Rocky, Rocque, and Ricky: I Love Yew, Texas
In Texas and several foreign states, there are three guys, all related, and all named pretty near the same.
Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, who has run for president in the past as a Democrat, is running for president this year (including in the Texas primary) as a Republican. He also has run for Senate, simultaneously and unsuccessfully, in several of the several states.
His son, also Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, following in Dad’s footsteps, is among 18 candidates (including four who’ve dropped out) on this year’s Texas Democratic presidential primary ballot. I’ll let you decide whether either of the De La Fuentes is a rogue Roque.
So, it is possible, weirder things have happened, that we have a November election consisting of a Democrat named Rocky De La Fuente vs. a Republican named Rocky De La Fuente.
Daddy Rocky is also running for a congressional seat as a Republican in California.
But, it gets leaky here … Daddy Rocky has another kid, named Ricky. Ricky De La Fuentes is running for congress in both California and Texas. States with lax residency laws will let you do that. He’s running as a Democrat against his Dad in California and as a Democrat against no family member in Texas, which seems to take some of the sport out of it.
Glen Maxey puts a translation lid on it in the Austin American Statesman.
Political dynasty – hey, it couldn’t be worse than the Trump family.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
It appears to be a Trump family, “Starter Kit” but with extremely voracious tendencies. I recommend a multi-state pest control service.
1The senior De La Fuente got seriously crosswise with the federal government for using his bank as his personal piggy bank. He stubbornly fought the charges in court every step of the way and lost at every level, including the circuit court. He still rails against an interventionist federal government. Translation: what’s good for Rocky has to be legal.
2The insane criminality of the IQ4.5 gang combined with the power ambitions of the Bush tribe proving anything named “Rocky” needs to be limited to ice cream flavors. While not advocating for Monsanto or glyphosate, Texas you need to shake the bushes with some metaphorical version of agent orange. Conjure up your collective Molly Ivins and Ann Richards in 2020!
3I didn’t even know you could do that – run in multiple states at the same time.
4Is it a Firesign Theater homage? A nod to Nick Danger’s nemesis Rocky Rococo?
5RepubAnon (5) Maybe Guy Noir?
6That’s even worse than when Chairman of the School Board Ferd Smith fired Schools Superintendent Fred Smith in North Carolina some years back. Writing that so newspaper readers could keep up was a bitch, until Fred — who was driving to a job interview — hit a deer and was stabbed through the heart by the antler.
I kid you not.
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