Hector Mujica

If we're finding out about this on May 29th, why, if we, listen, I am the first person to tell you that I wish we had known about this challenge before May 29th.

We would have fought this in court from the beginning.

But who knew what and when?

I don't want to speculate onto who knew what.

What I can tell you is

i didn't know this was a challenge until may 29th the second we learned this was a challenge shortly thereafter we stopped collecting donations as we're talking to our legal counsel and beginning to understand what the legal implications of this is for the entire first week of june we still felt pretty certain that at least what my legal counsel was telling us was hey we feel certain that there's a pathway through to challenge this maybe

There were three avenues that they were thinking of challenging this through.

One was talking about this voting discrepancy and do we even think that giving your record as a Democrat, is that even legitimate?

Is that breaching the intent of the law?

The second piece was, is this law retroactive?

Can this law that got signed on April 1st impact you if you entered into the race or if this happened in 2025?

And then the last piece, and I think probably the most

point in a piece of this whole thing is, is this law constitutional?

And a lot of folks were telling us that this law is likely unconstitutional.

i can't speak to what was what was in the mind of my my democratic colleagues and i think there's a difference between a law that's applicable to state senate to state house to the governor's mansion and federal law ultimately governs the constitution governs who is eligible to be a member of congress or a member of the u.s senate and there's three stipulations there's an age stipulation there's a residency stipulation there's a citizenship stipulation

Beyond that, there's no additional, if you could also envision a world where then every state across this country begins to put in their own factors.

Oh, hey, we want people that have been residents of Rhode Island for the past 50 years.

Listen, I think these are things that I'm going to continue to be talking about because at the end of the day, my fight doesn't end with this race.

My fight ends when the state of Florida and the people of South Florida are better represented in City Hall.

in Tallahassee, in Washington.