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Rob Kidwell
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Rob Kidwell ran for election for Mayor of Huntersville in North Carolina. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.
Kidwell completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2019
See also: Mayoral election in Huntersville, North Carolina (2019)
General election
General election for Mayor of Huntersville
Incumbent John Aneralla defeated Rob Kidwell in the general election for Mayor of Huntersville on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | John Aneralla (Nonpartisan) | 55.9 | 3,830 |
 | Rob Kidwell (Nonpartisan)  | 43.6 | 2,989 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 38 | ||
| Total votes: 6,857 | |||
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Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Rob Kidwell completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kidwell's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a husband and father. I work as a business development manager for an overhead crane company. We settled in Huntersville in 2009 and have been fortunate to begin raising our family here.
- Regionalism
- Infrastructure
- Vision
Regionalism, Infrastructure, Transparency, and the environment are areas of public policy I am passionate and engaged with.
My father. He treated everyone fairly and consistently. He loved his family, and taught me the value of hard work, to fight for what you want, and how to win and loose with dignity.
My political philosophy has been developed through life experiences. It is influenced daily with the interactions of people in my community and those I work with.
An elected official should be willing to listen to opposing views, work with others for a common goal, and being transparent in the decision process.
Having served 4 years as a commissioner for the Town of Huntersville, I know our Town, budgeting and governmental process in which we are required to follow. I have had the opportunity to continue to form positive relationships with many of our local and state elected officials (Current and Former), helping pave the way for better communication and collaboration. My 20 years in manufacturing management and business development, has allowed me the ability to understand and work with people from different backgrounds, for a common goal.
Transparency, consistency, and following the towns plans and guidelines are important. We must stop the back room deals and job offers that have been done and make sure we do this in the public eye, and not after the fact. Utilize the plans (like the 2030 plan currently being updated) when making decisions for rezoning request and work for all our residents. Bring back open board voting on town created committees so we have an open and honest conversation /vote on the individuals and not appoint people because they are like minded.
I would like to leave a legacy of honor, respect and service to both my family and community
Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion, I was 11 years old.
I worked for a goat farm outside of Kansas City, for 2 summers.
Dale Carnegie Scrap Book, given to my father, and he gave it on to me in 1993.
Friend like me, from the 2019 motion picture, performed by Will Smith. It is my daughters current favorite song and we listen to it, roughly 20 times a day.
As a multi-term, Huntersville Town Commissioner, doing the right thing for my community came first, above anything else. This was done through strong regionalism, vision, and collaboration with our neighboring towns, county and state. Under the current Mayor's leadership, we have secluded ourselves from those entities and limited the conversations and collaboration that could help our town and region move forward. As the next Mayor I would work with the elected Commissioners, utilizing our strengths to rebuild many of those bridges and continue to collaborate with the leadership at all levels to strategically improve Huntersville and the region.
Having served 4 years as a commissioner for the Town of Huntersville, I know our Town, budgeting and governmental process in which we are required to follow. I have had the opportunity to continue to form positive relationships with many of our local and state elected officials (Current and Former), helping pave the way for better communication and collaboration. My 20 years in manufacturing management and business development, has allowed me the ability to understand and work with people from different backgrounds, for a common goal.
Work with neighboring communities, state representatives, and county leaders to help bring projects to our area that will positively impact my town, while keeping every board member informed so an open discussion can be had and decisions can me made responsibly.
My family enjoys utilizing the many parks and recreation events that are offered. We especially love the Veterans park and I am happy I had the opportunity to approve funding and break ground on that project. We also enjoy being a part of the Lotta Foundation, giving back to our under served children of our region.
Infrastructure, Regionalism, Education, Development. Since I first ran for town board in 2013 people were discussing roads, downtown development, and support for our police and fire departments, and Parks and Recreation Department. During my first term and second term we utilized our different funding mechanisms to break ground and complete projects like Veterans Park, the Parks and Recreation center across from HFFA, and a new Fire station #4, several intersection improvements (turn lanes) and connecting sidewalks. I want to see the town invest in itself to promote our downtown area, creating a focal point in driving business this way. I think this can be accomplished by seriously looking at the development of a new or renovation of the current Town hall , which has been in discussion on the current board. If we are going to improve our infrastructure, we need to be able to work with our regional partners at CRTPO in gaining their votes will also help with moving up projects on the TIP. The region, especially our town, is about to have 480+ million dollars of projects begin. These projects have been in the works for a long time, some nearly 30 years ago. We should be having the conversations and planning for the next round of projects, not sitting back waiting for these to finish. We also have to be very clear concise what we tell our town staff to accomplish. |
One with open lines of communication. I have worked hard to develop those lines and will work hard to keep them growing.
North Carolina is a Dillon state, so as a Municipality, we abide by the statures set forth by the North Carolina General Assembly. Having that insight, we can and should be able to speak to our federally elected officials, and have their support at all times.
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See also
2019 Elections
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