Opinion

De La Fuente desperate to reach office

You probably know there’s politicians out there that are unlikeable. But, there’s few of them that also are running for office and failing. However, there is one politician that is desperate to get into office and his name is Rocky De La Fuente. Who is he?
He’s a businessman that tried to run for the Democratic primaries 2016 election and for U.S. Senate of Florida that same year. I do admit, I wrote an opinion article about the third-party candidates for the 2016 election and said he ran third party, while running for U.S. Senate at the same time. When I did the research, I found I was technically wrong.
Yes, he ran for president and for U.S. Senate of Florida, but here’s what really happened. He tried to get the Democratic nomination in their presidential primary. When that failed, he ran for U.S. Senate of Florida and ended up coming in fourth. Then after that, he tried to run third-party for president for the Reform and American Delta Party. Plus, he only had one endorsement by a political activist Deez Nuts, during his campaign. I’m not kidding. He had just one endorsement. Not only that, he tried getting a recount for Nevada and you can guess where that went.
Rocky’s election work isn’t over. Sometime in 2017, he announced he was going to seek the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential election, which makes me question is he settling for a third strike? He already has two strikes in the 2016 election by running for the Democratic primaries, then running third-party when the Democratic nomination failed. I know it’s too early to care about the 2020 election, but I feel like De La Fuente just won’t give up.
Here’s what he did next after announcing his 2020 bid. In the spring of 2017, he decided to run for mayor of New York City, only this time as a Republican. Really, Rocky? You’re running for mayor as Republican in a different state? However, when the summer came, he got the boot. According to the Gotham Gazette (No, it’s not DC Comics related), two supporters of the Republican rival candidate Nicole Malliotakis made objections about ballot petition signatures made by De La Fuente and said they were forged with the Board of Elections ruling in favor of the two supporters.
After researching much about Rocky De La Fuente, here’s some questions. Is he desperate in running for office? Why is he switching from one party to the next? Also, why is he going from state to state running for office?
The more important question is what’s he going to run for next? U.S. Representative of Hawaii as a Libertarian? Another U.S. Senate run in Utah for the Justice Party? Governor of California staying as a Republican? It might’ve worked for Arnold Schwarzenegger when he ran for Governor of California, but I’m not sure if it’s going to work for Rocky De La Fuente.
Rocky De La Fuente is one of the few politicians that switched parties, but he also went to a different state to seek office, while doing. Not only that, he’s one of the few politicians that’s trying to get in office and failing. I think he’s better off running a business, since he’s a businessman. If he gets into office, good for him.