RTD BOARD: Candidates

Denver’s Regional Transportation District has 15 seats with members serving staggered four-year terms. RTD is the agency that runs buses, light rail and paratransit. The board are the policy bosses, not the day-to-day operations team. RTD District Map

CANDIDATE RACES

All candidates are hyperlinked on their names to their websites.

There is a long-term strategy here!! Don’t get fooled by the unknowns – that’s one way they siphon off enough votes in order to get a candidate to win by super slim margins. The goal is to get you to focus on a smaller number of candidates who have a real shot at winning. For this purpose, we indicate who these candidates are by placing their names in bold. We are refraining from telling you who is a better candidate in our opinion ON PURPOSE.

YOU CAN DO THIS! Pick who you like.

Democratic Socialists of America, Denver chapter logo

CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY:

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA

(*website is hyperlinked)

Denver DSA requires candidates to identify as SOCIALISTS and be active chapter members to earn a full "endorsed" label. (Non-member Democrats who are sympathetic to their cause just get a "recommend yes” label.)

The DSA platform asks you to imagine a future without capitalism…where your job isn’t just a job to pay bills. Speaking of bills…you won’t really have them anymore. Their website says that in the future, you won’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right. (So….the government pays for all housing for everyone everywhere? Sounds expensive.) But not just housing. Also… health insurance, food, education, medicine, transportation, free universal daycare…etc. How much will this fantasy cost? The estimates are between $72 and $212 TRILLION dollars…which, of course, will cause astronomical inflation.

**These candidates are in red below.**

DISTRICT B

  • John Glenn
  • Bianka Emerson

DISTRICT C

  • Joe Meyer

DISTRICT J

  • Coleman Erickson

DISTRICT K

  • Michael Farrington
  • Jessica Sandgren

DISTRICT L

  • Ian Harwick (incumbent)

DISTRICT N

  • Cindy Arcuri (currently serving by appointment)

DISTRICT O

  • Jack Rosenthal
  • Audrey DeBarros