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Roger Edwards

Business Owner Community Leader

Denver, Colorado

Roger Edwards is a transportation and logistics professional who unsuccessfully ran for RTD Board District H in 2020. He has experience managing $150 million budgets and is a member of Liberty Toastmasters Denver.

Biography

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Roger Edwards is a transportation and logistics professional with extensive experience managing corporate logistics operations for large manufacturing companies. His career includes responsibility for managing a $150 million budget across 24 U.S. locations and negotiating with national railroads, truckload carriers, and freight operators.

In 2020, Edwards ran for RTD Director in District H but was not elected. His campaign emphasized modern management methods including Six Sigma and continuous quality improvement as solutions for RTD's budget crisis and ridership decline.

Edwards is a member of Liberty Toastmasters Denver and is active in faith-based community service. He led a year-long adult Sunday school class focused on the Holy Land, drawing from his life-changing trip to Israel.

He appeared on the Kim Monson Show multiple times in 2019 and 2020 to discuss topics ranging from faith-based education and media influence to RTD's financial mismanagement and transit security concerns.

Episodes

4 appearances

October 13, 2020

California’s Gas Car Ban, COVID Metrics, and the Battle for Colorado’s Statehouse

Civic Engagement & Grassroots

Kim Monson and Randall O'Toole discuss California's gas car ban, COVID reopening metrics, and RTD's crisis. October 13, 2020.

“There's 72 pages of organizational charts for RTD. And if you know anything about bureaucracy and management and organizations, in the organization, the tendency is for each silo of management, whether it be a maintenance effort, a sales effort, or whatever it is, to protect their own turf, their own territory.”

21:42 – 26:00

Segment

September 28, 2020

Local Government, Civic Engagement, and the 2020 Election

Ballot Measures & TABOR

Lora Thomas, Roger Edwards, and Kathleen Chandler discuss local government's impact on daily life. September 28, 2020.

“And I'm not sure that they have two years or five years to execute a plan that's going to move forward the reorganization and keep RTD from failing and becoming a ward of the state government.”

18:46 – 26:35

Segment

February 26, 2020

Free Markets and the Fight Against Late-Term Abortion

Civic Engagement & Grassroots

Giuliana Day discusses the Due Date Too Late ballot initiative while Liberty Toastmasters members explain why capitalism benefits everyone. February 26, 2020.

“How are we going to live the benefits of freedom and liberty if we allow ourselves to be constantly manipulated by fear?”

38:01 – 42:14

Segment

December 27, 2019

New Beginnings and the Power of Personal Growth

Civic Engagement & Grassroots

Liberty Toastmasters members share New Year's resolutions and reflections on new beginnings with Kim Monson. December 27, 2019.

“So my effort for the new year, I have volunteered at my church to do a Sunday school, commit to doing a Sunday school for the next year. We haven't had a continuous adult Sunday school lesson, and this is kind of a new adventure for the church.”

46:28 – 49:50

Segment

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