Richard Lamondin
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So the first is the freedom to raise a family.
And the fact is you can't do it if you're always worried about whether you're going to find health care for your child, where you're going to put your child in school, are they going to a quality school?
Are you as a parent earning enough to be able to take care of your family?
Second one is the freedom to afford a home.
Anyone who is buying or renting or dealing with this market right now knows that it's getting hard to make it.
And the fact is that people are actually leaving Miami right now because it's so hard to make it and to afford to live here.
One of the ways you can do that is to make sure that we can build more workforce and affordable housing versus those big, beautiful luxury towers.
I know that you enjoy, Billy, so much.
Love them.
For sure.
The last one was freedom from corruption.
Because I think the fact of the matter is that...
there's, even though we have sunshine laws, this is a shady-ass state, as you know, and the fact of the matter is unless you get us to go in and call out these things, like the no-bid contracts they used to bid it, like the many shenanigans that DeSantis and his predecessors have been up to, then we're gonna keep being in the same spot, because like, as you said, they said they have no money for improving our schools, for access to preschool, for expanding Medicaid, for so many issues that we care about, but they have money.
to spend a billion on that.
They have money for DeSantis to get a nice security detail after he's done in office, but they don't have money for the people who actually need it.
So that's why I'm fighting.
Thanks for being here.
Good luck.
Absolutely.
One more thing I want to say, too, is we're doing a big kickoff.