You may not have heard of Pamela Rocker. The 35-year-old is one of 671 people, 22 Ohioans, and two Cincinnatians who filed a “statement of candidacy” with the Federal Elections Commission for the 2020 presidential election by April 9. But if she wins, Rocker will be the United States’ first female president — and the first transgender president.
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“I just didn’t want to sit on the sidelines,” she tells the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I was unhappy with the outcome of the 2016 election. Hillary, she inspired me. She lit something inside me. She opened the door for women and trans women of color to run.”
Now Rocker has her sights set on the highest office in the land, on taking the Oval Office away from You Know Who. She describes the 2016 election as “living a nightmare.”
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She says that, if elected, she’ll give every household access to a free car, paid for by a lift of the federal ban on marijuana. She’d also make recycling mandatory and demand reparations for descendants of slaves.
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“I will fight for the American people,” Rocker tells the newspaper. “I will fight to rebuild our reputation around the world and be more hospitable to immigration and stuff like that.”
And as a newcomer to the political world, Rocker knows that the odds are stacked against her. But she’s ready to campaign and state her case. “It’s just like playing the lottery,” she says. “You take your chances.”
biron62
Pam Rocker is pretty! But that’s all I know about her?
truthseeker
When she says that Hillary Clinton “opened the door for women and trans women of color to run”, does she know that Hillary isn’t the first woman to run? Jill Stein runs every election
Then on the issues…”She says that, if elected, she’ll give every household access to a free car, paid for by a lift of the federal ban on marijuana. She’d also make recycling mandatory and demand reparations for descendants of slaves.”
In that case, I demand my free government paid for Maserati and my family were probably slaves during the Ottoman Empire
Doug
With issues like that, she won’t get anywhere. Too bad.
verifyb4believe
This is a joke…right? Don’t get me wrong , good for her, but absolutely zero political experience, a platform based on weed, free cars and reparations. Maybe she should start small, like maybe school committee, condo association president, neighborhood watch coordinator. Not that she’d get elected but We already have seen what happens when a person with no experience or clue to what they’re doing takes office.
Brian
You can’t get famous on a school committee! Lots of people entering politics just want to be famous. They don’t care about doing real good.
Thad
I hate cars! As an advocate for mass transit, this is the stupidest political platform ever.
iamru2
I long for the day when the dems come up with a viable candidate again that can inspire and unite! It’s not looking good for 2020!
Brian
There are over 20 candidates so far, and most of them have experience in Congress. None of them are viable or inspiring, in your eyes?
iamru2
Unfortunately not but it’s still early!
truthseeker
@Brian
Just because someone has several years of “experience” in Congress, it doesn’t mean that person is “inspiring” or a great candidate.
Jeb Bush and George Bush have experience. Hillary Clinton has experience. Mitt Romney has experience. Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters have experience. Joe Biden has experience.
Now you see my point. It’s all bad experience.
inbama
Compared to racist, criminal, traitor and debt-exploder Trump, they’re ALL viable.
EVERY SINGLE ONE is thousands times better.
Black Pegasus
I will vote for the transsexual with the biggest dick. But she has to be an atheist and a independent.
dinard38
“But if she wins, Rocker will be the United States’ first female president — and the first transgender president.”
Can we quit wasting time with candidates that have absolutely no chance in HELL of winning?
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I 1000%. agree with her on reparations! I strongly am in favor of giving all living those who were kept as slaves during 19th century be given at least a hundred million dollars for being kept in slavery!
SportGuy
Anyone else is better than the orange dotard.
Mikey E
What does this post have to do with gay people?