Hector Mujica
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And what I keep hearing from people up and down the 28th Congressional District, up and down the state of Florida when I was running for Senate is,
quite frankly the promise of the american dream the promise that hey one day if you work hard and play by the rules i promise i brought my parents to this country from venezuela and have them hustle so hard and work diligently to be able to give me a version of the american dream to go from an immigrant household with a pastor father with parents that were busting their butts to work really hard all the way to the executive suite at google like that's an only in america and then and then potentially and then running for senate and then running for congress that's an only in america story
And right now, that version of the American dream feels uniquely out of reach for the average Floridian.
The average Floridian is one $1,000 emergency away from homelessness.
The average Floridian is debating what bills to pay because they know that they can't pay for all the bills that are coming in that month.
Heaven forbid if they get a speeding ticket, heaven forbid if they get into a car accident, heaven forbid if they get an illness or a diagnosis, right?
And then they're going to be set back significantly more.
And again, all of this, and I mentioned this earlier, all of this is going to get deeply upended and shifted because of technology.
Technology is going to change the rules of the game completely.
And what you see is candidates end up leaning into these overly simplistic positions just to win votes.
I mean, right nowβ It's also because they're all 80 years old, actually.
I mean, they barely know how to function their iPhone, and somehow these are the people that we're entrusting with ushering us into the next technological revolution.
100%, including Carlos Jimenez, right?
I mean, Carlos is pushing 80, right?
And our Democratic nominee is not that much younger either.
So it's not like we have a lot.
At this moment, I would argue, demands a new generation of leadership in Washington, a generation of leadership that...
grew up around technology, ideally a generation of leadership that has worked within tech that understands how these companies function, how these technologies function.
Which you have.
Which I have.