Richard Lamondin

You can't really send your kid to preschool without spending a rent.

So roughly, for those of you who haven't had kids yet, take your time.

But it'll cost you about $1,500 to $2,500 a month to send your child to preschool before they hit public school age.

That's totally out of reach.

And that means that a lot of kids are not getting the kind of instruction they need to be successful here.

And I think that that's honestly completely messed up.

Well, first of all, there's because there's been a supermajority rule for a long time.

What I have noticed is there is a lot of fear.

There's a lot of fear of pissing off the super majority.

There's a lot of fear, honestly, in Democratic electeds that they can't mess up the powers that be up in Tallahassee.

But there's also a complicity of silence.

which comes from the fact of when you're building concentration camps in the Everglades, when you're stripping land away from Miami Dade College students and resources, when you're letting the president profit off of things, when you're not dealing with the fact that we pay teachers 50th in the country, we spent 40th per capita on students, and we're second or third in business bankruptcies.

When you're not doing that stuff and you're silent about it, there's a complicity to the issue that I've seen a lot.

And my opponent is one of those people who has definitely, she's come up through the Republican ranks

basically been in politics her whole life, has never had to make a payroll, has never had to put a child through school, has never had to deal with the downstream impacts of this administration.

Has she ever even had a job outside of politics?

Yeah.

And I've given paid parental leave and I've given paid time off, even hourly workers.

And I've made sure that when parents that when you get sick, that you you're able to be taken care of.

We have emergency medical leave.