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洛基·罗奇福德曾在美国海军服役33年，2024年曾作为共和党候选人参选第14国会选区议员
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海军退伍军人洛基·罗奇福德为将坦帕湾选区翻红而战
洛基·罗奇福德计划击败一位任职20年的众议院资深议员，将佛罗里达州第14国会选区纳入共和党阵营。
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海军退伍军人洛基·罗奇福德为国服役33年，获得海军准将军衔。如今，在佛罗里达州第14国会选区一场激烈的竞选活动中，他正致力于将坦帕湾从蓝色阵营转为红色阵营，目标是击败任职20年的现任议员凯西·卡斯特。
罗奇福德近日接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访，畅谈了自己的竞选纲领。
“20年来，凯西·卡斯特仅起草了两项成为法律的法案，而且两项都是为邮局更名。因此我认为凯西·卡斯特履职不力。在关乎民众切身利益的方面，她从未真正帮助过坦帕湾。生活成本可能是每个家庭餐桌上讨论最多的话题：汽油、食品杂货、电费、保险，诸如此类，不胜枚举。”
罗奇福德强调，他的领导经验让他能够从就职第一天起就代表坦帕湾民众。
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“这关乎领导力。我整个成年生涯都在奉献：33年海军服役经历，以及在麻省海事学院的四年学习。我甚至可以追溯到18岁刚入伍时的初心。这份使命感早已融入我的血脉，刻入我的灵魂。我有着坚定的信仰。
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我认为我们需要的不仅是能在国会履职的领导者，更是能将信仰带入华盛顿的人，成为解决方案的一部分。那些一味反对另一方的人，无论你站在哪一边，只要到了拒绝沟通的地步，就会出问题。我们将一事无成，而这正是目前华盛顿正在发生的情况，我们随处可见这样的问题。”
儿童权利是罗奇福德竞选纲领的核心议题之一。
“我有三项主要法案，是我工作的重中之重。第一项是我的《儿童权利法案》。我坚信儿童是未来，他们需要比现在得到更好的保护。目前监管儿童的法律由11个不同的政府机构制定，这些机构互不重叠，也互不沟通。这项法案旨在设立一个监管机构，统筹所有相关法律。
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“该法案涵盖儿童人工智能、网络 predators（网络 predators 通常译为“网络性侵害者”或“网络掠食者”）等多个方面，并将制定具有实际威慑力的新刑罚。我们将对这些人采取行动。这些掠食者通过跨州的四种不同渠道剥削儿童，我将堵上所有这些漏洞。还包括父母权利、禁止男生参加女子体育赛事。我的意思是，这项法案涵盖收养、寄养、卵子捐赠、试管婴儿等方方面面，内容十分全面。”
罗奇福德认为，外国影响力对选举结果影响巨大，他特别点名了总部位于中国的政治捐赠者和活动家内维尔·罗伊·辛厄姆。
“有很多与美国毫无关系的势力正在影响我们的选举，影响我们的民众。我们知道，居住在上海的美国公民内维尔·辛厄姆正从中国共产党那里获取资金，从内部破坏美国。中国称之为‘无烟战争’，事实确实如此，而且他们并非唯一的一方。
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伊朗也在做同样的事，我们知道朝鲜也参与其中，俄罗斯亦是如此。有大量外部影响力正在这里造成破坏，但我们作为一个社会必须看清这一点。我们是一个统一的美国，我将美国利益置于首位。在政治和党派之前，我首先是美国人。”
议员们对内维尔·罗伊·辛厄姆斥资2.78亿美元网络在美国传播中共宣传表示担忧
佛罗里达州第14国会选区绝非单一政治立场，罗奇福德强调，他寻求代表整个选区的民众，而非仅代表共和党人。
“我秉持倾听的原则。我不仅要倾听右翼的声音，还要倾听中间派和左翼的声音。因为如果我们不能携手合作，找到让国家变得更美好的共同点，我们这个国家就注定会失败。因此我们必须支持我们共同追求的目标：建设一个伟大的美国，一个能够照顾本国人民并在全球施以援手的伟大社会。”
他将能源政策和能源独立视为美国工薪阶层和家庭负担得起生活成本的基础。
“我一直在谈论生活成本问题。在我看来，几乎所有商品的成本基础都与能源息息相关。石油价格决定了汽油价格，而汽油用于我们的卡车、火车、飞机和船舶。因此我们必须掌握能源自主权。美国是全球最大的能源生产国，我们的民众应该从中受益，而非为此付出代价。”
对罗奇福德而言，最重要的政策议题之一是国家债务，他对此进行了大量研究。他提出了一项计划，将在21世纪60年代前还清美国的国家债务：
“我们不想给子孙后代留下债务包袱。因此我回溯了40年的历史，试图找出这一切的起源，以及我们何时偏离了正轨。如今我已摸清了整个政策脉络。平衡预算只是治标不治本，无法解决根源问题。根源问题在于国会，恕我直言，事实确实如此。
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国会收到的每一笔额外资金都会进入总基金，然后被他们花掉。过去所有用于解决国家债务、平衡预算的好主意，我都研究过，这些都只是政策层面的东西，从未真正成为法律。因此我的这套法案将成为法律，并且具有实际约束力。第一项法案将设立一个信托基金，即美国国家债务信托基金。资金进入该基金后，不得取出，也不得被国会以任何其他方式挪用。因此，如果我们通过我的立法，仍需要到21世纪60年代才能还清国家债务，但如果我们什么都不做，按照当前的趋势发展下去，10年后国家债务将达到61万亿美元。”
佛罗里达州初选将于8月18日举行。
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Navy veteran Rocky Rochford seeks to turn Tampa Bay red, unseat 20-year House incumbent
May 15, 2026 6:42pm EDT / Fox News
Rocky Rochford served in the US Navy for 33 years, and was the GOP nominee in the 14th district in 2024
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Naval veteran Rocky Rochford fighting to flip Tampa Bay red
Rocky Rochford has a plan to unseat a 20-year House veteran and add Florida’s 14th district to the Republican column.
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Navy veteran Rocky Rochford served his country for 33 years, holding the title of commodore. Now, he’s on a mission to flip Tampa Bay from blue to red, in the midst of a spirited campaign to unseat 20-year incumbent Kathy Castor in Florida’s 14th congressional district.
Rochford recently sat down to discuss his campaign with Fox News Digital.
“So in 20 years, Kathy Castor has been the author of two bills that became law. And both of those were to rename post offices. So I would say that Kathy Castor has been ineffective. She hasn’t really helped Tampa Bay in the ways that matter the most. Affordability is probably the biggest thing on everyone’s kitchen table list of discussion points. Gasoline, groceries, electricity, insurance. I mean, the list goes on and on and on.”
Rochford emphasizes that his leadership experience has prepared him to be ready to represent the people of Tampa Bay from day one.
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“So it’s about leadership. I have spent my entire adult life…33 years in the Navy, four years at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. I got to go back to the age of 18 for the first time before I was actually part of the military. So, it’s been entrenched in my being, it is in my soul, I’m very strong in my faith.
And I believe that we need someone who is not only going to bring leadership to the process, but is going to bring their faith to the process up in D.C., and be part of the solution. People who are anti the other side, whether it doesn’t matter what side you’re sitting on, when they are against the other side to the point where they won’t even talk to them, that’s problematic. We’re not gonna get anything accomplished, we’re not going to get anything done. And that’s exactly what’s happening up in DC right now, we see a lot of that.”
Children’s rights is an issue at the forefront of Rochford’s campaign.
“I have three major bills that are the highlight of what I’ve been working on. And the first is my children’s bill of rights. I do believe that children are the future, and they need to be protected far better than they’re being protected now. So the laws that govern children are written amongst 11 different government agencies. Those agencies don’t overlap and they don’t talk to each other. This bill is designed to create a shield, an organization that oversees all of those laws.
“This covers everything from AI for kids, online predators, and it provides new penalties with teeth. This is we’re going to get after those folks. The predators have been exploiting four different avenues on children across state lines. I’m going to close every one of those doors. Parental rights, no boys in girls sports. I mean, this bill covers adoption. It covers foster care, egg donor, IVF. It is complete.”
Rochford argues that foreign influence plays a large role in shaping electoral outcomes, and particularly singles out China-based political donor and activist Neville Roy Singham.
Neville Roy Singham smiles at his wedding to Jodie Evans in February 2017 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.(Osbourne Chin / Chinphotographic)
“There’s a lot folks who have nothing to do with the United States…that are influencing our elections, they’re influencing the people…We know that Neville Singham, who’s a U.S. citizen living in Shanghai, is taking money from the CCP to disrupt America from the inside. China calls this the smokeless war, and it really is and and they’re not the only ones.
“Iran is doing the same thing, we know North Korea is involved, Russia so there’s a lot of influence happening in here that are that are causing wreaking havoc but we as a society need to see beyond that. We are one America, and I’m America first. I’m American first before politics, America first before party.”
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Florida’s 14th district is hardly politically monolithic, and Rochford emphasizes that he seeks to represent the entire district, not merely Republicans.
“I’m about listening. So I’m here to not only listen to the right, I’m here to listen to the center, and I’m here to listen the left. Because if we can’t come together and find the commonalities that will make us a better country, then we are doomed as a country. So we must support what we’re all after, which is a great America, a great society that takes care of its own and helps around the world.”
Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., takes her seat for the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party hearing in the Cannnon House Office Building on Tuesday, January 30, 2024.
He views energy policy and independence as the foundation of affordability for American workers and families.
“So I’ve been talking about affordability for some time. To me, the foundation of affordability for just about everything runs off of energy. The price of oil drives the price of gas, which is in our trucks, in our trains, in our airplanes, in ships. And so we need to get control. And so one of the bills that I have drafted will propose that…we first have to become energy independent. We’re the largest producer of energy in the world. So our people should be benefiting from it, not hurting from it.”
Among the most important policy issues for Rochford is the national debt, which he has spent a great deal of time researching. He has a plan that would retire America’s national debt by the 2060s:
“We don’t want to leave a legacy of debt to our children and grandchildren. So I had go back 40 years to try to figure out where this all started, and where we went off the tracks. And I now understand the entire policy. Balancing the budget is only treating a symptom. It does not treat the disease. So the disease is Congress, I’m sorry, but it’s true.
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“Every bit of money that comes in that’s extra from Congress goes into the general pool and they spend it. And all of the great ideas that have been used in the past, because I studied them all in the past on how to get after the national debt, balance the budget, the things that’ll help us get there. They were only policy, they were never law. So this suite of bills is law and it has teeth. And so the very first bill will design, it will create a trust and it is the American National Debt Trust. And when the money goes in there, it cannot come out and it cannot be spent by Congress in any other way. So if we enacted my legislation it would still take us to the 2060s to retire the national debt, but if we do nothing, and we’re on the path of doing nothing, in 10 years the national debt will be $61 trillion.”
Florida’s primary election is August 18.
David Unsworth reports on Latin America. You can follow David Unsworth on Twitter @LatinAmerUpdate