Hector Mujica

Hey, everybody.

I wanted to speak to you directly tonight because I have some really difficult news.

After spending the last week reviewing every available legal option with my team and with our attorneys, I have made the heartbreaking decision to not move forward with qualifying for Congress in Florida's 28th congressional district.

Over the past week, questions surrounding a voter registration discrepancy from last year created a complicated legal situation under a newly enacted Florida elections law.

We explored every viable option available to us, but ultimately it became clear that moving forward was going to mean prolonged legal litigation, enormous uncertainty, and a campaign consumed by legal battles instead of the issues that actually matter.

Yeah, listen.

First of all, I'll tell you this, Billy.

First of all, thank you for having me on your show and thank you for bringing the, sounds like the first ex-candidate that you've had on.

So far.

There's always a first.

Well, listen, I'm incredibly proud of the race that we ran.

I'm really proud of the reasons why we got into the race in the first place.

I've come to believe that...

Politics have become incredibly performative and politics have become incredibly tainted with people that are in it for themselves, that are in it for reelection, that are in it for self-serving reasons, for ego, and not for ultimately serving the people of Florida.

And I also got in it because we're going through quite a range of inflection points in this moment in time.

We're going through an inflection point socially.

Do we see each other as fellow human beings, fellow Miamians first and foremost, or do we see each other as political enemies if we happen to fall on different sides of the spectrum?

Do we believe in the American dream that it's still within reach or is it getting further and further out of reach for the average Floridian?

And all of this is getting deeply accelerated by technology.

Artificial intelligence is going to change the rules of nearly everything.