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Fri Oct 28, 2016, 10:24 PM Oct 2016

Reform Party candidate lays out plan to sink Trump, Clinton

HELENA, Mont. — If you don't want to see either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the White House, and you live in the Rocky Mountain West, Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente would like a few minutes of your time.

Who?

Rocky De La Fuente is a 62-year-old San Diego, California, businessman whose political patter matches his pugilistic name. In a news conference Friday in the Montana Capitol, he glided around the marble-laden rotunda, reporters trudging along behind him, and rained down an unrelenting stream-of-consciousness explanation about his plan to torpedo both major-party candidates' Election Day.

De La Fuente is the presidential candidate of the combined Reform Party of Ross Perot fame and the new American Delta Party. Public awareness of his candidacy doesn't come close to even other third-party candidates, such as the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson or the Green Party's Jill Stein, let alone that of Trump and Clinton.

But de la Fuente says he has the formula to sink the front runners and get himself or one of his third-party brethren elected on Nov. 8. It involves unlikely electoral math, nonexistent candidate cooperation and a lot of luck.

Read more: http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2016/10/28/reform-party-candidate-lays-out-plan-sink-trump-clinton/92905312/

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