I’m Rocky Anderson, a co-founder of the new Justice Party and its nominee for President of the United States. As a lawyer who represented those who suffered harm from abuses of corporate and government power, as a Democratic nominee for Congress in 1996, as a two-term Mayor of Salt Lake City, as founder and Executive Director of High Road for Human Rights, and as a candidate for President, I have been driven by a passion for social, legal, economic, and environmental justice. I urge people to look past what people running for office say during their campaigns and to examine what they have actually done with their lives. Where are their passions? Have they acted with integrity? Have they been effective? What can we count on them to do?

If you examine my record (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Ander…), you will find that I have been a fiscal conservative, recognizing that our outrageous accumulated debt and interest burden, brought to us by the recklessness of both dominant political parties, is undermining our nation, hurting those who are most vulnerable, and harming the future prospects for our children and later generations. I have been an outspoken opponent of U.S. wars of aggression. (See http://crooksandliars.com/2007/05/05/roc…) I have fought for equal rights and equal dignity for all, regardless of race, ethnic origin, faith (or not faith), and sexual orientation. As a volunteer for Common Cause, I have advocated for bans on gifts to legislators and understand that our federal government is now controlled largely by the corrupting influence of money. For that reason, I support a constitutional amendment that would overrule the bizarre holding of the Citizens United case. I have long opposed the so-called “war on drugs” and worked successfully to obtain a presidential pardon for a non-violent drug offender who was sentenced to 15 ½ years in a federal penitentiary on his first drug conviction. Job creation, short-term and long-term, should be a top priority – one that has for too long been ignored by the President and Congress. I have worked, for several years, to restore the rule of law in our nation. (See the multi-media presentation that I researched, wrote, and narrated, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECPGenexy…)

Support for a “third-party” candidate is an affirmative choice for real change, while support for the Democratic or Republican candidate is simply a re-confirmation of the diseased, corrupt system of government in which the interests of campaign contributors and lobbyists’ clients are served, while the public interest is betrayed. This campaign is not about simply moving around the players in corrupt system that continuously betrays the public interest. It is a people’s movement – a classic grassroots campaign – that depends entirely on people like you. (To contribute or participate as a volunteer, see www.voterocky.org .) (Contributions are not tax-deductible.)

If the people in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya can organize together, utilizing the democratizing tools of social media, to overthrow their nation’s dictators, so too can the people of the United States organize together and overthrow the dictatorship of corrupt money that continues to deprive us of leadership on climate change, energy independence, universal health care, marriage equality, compassionate and rational immigration reform, and integrity in our political system.

TL; DR A presidential candidate with credentials that match rhetoric who has heard enough about false "hope" and recognizes now we must act. Ask me anything.

Website: VoteRocky.org
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Twitter: @PresidentRocky

UPDATE, JAN. 11, 2012:
Thank you all who've contributed to this rich discussion. I've enjoyed sharing my solutions with everyone here. I will be checking back periodically to answer questions that have been voted up. I invite you to donate (up to $100/person) to my campaign. A president for the people, depends on the people getting involved. Thanks.
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johoso 1 point 8 months ago

I really find a large similarity in your stances on most issues on my own, but I find your use of the term "fiscal conservative" to be misleading. Would you be willing to use the term "fiscally responsible" to describe yourself, as "conservative" lends itself to the idea that you are behind privatization of government programs and deregulation of big business?
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[–]RockyAnderson2012[S] 1 point 8 months ago

Excellent point. Thanks. Words are so important -- and "fiscally responsible" captures what I'm conveying better. I've never thought the words "conservative" and "liberal," at least as they are used in the U.S., are very helpful.
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