Jaime Rodríguez Calderón

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As a member of the PRI, Rodríguez served as a federal deputy in 1992, a local MP in 1997, and Mayor of García. During his term as mayor of García, Rodríguez was the target of violent attacks by Los Zetas. As a mayor he fought to reduced crime in this municipality. The 2013 documentary El Bronco sin Miedo ('The Bronco Without Fear') recounted the attacks. He also invested in education and social development programs in Garcia.

Leaving the PRI and running as an independent

On 3 December 2014, citing disappointment with rising corruption within the PRI, Rodríguez expressed his intentions to renounce his political party to run as an independent candidate for Governor of the state of Nuevo León. Soon after, he left the PRI and ran as an independent candidate.

By the second week of January his supporters collected 150,000 signatures, exceeding the 103,000 required to meet the 3% of the population minimum for independent candidates to get on the ballot. By February he had more than 334,000 signatures. In the 2015 election, Rodríguez ran against the PRI's Ivonne Alvarez and PAN's Felipe Cantu. Election authorities officially added his name on 2 March, and Rodríguez won the election.

Claims of lack of news media coverage

On 11 September 2016, during a Live-Television News broadcast from "Monterrey al Dia," Televisa news reporter, Karla Minaya said, "We have to ensure that the governor, for sure, is mentioned as little as possible." The Mexican newspaper El Universal published on social media a video of the event, which was covered by national news media although Televisa didn't mention the story and declined to comment. Rodríguez's predecessor Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz had spent 4 billion pesos on bribing television news media (Televisa included), to clean his image.

Rodríguez vowed to not spend a single peso in news media coverage. He claims that Televisa news unfairly mention him the least possible, or with biased news coverage of unfair criticisms and defamation. In Rodríguez's own words, "There's 314 denouncements of stolen cars, we retrieved 229, but since we didn't bribe Televisa, Multimedios and TV Azteca they don't show it. We have disbanded a band of thieves of cars and trucks. We have said it on every press round, but Televisa, Multimedios and TV Azteca don't show it."

Rodríguez's bid to run in the presidential election 2018, again as an independent, initially didn't reach the required number of signatures to appear on the ballot, but his attorney Javier Náñez Pro appealed to the Federal Electoral Tribunal, which ordered the National Electoral Institute to register him as candidate.

During a debate in April Jaime said "We have to cut off the hands of those who rob. It's that simple." As a result, Rodríguez was trending ahead of the other candidates on Twitter during the debate.

Jaime Rodríguez later proposed to bring back the death penalty (which was officially abolished in Mexico in 2005 and last used by the Mexican government in 1961) for drug traffickers, hijackers, infanticides and serial killers.

According to exit polls, Rodríguez Calderón only attained about 5% of the vote and recognized Andrés Manuel López Obrador's victory within an hour of the polls closing.

On September 25, 2019, the Federal Electoral Tribunal approved the validity of sanctioning Rodriguez Calderon for using 572 state employees to gather signatures for his 2018 candidacy. They also approved an MXN $153,384 (U.S. $7,800) fine for using public resources to promote his 2014-2015 campaign for governor. Ramirez plans to appeal to the Supreme Court (SCJN).

Following his loss in the presential election, Rodríguez Calderón submitted a request to the Nuevo León government to become governor again.

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