Richard Lamondin

I've done things that a lot of Democrats have talked about as things that we need fundamentally in our system for a foundation.

I've given health care.

to my staff and talked about how messed up that system was.

This is all possible.

I think it comes down to are you happy with what's coming out of Tallahassee?

A wise man once told me that the supermajority's got us in a chokehold, and the only way to break that chokehold is to flip seats.

That wise man was you, Billy, by the way.

I think I said it a bit less artful than that, perhaps.

I think.

So let's talk about that.

So we have this super majority in Tallahassee that's more concerned with fighting each other, that's more concerned with making sure that their donors get a million giveaways that they get every single year in the budget.

This is an opportunity, one, to send a very clear message that we're unhappy.

Two, to send people problem solvers that are actually dealing with the issues that we talk about.

to fight for us.

And three, to make sure that we are bringing more parity and breaking a super majority that is actively hurting people here, whether it's the corruption that we talked about, or whether it's the fact that right now, there's no clear way for our schools are getting funded.

They don't break out, for example, where private school voucher money goes versus public school money.

And it causes a lot of distrust in the system.

They don't talk about

what kind of climate resiliency action they have, or the fact that right now we have only $200 million in our emergency disaster fund on the eve of hurricane season because they yanked it all out to pay for the concentration camp in the Everglades.

These are active things that unless senators are dealing with this, that we pay the price.