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Rocky De La Fuente Biography

Rocky De La Fuente (Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente) is an American businessman and perennial candidate born on October 10, 1954 in San Diego, California, U.S. He was the nominee of both the Reform Party and self-created American Delta Party for President of United States in the 2016 election.

In the same year, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Democratic nomination for United States Senator and the Democratic presidential nomination.

10 Quick Facts About Rocky De La Fuente

1. Name: Rocky De La Fuente
2. Age: 68 years old as of 2022
3. Birthday: October 10, 1954
4. Zodiac Sign: Libra
5. Height: Average
6. Nationality: American
7. Occupation: Business man and Politician
8. Marital Status: Married
9. Salary: Under review
10. Net worth: $149.3 million.

Rocky De La Fuente Age

Rocky De La Fuente was born on October 10, 1954 (he is 68 years old as of 2022)

Rocky De La Fuente Salary

Rocky De La Fuente earns a salary of $40,000.

Rocky De La Fuente Net worth

Rocky De La Fuente has an estimated net worth of $149.3 million.

Rocky De La Fuente Family

Rocky De La Fuente was born to Roque Antonio De La Fuente Alexander (father) and Bertha Guerra Yzaguirre (mother). His was raised in Mexico by his parents and later to San Diego, and Anaheim, California, U.S.

Rocky De La Fuente Education

Rocky De La Fuente graduated from Saint Catherine’s Military Academy in Anaheim, California. He joined the Instituto Patria National Autonomous University of Mexico where he got his B.S. in physics and mathematics. He then later joined Anahuac University in Mexico City where he studied accounting and business administration.

Rocky De La Fuente Businessman

He owns businesses and properties in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, the United States, and Uruguay. Between 1976 and 1990, he acquired 28 automobile franchises from Alfa Romeo, American Motors Corporation, Audi, Cadillac, Chrysler, Daihatsu, Dodge, GMC, Honda, and others. He also opened three banks, assisted living facilities in Los Angeles and Lemon Grove and eleven currency exchange locations in the United States and Mexico. In 2004, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued him an order barring from participating in FDIC-insured institution.

He appealed the 9th Circuit reversed on half to advise the FDIC to reconsider its sentence, stating that “De La Fuente’s use of [First International Bank] as his personal piggy bank was in shocking disregard of sound banking practices and the law to the detriment of depositors, shareholders, and the public. Nevertheless, we remand this matter to the Board for it to consider, in light of this disposition, whether this extraordinary sanction remains deserved.

In November 2015, he and the city of San Diego reached in a settlement of decades and long legal dispute over land-use issues regarding a 312-acre area that he is developing in Otay Mesa. He founded the American Delta Party as a vehicle to continue his campaign into the general election as a third-party candidate. He was nominated as the party’s presidential nominee. His running mate was Michael Steinberg of Florida.

Rocky De La Fuente Campaigns

De La Fuente filed his candidacy for President of the United States with the Federal Election Commission as a Democrat. He identified himself as a progressive Democrat. He said that he was inspired to run after becoming dissatisfied with the slate of candidates, especially Donald Trump, whom he accused of alienating large segments of the population. On immigration, he supported a path to citizenship and was against the wall proposed by Donald Trump.

He subsequently has said that the reason he opted to seek the Democratic nomination, rather than the Republican nomination, is that he hoped that the Democratic primary’s smaller field of candidates would make it easier for him to stand out. The Republican party had 17 candidates, more than three times the number of major candidates who sought the Democratic nomination. Below is a table of the results of primaries in which De La Fuente competed during the Democratic primaries. The total number of votes De La Fuente received can be found in the Votes column. The rank in which De La Fuente came among candidates/ballot options can be found in the Place column.

During his campaign for Democratic nomination, he was not invited to any of the Democratic Party forums and debates. He did not also qualify for any of the presidential debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. De La Fuente, however, was invited to and participated in the 2016 Free & Equal Elections debate.

2016 presidential campaign
Rocky De La Fuente ran for the presidential campaign in the 2016 election. He then sought the Democratic Party’s nomination during their presidential primaries. His campaigns did not win a single primary or a single delegate in the Democratic National Convention of 2016. He founded the American Delta Party and ran as its party’s nominee with his running mate Michael Steinberg and was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Reform Party, which had ballot access in Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Mississippi.

He ultimately received over 33,136 votes in the general election, earning him 0.02% of the total popular vote. He failed to win any electoral votes. In the popular vote, he was placed in the eighth overall, behind the Democratic Party’s Hillary Clinton, Republican Party’s Donald Trump, Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson, Green Party’s Jill Stein, independent Evan McMullin, Constitution Party’s Darrell Castle, and Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Gloria LaRiva.

On May 9, 2017, he and Stein dismissed their lawsuit against the State of Oklahoma. The focus of the lawsuit was the state’s high requirement for petitions, but it was dismissed after Oklahoma eased their requirements. On February 2018, he won two more court cases slightly easing ballot access requirements in Virginia and Washington.

On August 8, 2016, he was named as the presidential nominee of the Reform Party. He gained the ballot access to 147 electoral votes in 20 states (Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming). He qualified as a write-in candidate in Arizona, California, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Washington, and West Virginia.

2016 Senate campaign
On June 20, 2016, he paid $10,440 to qualify to run for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 Senate election in Florida, the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat was occupied by Republican Marco Rubio. He competed with Patrick Murphy, Alan Grayson, Pam Keith, and Reginald Luster for the nomination. Murphy won the nomination; he came in fourth place out of five candidates, receiving 60,606 votes (5.38% of the overall vote).

2017 New York City mayoral campaign
He ran for Mayor of New York City in the 2017 mayoral election. Upon announcing his intention to enter the race, De La Fuente claimed that private polling data shows him defeating Republican candidates Paul Massey and Michel Faulkner. His candidacy ran into problems with his lack of residency. On March 28, he participated in a debate hosted by the Reform Party of New York State (which is not affiliated with the Reform Party of the United States of America) alongside five other mayoral contenders (Kevin Coenen, Mike Tolkin, independent Bo Dietl, Democratic challenger Sal Albanese and Republican Faulkner).

He said that homelessness and affordable housing was the central focuses of his campaign. During his campaign, he received $600,000 from campaign loans and the New York City Campaign Finance Board. As of July 31, this meant that his campaign had received the second-greatest amount of any campaign in the 2017 mayoral race, behind only Paul Massey, who had received $1,610,000. After the suspension of both Michel Faulkner’s and Paul Massey’s campaigns, he was the only remaining opponent to Nicole Malliotakis in the Republican Primary.

However, two Malliotakis supporters, with the blessing of her campaign, filed the objections of his ballot petition signatures. They argued that hundreds of De La Fuente’s signatures were forged. On August 1, the New York City Board of Elections ruled against De La Fuente and in favor of the Malliotakis supporters (Bryan Jung and James Thompson), thus effectively ending his candidacy for the Republican nomination and leaving Malliotakis unopposed for the nomination.

2018 Senate campaigns
On February 26, 2018, he filed to run for the 2018 Senate election in California under the Republican Party to unseat incumbent Dianne Feinstein, but he failed in the June 5 primary. He came ninth place out of a field of 35, garnering 135,109 votes for 2% of the total. In a primary system where only the top two make it to the final ballot, this ended his candidacy. On August 8, his candidacy for US Senator from Washington state came to an end in the open primary.

He also lost primaries in Wyoming, Hawaii, Minnesota, Vermont, Florida, Delaware, and Rhode Island. His promotional literature said that he chose to run in so many places “to prove just how ludicrous the election process has become,” although some commentators express doubt about that explanation. The Washington Post noted that in both Hawaii and Vermont, he drew enough votes that he theoretically may have changed the election, as if those same votes had been redirected to the second place candidate instead, that candidate would have won. Jim Camden, a columnist for The Columbian, wrote that “for this year’s primaries […] it’s clear the biggest loser was Rocky De La Fuente.”

2020 presidential campaign
On January 2017, he stated in a court filing that he again seek the Democratic Party nomination in the 2020 presidential election. He again asserted plans to seek the presidential office in the wake of his 2018 election failures, this time saying he would seek the Republican nomination.

Rocky De La Fuente Elections

received 33,136 votes in the general election, earning him 0.02% of the total popular vote. He failed to win any electoral votes. In the popular vote, De La Fuente placed eighth overall, behind the Democratic Party’s Hillary Clinton, Republican Party’s Donald Trump, Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson, Green Party’s Jill Stein, independent Evan McMullin, Constitution Party’s Darrell Castle, and Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Gloria La Riva. He received more votes than any Reform Party presidential nominee since Ralph Nader‘s 2004 campaign.

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