problem" is almost solved, with less than a 2% Full-Time Bus Driver vacancy rate and 15% Full-Time Light Rail Operator vacancies. The main issue is retention. RTD has difficulty keeping folks on its payroll when the cost of housing is more than 60% of take-home pay. Schedules for new drivers/operators are extremely unattractive. Also, it's stressful, sometimes dangerous work; the level of disrespect directed at Transit Workers while performing their job is outrageous. ATU Local 1001 and RTD are in negotiations for the next Collective Bargaining Agreement. For RTD to be successful, wages will need to increase by roughly 35%.
I rest my case.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal recently wrote that character is the ultimate measure of leadership. He pointed out that the American revolutionary Thomas Paine is said to have written, “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
Alongside character, kindness and humility serve as the other pillars of our humanity and are essential qualities for elected officials.
McChrystal said: Regardless of what a person says, character is ultimately laid bare in his or her actions. Pay attention to what a leader does.
Later that day, the lookout screamed that there were two pirate vessels sending boarding parties. The crew cowered in fear, but the captain calm as ever bellowed, "Bring me my red shirt!". The battle was on, and once again the Captain and his crew repelled both boarding parties, although this time more casualties occurred.
Weary from the battles, the men sat around on deck that night recounting the day's occurrences when an ensign looked to the Captain and asked, "Sir, why did you call for your red shirt before the battle?". The Captain, giving the ensign a look that only a captain can give, exhorted, "If I am wounded in battle, the red shirt does not show the wound and thus, you men will continue to fight unafraid". The men sat in silence marveling at the courage of such a man.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 20, 2024
