Richard Lamondin

It's been a deep frustration of mine for a long time.

And after Trump won the 2024 election, I kind of felt the call.

And I thought that if not now, then when?

Initially, I was running for the US Congress against Maria Salazar.

And I switched over a few months ago to run for the state Senate simply because

There's just absolutely absurd amounts of corruption happening there, whether if it's giving away Miami-Dade College land for the Trump Hotel and Casino, whether if it's over almost a billion dollars to put Alligator Alcatraz out in the Everglades, naming the Palm Beach Airport after the president when he gets to profit off the trademark, on and on and on.

And so the fact of the matter is we don't have people solving the issues up there, and I got sick and tired of it.

Well, the important thing to know is that this seat actually breaks that super majority you talked about.

And why that matters is, unfortunately, in the minority, your first job is to make bad bills better.

It's not very sexy, but there's so many insane bills, or actions that they are taking, whether it's the fact that they demolished that crosswalk in Miami Beach, or whether the fact that there's crazy stuff like recently Tallahassee.

You mean the colorful rainbow crosswalk?

Yes, the colorful rainbow crosswalk.

The crosswalks are making us gay.

The crosswalks are making us gay.

I'm really happy you brought that up, Richard.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, you could shout out your government in Tallahassee for making that one possible.

But the fact of the matter is that right now, if we don't have people stepping up to deal with this issue, then we just get smacked with it.

And having a four-year-old son, most of our education policy and what happens with our kids happens out of Tallahassee.

One of the most messed up things to me is the fact that here in the state,