Hector Mujica

And that's what got me into the race in the first place.

What got you out of the race?

What got me out of the race on May 29th.

We learned that there was a discrepancy in my voter file from 2025, that there was a period of a couple of weeks, three, four or five weeks that had me no longer being a registered Democrat and had me as a no party affiliation and then back into the Democratic Party a few weeks after that.

Yeah.

And that and that.

important piece here, the legal landscape shifted a bit in the midst of me running, right?

On April 1st, that word consecutive, the word that you just brought into this room, that got added into the law.

I think prior to, from what I understand in speaking to our attorneys over the past couple of weeks, there was a fairly weak law that's been in the books for about seven years now.

And that law stipulated 365 days,

not consecutive, and then it had no enforcement mechanism.

And it was a fairly weak law to the point that several folks had been removed and then the courts had put them back into the ballot.

Listen, in spite of a long track record as a Democrat, and my voting registration history shows me being a Democrat for over a decade or longer, my entire adult life, my voting background, my giving donation background, my engagement publicly and otherwise, my board memberships, et cetera, have affiliated me with the Democratic Party for the entirety of my adult career.

There was this discrepancy in my voter file last year.

What do you mean by discrepancy?

Yeah.

Well, the discrepancy is the ousting of me from the party and then back in.

What we're trying to track down, and quite frankly, I personally don't have a lot of answers yet.

And I know my campaign team's been submitting and filed a handful of information requests from the supervisor of elections.

We've gotten as far as we can get.