Look out, Trump, Here Comes Rocky

San Diego real estate baron, car dealer, and banker Roque (Rocky) De La Fuente, who is running for president of the United States, has become the first person in modern history to submit enough signatures to get on the Michigan primary ballot.

Normally, Michigan's secretary of state chooses candidates who are "generally advocated by the national news media to be potential presidential candidates," according to the Detroit Free Press.

"No candidate under the modern presidential primary system, which dates to 1972, has submitted signatures to attempt to get on the primary ballot," a spokesman for the state Bureau of Elections told the Detroit News. But De La Fuente, using volunteers and paid petition circulators, got 20,166 signatures. De La Fuente's feat "is a first," said the spokesman. The Board of Canvassers has to give the final go-ahead January 29.

He expects former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley to drop out and throw his support to Hillary Clinton, and possibly become her vice presidential candidate.

De La Fuente expects to be named to the ballot in Massachusetts tomorrow (December 21) and says "I am working my ass off" to get on the North Carolina ballot.

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Rocky for president in 2016?

"America is already great, but we can make it greater." That appears to be the campaign slogan for San Diego businessman Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente II, who recently set up a website touting his candidacy for president of the United States. Some may consider it a prank or a hoax, but as San Diego has found out, he appears to have the extreme self-confidence to believe he can make it. On the website he is identified as "one of the most successful and prominent Hispanics of the world."

De La Fuente took over businesses run by his father and mother. For several decades, De La Fuente II has been active in ownership of car dealerships, real estate, and banking.

In 1993, De La Fuente II won a $56 million suit against the county and settled for $38 million. Then came a dispute over his Border Business Park that has bounced around like a ping-pong ball. In 2001, De La Fuente won a judgment against the City for more than $100 million. Later, Mike Aguirre, as city attorney, got the judgment reversed.

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'Rocky' joins fight for President

De La Fuente, who also uses his Anglicized name, “Rocky,” is convinced Americans are not ready for another Clinton or Bush dynasty. But he reserves his harshest criticism for GOP front-runner Donald Trump.

De La Fuente accuses Trump of alienating Hispanics, Latinos, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans and women.

“I decided to run as a conservative Democrat, not looking left or right but going forward,” De La Fuente said in a phone interview.

When asked who his campaign manager is, he replied: “Me.”

He owns large tracts of land in Otay Mesa on the Mexican border, numerous commercial enterprises, including buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio and West Palm Beach, Fla., where he plans to open campaign offices. His headquarters here will be on Morehouse Drive near Qualcomm.

But, unlike Donald Trump, who is underwriting his own Oval Office bid, De La Fuente is running a grass-roots race, seeking a donation of $10 from 10 million Americans.

He plans to campaign primarily via social media: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites. His election web page: Rocky2016.com tells about him and former wife, Katayoun, and their five children.

De La Fuente’s slogan: “We the people need to take back our democracy.”

“I could not have done this four years ago and probably not four years from now,” he said. “The timing is right.”

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Women’s Health

Even though short-staffed, the Supreme Court of the United States was able to reach an important majority decision today that I fully support. With a 5-3 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the court reversed a decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision prevented the ability of Texas and other states with similar legislation to impose unnecessary and pernicious restrictions on women’s health clinics that would force most of them to close.

The Texas law would have required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of where such abortions take place. While this might sound reasonable, it is not. Admitting privileges are tied to admittances, and it would be extremely difficult for the physician to meet the minimum number of admittances to obtain such privileges.

Let’s use a little common sense in that regard. How is it beneficial to women’s health to require an increased level of admittance to a hospital? Shouldn’t the goal be to achieve zero required admittances?

Secondly, the law required a retrofitting of facilities to meet statutory hospital-grade standards. These standards included expensive renovations such as adding wide corridors and large rooms to reflect hospital-level volume. The standards also required adding expensive equipment.

Again, the requirements may sound reasonable on the surface. However, the standards are not applicable to clinic-level volume and are not applied to any other outpatient healthcare service of equivalent risk. Even more absurdly, the Texas law applied the requirements to clinics that only prescribe medication-induced abortions (i.e., the dispensing of morning-after pills with no on-site abortion services offered).

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While the Declaration of Independence set forth the grounds for such action, it also established the values upon which our nation was to evolve. Its second sentence has become the moral standard for human rights initiatives since that time.

The beginning of that second sentence deserves revisiting: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” I challenge each of us to consider those words carefully particularly on this hallowed day.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident…” suggests that the concept about to be noted is so obvious that it cannot be questioned. It is simply a “truth” to which we all subscribe, and that simple, indisputable “truth” is “that all men are created equal.”

This is a driving force for me, and I hope it is for you as well… not only this day when we celebrate the birth of our nation, but every day as we try to live up to the ideals that our Founding Fathers established 240 years ago today.

I am determined to bring meaning to those words and that simple “truth.” Every position I take, and every solution I propose is predicated on making sure that all men and women are treated equally. Whether the issue touches upon our foreign policy, energy and the environment, education, the economy, our national defense, immigration or social welfare, I think about it in terms of whether the solutions that are proposed are fair. Do they provide an equal opportunity to all? Do they treat the parties involved with respect and dignity?