#BecauseMiami: Escape From (Alligator) Alcatraz

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: #BecauseMiami: Escape From (Alligator) Alcatraz

Date: June 19, 2026

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Episode Overview

This high-energy episode, recorded at the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, spotlights two central topics: the shocking conditions and activism surrounding the ICE detention center infamously dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” and a rare conversation with former congressional candidate Hector Mujica, who recently withdrew from the race due to a technical disqualification. The episode blends dark humor, stark social critique, and the show’s signature irreverent tone, as host Dan Le Batard and crew go deep on immigration justice, democracy, and the state of political leadership.

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Section 1: Arianne Betancourt and the "Alligator Alcatraz" Saga

(01:26 – 19:44)

Key Points & Discussion

The Personal Story Behind the Viral Campaign

• Introduction: The episode opens discussing Justo Betancourt, a Cuban national released after six months in “Alligator Alcatraz,” a South Florida ICE detention center. After a public campaign led by his daughter, Arianne Betancourt, President Trump posts a congratulatory message for his release.
  • Arianne’s reaction:
    “Definitely none of the above. I’ve never been a Trump supporter. I’ve never voted, would never vote for Trump… I am living like below the poverty line. So tax breaks don’t really apply to me.” (02:39)
• Arianne’s activism: She describes her evolution from a Miami tour guide to a full-time activist, leaving her job after her father was detained.
  • “In January, I quit my job. I went to Chicago to a protest… My dad was taken to Mexico in those days. That's when I quit my job.” (08:07)

The “Dildo Blitz” Protest

• Infamous protest tactic: In a humorous yet politically razor-sharp aside, Arianne recounts how she initiated the “dildo blitz” – a protest involving suction-cup dildos at ICE centers to draw public attention and media.
  • “My aunt is a homophobic lesbian Republican Trump supporter… So I chose to just put a dildo on her door… Then my friends in Minnesota were like, this is what we need to take to the ICE agents...” (04:09, 05:05)
• Spread of tactic: Sex shops donated thousands of dildos for protests, generating viral coverage and aiding public pressure against the center.
  • “They took a few [dildos]. And then sex shops just started donating thousands and thousands and thousands of dildos to the people in Minnesota to take to protests… Then they can’t say people are being aggressive.” (05:05)

The Reality Inside Alligator Alcatraz

• Dire conditions: Arianne reveals appalling conditions: expired food, contaminated water, and untreated illness among detainees.
  • “The water is muddy. There’s mosquitoes, bugs in it… They add chemicals to the water… the cup literally starts disintegrating from whatever liquid is inside… They are all, you know, they all complain of… excessive diarrhea, throwing up… They’re not given any medications for anything.” (11:57)
• Advocacy evolution: Through community groups, she connects with more families and detainees, becoming a lifeline as official channels fail.
  • “For the last four months, most of my conversations have been directly with people detained inside of Alligator Alcatraz.” (10:53)

Public Pressure & Policy

• Why Justo was detained: Despite living in the US for 36 years, with only a decade-old, nonviolent drug charge, ICE reclassified his entry and detained him.
  • “He did his time… He was brought here by the American Red Cross and the Cuban American Organization rescued him and my grandparents… So he was brought here by the U.S. illegally, according to the U.S. now, yeah. All these years, 36 years later.” (13:16, 13:51)
• On Miami/Cuban-American politicians: Arianne expresses sharp disappointment, accusing leaders like Marco Rubio of empty posturing and failing the community.
  • “Because they are Cuban Americans that have been conditioned to believe that the path to peace is war. They’re not Cubans who've actually lived in Cuba… they’re not doing anything for the people here.” (14:35)
• On Mayor Eileen Higgins: Higgins’ campaign rhetoric included opposition to ICE collaboration, but Arianne argues she failed in office.
  • “She made a promise to end the 287 [g] and then she got elected. And then DeSantis put his foot on her neck. And what did she do? She went against her constituents… There's no accountability at the local level.” (17:26)

Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• Dan (host, on the viral dildo protest):
  “They're penetrating, if you will, through the chain link fence with the dildos. I mean, they're coming all over the place. So this is your fault is what you're saying?” (05:28)
• Arianne Betancourt, bluntly:
  “Yes.” (05:55)
• Roy (co-host, in deadpan fashion):
  “Roy keeps track of all the dildo activity in the country.” (04:47)

Arianne's Call to Action

• “Show up to your local representative's office. And if you can't show up, make the calls… We the people are, you know, the force. But if we sit back and allow the government to trap on our rights, I mean, we're seeing what's being done in Alabama and Tennessee. This is not… a mistake. This is exactly how the system has been designed.” (18:31)

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Section 2: Democracy, Grift, and a Congressional “Dropout”

(24:05 – 43:04)

Key Points & Discussion

Hector Mujica: The Ex-Candidate’s Perspective

• Background: Once a Democratic candidate for Congress in Florida’s District 28 (and former U.S. Senate contender in 2025), Hector dropped out due to a voter registration technicality.
• The controversy: His party-affiliation had briefly lapsed to "No Party Affiliation" in 2025, violating Florida’s law requiring 365 consecutive days’ membership.
  • “On May 29, we learned that there was a discrepancy in my voter file from 2025, that there was a period… that had me no longer being a registered Democrat and had me as a no party affiliation and then back into the Democratic Party…” (26:17)
• Legal ambiguity & election law: Mujica and host Dan debate whether Mujica’s consultants acted negligently or in bad faith.
  • “My concern here is… when an ineligible candidate diverts those resources away from eligible candidates… if you’re representing that you’re raising money from someone… but you are not eligible… That’s a little fraudy, dude.” – Dan (34:02)
• Consultant “industrial complex”:
  • “[Consultants] are the Consultant industrial complex… Candidate equals campaign equals cash…” – Mujica, (36:05)

Systemic Issues, Technology, and Representation

• Performative politics & frustration: Mujica laments the self-serving, performative turn in politics.
  • “Politics have become incredibly performative and… tainted with people that are in it for themselves, for re-election, for ego, not for serving the people.” (26:22)
• AI and tech as the defining policy challenge:
  • “Artificial intelligence is going to change the rules of nearly everything. That’s what got me into the race in the first place.” (26:29)
  • “You had an AI platform on your website… There are not a lot of congressional candidates… who are spending enough time on this. It is… the tectonic, life altering issue of our time and perhaps all time.” – Dan (41:05)
  • On congressional aging:
    • “Heck, I mean, they barely know how to function their iPhone. And somehow these are the people that we're trusting with ushering us into the next technological world.” – Mujica (41:15)
• Hector’s “Only in America” take:
  • “To go from an immigrant household… all the way to the executive suite at Google… 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.” (39:04)
• On today’s economic anxiety:
  • “The average Floridian is one $1,000 emergency away from homelessness. The average Floridian is debating what bills to pay… Heaven forbid if they get a speeding ticket… if they get an illness or a diagnosis… they’re going to be set back significantly more.” (39:12)

Notable Quotes & Moments

• Dan (summarizing political frustration):
  • “There are a lot of grifters in this town, a lot of, you know, the consultant cabal. Who prey on your first time candidate.” (35:48)
• Mujica (on AI):
  • “This thing can be curing cancer. It can be helping us solve climate change. And how do we not lose our way of life… our dignity and our humanity in the process?” (41:53)
• Dan (on urgency):
  • “I would argue they're not questions of tomorrow, that they're very much questions of today. And to put that off for another cycle, I think is incredibly dangerous.” (42:28)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:26 — News segment: Release from Alligator Alcatraz and Trump’s message
• 02:39 — Arianne Betancourt’s activist origins
• 03:29 – 06:18 — The “dildo blitz” and viral protest tactics
• 07:33 — Arianne’s career transformation after her father’s detention
• 08:22 – 10:37 — ICE deportation ordeal & solidarity at protests
• 11:41 — Shocking conditions inside the detention center
• 13:05 — Why Justo Betancourt was detained; injustice and bureaucracy
• 14:33 – 17:26 — Political failures: Rubio, Higgins, and local leadership
• 18:31 — Arianne’s call to action for listeners
• 24:05 — Hector Mujica’s withdrawal and Florida election law
• 26:29 — Politics as performance and the dangers of “Conultant-industrial complex”
• 39:04 — The “American Dream” slipping from Floridians
• 41:05 — The AI revolution and the need for informed leadership

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Conclusion

This episode epitomizes the raw mix of local outrage, absurdity, and biting analysis that defines the Le Batard Show’s Miami-centric “Local Hour.” Through deeply personal stories, deadpan banter, and a sharp eye on systemic injustice, listeners get both laughter and an unvarnished look at the battles—political and personal—reshaping South Florida. From vibrantly unorthodox protest strategies to the critical role of technology and broken democratic processes, the discussion pushes listeners to question, empathize, and (as Arianne says) show up.

Notable Closing:

“Show up to your local representative's office. And if you can't show up, make the calls… If we sit back and allow the government to trap on our rights… This is exactly how the system has been designed.” – Arianne Betancourt (18:31)

For those who missed it: This episode is a must-listen for anyone passionate about immigration justice, Miami’s messy politics, the state of democracy—and the weird, viral power of protest.

Transcript

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[Narrator/News Reporter]

Benton Court is coming up on three weeks since he was released from Alligator Alcatraz, and now President Donald Trump is singling out Gusto and his daughter Arianne. In a Truth Social Post Sunday evening, Trump writes welcome home to Gusto Bendicourt, whose daughter Arianne fought very hard to free her father from Alligator Alcatraz. Enjoy your freedom together. Justo, a Cuban national, spent six months in Alligator Alcatraz. A few weeks ago a judge decided through a habeas corpus ruling he was in the detention center too long.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Pero like what the bro. I've always wanted to open an interview like that, right?

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

Worth an F bomb.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Yeah, like literally. Ariane Betancourt is here, whose father mercifully was released from the concentration camp in the Everglades. Known humorously because concentration camps should be known humorously as Alligator Alcatraz. This message from the president giving you a mogatov a congratulations. Where did that come from? You have a relationship with the president? Are you a fan? Are you a voter? Are you a fan? What is that?

[Arianne Betancourt]

Definitely none of the above. I'VE never been a Trump supporter. I've never voted, would never vote for Trump. I don't, you know, I'm not a conservative or Republican. I am living a, like below the poverty line. So tax breaks don't really apply to me. So.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

But. So where did this come from? The President of the United States is posting on Truth Social A basically a congratulations to you for a hard fought victory, which it was to get your father out of Alligator Alcatraz. Do you have no idea how that happened?

[Arianne Betancourt]

Well, I made a very public campaign and I kind of became one of the few family members of a detained person who was going public with what we were being told.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

And let's talk about that because you have a. So you don't know. The short answer is you have no idea necessarily.

[Arianne Betancourt]

I guess I made enough noise. I mean, I just made enough noise from yelling at Christine Ohm, at her hearing, from going to State of the Swamp. I've done a lot of things in the last few months. Start the dildo thing in Minnesota. So I was one of the starters of the Dildo Blitz in Minneapolis. So I think I did so much to kind of get public attention on Alligator Alcatraz that it got to him.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Clearly caught the eye of the President

[Hector Mujica]

of the United States.

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

I'm sorry, I want to get back to the dildo.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

I was going to guess that Roy was caught up on the dildo thing.

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

So this was at a Minnesota Timberwolves game. You guys threw dildos on the court?

[Arianne Betancourt]

No.

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

So that was a different dildo.

[Arianne Betancourt]

Whipple Federal Building. So my aunt is a homophobic lesbian Republican Trump supporter. And when my dad was detained, she had a problem with me being vocal on my opposition on the immigration policies. So my dad told me not to argue with her. So I chose to just put a dildo on her door. Like, you know, go f yourself. So I wasn't arguing with her, but on her door.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

How you made a sort of like a.

[Disney Pixar Advertiser]

No, I got a suction cup.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Knife.

[Arianne Betancourt]

No, I got a suction cup. One on Amazon. It was like five bucks. The best five dollars I've ever seen.

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

Not at a Minnesota Lynx game, not a WNBA game.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

This very important because. Because Roy keeps track of all the dildo activity in the country. So.

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

Yeah, I mean, a lot of it's in Buffalo, you know, during the Bills game.

[Arianne Betancourt]

Oh, no, I have. I'm going to show you some footage.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Oh, Roy, you're. You're in luck.

[Arianne Betancourt]

Just look, just look up dildo blitz.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Okay, so suction cup, this dildo and

[Arianne Betancourt]

then I told my, my friends in Minnesota about it and they were like, this is what we need to take to the ice agents. And they took a few. And then sex shops just started donating thousands and thousands and thousands of dildos to the people in Minnesota to take to protests. Because then they can't say people are being aggressive.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Well, I see. So we're looking at footage right now from St. Paul Anti Ice protest turns heads with bizarre stunt. There are people waving suction cup dildos in the air. Some of them have them suction cup to their foreheads. They're throwing them at cars at the ice detention center. They're penetrating, if you will, through the chain link fence with the dildos. I mean, they're coming all over the place. So this is your fault is what you're saying?

[Arianne Betancourt]

Yes.

[Microsoft Advertiser]

Okay.

[Arianne Betancourt]

From then, from that, you think, you

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

think the president noticed the dildo?

[Arianne Betancourt]

I think that's what it was.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Ok.

[Arianne Betancourt]

I'm thinking that was.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

It's really what caught Roy's.

[Arianne Betancourt]

Honestly, I just gave. I just told them, I'm like, hey, I'm a silly goose. And this is how I got back on my aunt. And then I told a few people about it and then it became this whole thing. I left Minnesota, got home. I look on Instagram and I'm like, what? I'm like, what?

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

This is not where I thought this conversation was going.

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

You're a silly goose with a dildo.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

And by the way, how fast did Louis, like dial up that footage? Like, I've never seen him. I've never seen. He was just like, he's like, did somebody. You had me. A dildo? Like, did somebody say dildo? And like, right, boom. I've never seen him bring up footage like that. Like, I've never seen it. Like, this is. I never even thought to say, this

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

looks like a job for me.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

I never even thought to say, hey, Louis, can we, can we dial that up? I've never even thought. All these years, I've never thought to do that. And here he is just with the footage like that. Incredible. With the. I guess we'd call it D roll. With the D roll.

[Arianne Betancourt]

The D roll.

[Louis (Producer or Crew Member)]

Oh,

Louis.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

With the GIF faces today too. Holy shit. Anyway, thank you for just completely derailing the show like a bright line train.

[Co-host (possibly Roy)]

You're welcome.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Really just unbelievable.

[Arianne Betancourt]

But I think that that's one of the many things that I did.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

But you have a really interesting path here too, to. We'll call it activism, for lack of a better term. Because you like got. I Guess there's been a calling now with what happened to your dad. So what did you do before and what do you do now? Because it's been quite a transformation in your life in just the last several months.

[Arianne Betancourt]

I had a tour business. I was a tour guide right across the street at Bayside. I managed two boat operations. I did walking tours, private tours, the bus tours. Since I freelanced, I pretty much worked for everyone. I had, like, a pretty busy schedule.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

So classic hospitality. Like, your job is to make everybody know how beautiful and wonderful Miami is in the United States is because people are coming from all over the world, presumably to Bayside, to take tours. So. And now you're kind of on the flip side of. Of that now. What do you do now and how did that happen?

[Arianne Betancourt]

So in January, I quit my job. I went to Chicago to a protest outside of Broadview. My dad was taken to Mexico in those days. That's when I quit my job.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

So he was actually, like, deported. He's Cuban, though, right?

[Arianne Betancourt]

They tried to deport him, but when he got to Mexico, they had denied his insulin already for a full week. So when he told the Mexican officials he hadn't had insulin in a week, they were like, we can't accept his entry. We have to deny his entry because it's a liability. You know, it's a three day commute to where he has to go on different buses and there's walking involved.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

So he's diabetic and he did not have his medicine. I can see you getting a little emotional about this now. Understandably, so. So. But he's Cuban, and they sent him to Mexico, a country. Has he ever been to Mexico before? No, never. So they sent him to a country he's never been before without his medicine, which they've also deprived him of for an entire week. And what you doing during this time?

[Arianne Betancourt]

I went to Minneapolis.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

I left with the dildos?

[Arianne Betancourt]

No, the dildos happened a few days into being in Minneapolis, but I went to Minneapolis and I got to see, like, ice on the streets. I saw. I saw the terror, but I also saw the solidarity. I saw people coming together. I saw moms walking around with a trail, like a line of kids. Kids that aren't even their kids, but they're like, they're gonna be safer with me than having their own parent come out. And when I went to Minnesota, right after Renee Goode was killed,

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

I.

[Arianne Betancourt]

You know, when you see the government attacking civilians for trying to protect their neighbors, it triggers something inside you. And I think there's a Disconnect in humanity where there's a group of people that see these things and it affects them and it makes them change and think about the future and the people that have been conditioned to think, oh, this is what's supposed to happen. You follow rules or you get hurt.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

So this has completely changed your life. I mean, you were a tour guide. The next thing you know, you're leaving your job to pursue, not justice for your father, but to get your father home, get him to his medicine, get him.

[Arianne Betancourt]

It became much bigger than just my dad and me. I think within a week of him being detained, I started connecting with other families. And they didn't want to speak up. They didn't want to. They were like, no, no, no. I'm just. They're going to sign their. Their voluntary departure and we'll figure it out.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

They were scared.

[Arianne Betancourt]

They were terrified. They were terrified.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

And so your father is in Mexico. Mexico says, we can't take him. He's sick. We cannot take care of him. And where does he go from there?

[Arianne Betancourt]

Back to Alligator Alcatraz.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

And what do you do then?

[Arianne Betancourt]

I didn't stop. I. Then I started working with the Worker Circle, the organization that anchors the vigils every Sunday outside of Alligator Alcatraz. I had been working with them, like, on an unofficial basis. I was just doing a lot of volunteer work. So I was connecting with families and relaying the information to them and relaying the information to them, and that became a job. And I went from talking to the families to then also talking directly with the detainees. So for the last four months, most of my conversations have been directly with people detained inside of Alligator Alcatraz, as

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

I understand, as they're trying to, or supposedly winding down operations there. And people are being, I guess, removed from Alligator. Like, the conditions have deteriorated. Like, they're even worse somehow than they were before. Is that right?

[Arianne Betancourt]

Yeah.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

How so?

[Arianne Betancourt]

So the food that they were fed the last week or so, everything was dated two weeks prior. Like, the expiration was dated two weeks prior. Stuff that was frozen and expired. And that's what they're.

[Louis (Producer or Crew Member)]

They're giving them.

[Arianne Betancourt]

The water is muddy. There's mosquitoes, bugs in it. The guys say the water? Yeah. So they give them these five gallon, like the Home Depot like, containers. That's where they fill up their water. And then they have these little cups. So when the water looks dirty, they add chemicals to the water, like bleach it. So these guys have these rubber cups, and after the first time, they use the cup, but they drink the Water. The cup literally starts disintegrating from whatever liquid is inside of the water. So these guys are drinking this water that's been making them sick for months. They are all, you know, they all complain of. They get excessive diarrhea, they're throwing up, their stomachs hurt, and they tell them, drink more water. They don't give them any medications for anything.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

So they give them effectively being poisoned by whatever's in the water. You think, how did you get your father out?

[Arianne Betancourt]

We filed a habeas petition, A habeas corpus petition. The first one was partially denied, and then we filed again after him being there for 180 days, and it was granted.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Why was he taken into custody in the first place? He's a Cuban American. He's been here for how long?

[Arianne Betancourt]

He's been here for 36 years. He did have a criminal record, and he had supervision, which has always been.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

But he's done. He did his time.

[Arianne Betancourt]

He did his time, and he was just. He had had to report once a year.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

How old is the criminal record?

[Arianne Betancourt]

10 years.

[Greg Cody (Advertiser)]

Okay.

[Arianne Betancourt]

He.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Violent crime?

[Arianne Betancourt]

No.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Drug related.

[Arianne Betancourt]

Drug related.

[Microsoft Advertiser]

Okay.

[Arianne Betancourt]

But they told him, stay in line for your next appointment next year. And he stood in that line for two hours. And then they brought him into a room and they told him, oh, you're detained because you came into this country illegally? My dad got here in 1990 because the American Red Cross and the Cuban American Organization rescued him and my grandparents out of a war zone. So he was brought here by the

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

U.S. illegally, according to the U.S. now, yeah. All these years, 36 years later, so. Well, I wish you the same congratulations the president did. I guess Trump is a idiot. But I do want to ask you this, because you've been. You're out there now full time, right? I mean, you were out there at all Alligator.

[Arianne Betancourt]

Alcatraz every Sunday. Sometimes I'm there. I mean, I'm there a couple nights out of the week. We've. We volunteer. We do stakeouts. We sit there and just watch all of the cars going in the buses, trying to figure out how many people they've moved, how they're moving them.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

And you've had some very strong words for not just the president for Governor Ron DeSantis, but also for some of our local leadership as well.

[Arianne Betancourt]

Don't. Don't respect her. Marco Rubio. Don't respect him.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Why not?

[Arianne Betancourt]

Because they are Cuban Americans that have been conditioned to believe that the path to. To peace is war. They're not Cubans who've actually lived in Cuba they're not Cubans that have the same values as the Cubans on the island, and they're not doing anything for the people here. I went to Mario Vida's office and her rep told me she's in support of President Trump's policies. She's been a big supporter of his policies.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Which policies? The same one she claims she's fighting against on behalf of her constituents on

[Arianne Betancourt]

the Dignity act and Carlos Jimenez.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

She wants to play both sides. She wants to play both sides?

[Arianne Betancourt]

Yeah, she wants to play both sides. And it's just as a Cuban American who understood that Cuba was dismantled, yes, by communism, but the embargo and the blockade and the sanctions, I mean, what's happened to Cuba in the last six months has been a direct attack on the Cuban people.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

If you're concerned about the humanitarian issues in Cuba, for the people who all these years, through the blockade, have been essentially violating it by sending money and aid to, by the way, again, to their families for humanitarian purposes, this is. I mean, if you really care about that, then this has been pretty terrible for the people on the island. Not for the people in power per se, but it's.

[Arianne Betancourt]

Humanity's become a political point. It's like, okay, we give them a little bit so that they can vote for us, and then we're going to take it away because we have to appease the white guy before we go.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Let me ask you this, because everybody you just mentioned are Republicans, but you are not only taking Republicans to task relatively. Newly elected Miami City Mayor Eileen Higgins. She had this to say when she was on the campaign trail and shortly after she was elected.

[Eileen Higgins (Miami Mayor)]

There's no reason in the city of Miami that our police department should be in the job of federal immigration enforcement. ICE and its tactics have been in my community for over a year. They have been causing great fear and terror in our residents. It is inhumane. It is cruel. I'm a Catholic. I. I can barely grapple with the lack of humanity around all this. We're a place where most of our residents were born somewhere else. And so the harsh, cruel, inhumane, horrible, trickle down hatred tactics that are coming from the federal government, I am convinced made some people want to vote for me because they think I will stick up for them in the face of this sort of behavior.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Arianne, I'd like to give you an opportunity to respond to Mayor Higgins.

[Arianne Betancourt]

I've said it 20 times and I'm going to probably say it 100 more.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Blackjack. Then we got 21 today.

[Arianne Betancourt]

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[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

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[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

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[Hector Mujica]

Hey everybody, I wanted to speak to

[Hector Mujica (continued)]

you directly tonight because I have some really difficult news. After spending the last week reviewing every available legal option with my team and with our attorneys, I have made the heartbreaking decision to not move forward with qualifying for Congress in Florida's 28th congressional district. Over the past week, questions surrounding a voter registration discrepancy from last year created a complicated legal situation. Under a newly enacted Florida elections law, we explored every viable option available to us, but ultimately it became clear that moving forward was going to mean prolonged legal litigation, enormous uncertainty, and a campaign consumed by legal battles instead of the issues that actually matter.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Through the years we've had a lot of candidates on this program who are running for office. I don't know, right? Have we ever had a former Kent like someone who just dropped out of a race like last week? As my soon to be 98 year old grandfather says, you live long enough, you see everything. Roy we are. We are seeing a first in the history of because Miami today so Hector Mujica was running late last year, early this year for United States Senate in The state of Florida, running in a Democratic primary against the Republican incumbent Ashley Moody, then in April switched from the United States Senate race to the congressional race in District 28 Democratic primary there against candidate Phil Eyre, who's been on this program, sat in that seat just a few weeks ago. And that would be to run against Republican incumbent Carlos Jimenez in District 28. And so now, as we can see from that video from last week, you are no longer running for anything. Why don't we start there? There was this mini sort of scandal that erupted in den Democratic politics here in the state of Florida that lasted two or three weeks, I don't know how long until the end of your campaign. So let's start there. What, what happened? Why are you no longer running for Congress?

[Hector Mujica]

Yeah, listen, first of all, I'll tell you this, Billy. First of all, thank you for having me on your show and thank you for bringing the. Sounds like the first ex candidate that you've had so far, which you had

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

a lot of ex candidates who like lost races, I suppose, but never who like just dropped out of the race and came on to talk about it.

[Hector Mujica]

There's always a first. Well, listen, I'm incredibly proud of the race that we ran. I'm really proud of the reasons why we got into the race in the first place. I've come to believe that politics have become incredibly performative and politics have become incredibly tainted with people that are in it for themselves, that are in it for reelection, that are in it for self serving reasons, for ego and not for ultimately serving the people, the people of Florida. And I also got in it because we're going through quite a range of inflection points in this moment in time. We're going through an inflection point socially. Do we see each other as fellow human beings, fellow Miamians, first and foremost, or do we see each other as political enemies? If we happen to fall on different sides of the spectrum, do we believe in the American dream that is still within reach, or is it getting further and further out of reach for the average Floridian? And all of this is getting deeply accelerated by technology. Artificial intelligence is going to change the rules of nearly everything. And that's what got me into the race in the first place. And then what got you out of the race? Yes, what got me out of the race? On May 29, we learned that there was a discrepancy in my Voter file from 2025, that there was a period of a couple of weeks, three, four, five weeks that had me no longer being a registered Democrat and had me as a no party affiliation and then back into the Democratic Party a few weeks after that.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

So there were two party affiliation changes about nearly eight weeks apart from June to beginning of June to end of July of 2025. And there is Florida law that says that you have to be registered and affiliated with a party for 365 consecutive days in order to run as a member of that party.

[Hector Mujica]

Correct? Yeah. And that and that important piece here, the legal landscape shifted a bit in the midst of me running right on April 1st. That word consecutive, the word that you just brought into into this room that got added into the law, I think prior to, from what I understand and speaking to our attorneys over the past couple of weeks, there was a fairly weak law that's been in the books for about seven years now. And that law stipulated 365 days, not consecutive, and then had no enforcement mechanism. And it was a fairly weak law to the point that several folks have been removed and then the courts have put them back into the ballot.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Yeah, but that was a law since 2021 in the state of Florida. The spirit of the law is that so people can't just suddenly become a Democrat or Republican and be like a shill candidate or a spoiler candidate. They want to at least sort of test your loyalty, I guess, if you will, and say you're really running TR purely as a Republican or as a Democrat. Now you're right. There was a recent Democratic led and sponsored and fought and won, which is very rare that the Democrats win anything in Florida, in Tallahassee, at the Capitol, and they won. This law, to clarify, as you said, the 365 consecutive give it some kind of teeth with some sort of enforcement mechanism, give someone standing to sue. In the case here, your primary opponent, Phil Eyre filed an elections fraud complaint against you on May 29 and then threatened to sue come June 8 in the event that I guess you qualified or attempted to qualify. So the law was on the books though. And all the political campaign consultants and political operatives that I speak to say that for the last four or five years, since about 2021, 2022 in Florida, they usually do their due diligence to make sure that candidates have been affiliated with their given party for 365 days. So what happened here, though? I mean, you're a good candidate and we're going to get into the issues and we can certainly vet the quality of a candidate. But before you can vet the quality, you have to ensure it's qualify yeah, you have to qualify for the race. So what happened here?

[Hector Mujica]

Listen, in spite of a long track record as a Democrat, and I've, you know that my voting registration history shows me being a Democrat for over a decade or longer, my entire adult life, my voting background, my giving donation background, my engagement, publicly and otherwise, my board memberships, et cetera, have affiliated me with the Democratic Party for the entirety of my adult career. Discrepancy in my voter file.

[Eileen Higgins (Miami Mayor)]

Last.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

What do you, what do you mean by discrepancy, though? Well, as first, your campaign said that it was. It appeared to be a clerical error or administrative error that you did not change your party registration to npa. The Broward County Supervisor of Elections pushed back pretty hard, saying they reviewed their records saying there was no evidence of a technical or clerical error. Found that they did in fact find voter registration applications that were submitted and processed in accordance with Florida law, which would had to have happened twice, once in June of 2025 and once in July of 2025 to change you from to NPA and NPA back to Democrat again. So what's the discrepancy? You use the word discrepancy.

[Hector Mujica]

Yeah. Well, the discrepancy is that the ousting of me from the party and then back in what we're trying to track down. And quite frankly, I personally don't have a lot of answers yet. And I know my campaign team's been submitting and filed a handful of information requests from Supervisor of Elections. We've gotten as far as we can get and with the information we have is still largely an unclear picture as to what happened here. Was there someone acting on my behalf as part of the campaign?

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

You're saying you didn't do it?

[Hector Mujica]

I did not do it.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

You don't remember changing your party now? I've changed my party affiliation before I receive a new voter ID or voter registration card, whatever they call it, in the mail. Did you not receive two voter registration cards in June and July of last year?

[Hector Mujica]

I dug around. I dig, searched the entire house. We cannot dig anything up. I also searched my entire inbox to see if there would be any. Any sort of notification. Could not dig it up. That doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Obviously it happened and obviously it's in my record, which is why I ultimately decided to bow out. But that doesn' negate the fact that there was no ill intent here. There was nothing of us trying to subvert the electoral process or any of these laws. These laws, this discrepancy came to our attention on May 29th. And in fact, I wish we had known about this. And I will own the thing that I will definitely own is the fact that we as a campaign, and I ultimately, it's my name on the hat, my campaign and myself, I have to own the fact that we didn't catch this earlier.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

So let's talk about that though, because let me assume for a second that there's some sort of good faith. I don't know how your party affiliation could have changed without you doing it. But let's assume that what you're saying is you don't. You said recall or you have no recollection. Now you're saying you absolutely did not do it. Let's assume that that's accurate for a second. Let's get into the due diligence because the public records did exist. I mean, your opponent in the primary found it. You have to assume that had you gotten the nomination from the Democratic Party, had you won the primary, that your Republican opponent in incumbent Carlos Jimenez, that his campaign knew or must have known and were probably sitting and salivating awaiting you your win in the primary so that they could get you thrown off the ballot and he would have been automatically reelected like that. But my question is, is that you raised over $700,000, you spent over $600,000 in addition to $11,000 that went to you to reimburse a loan to the campaign, a very common thing that happens with candidates. Most of that money went to season experienced political consultants and people who have a lot of experience in running candidates and campaigns who either did know or should have known that you were not in compliance with this law because based on public records readily available from the Broward so the elections office, the supervisor of elections office, this information was known, this gap in your Democratic registration that would have broken the 365 consecutive day law. Why did they keep taking your money and your donor's money for a candidate who was arguably and apparently ineligible?

[Hector Mujica]

Yeah, listen, two things. One, to address what you mentioned earlier about Carlos Jimenez salivating and being able to knock me out of the ballot. What my attorneys tell me, and again, I'm taking their word at face value, is that the way the law is written, the only people who can knock you out of the ballot is your primary opponents. So in the general, it can't happen. So even, even if I had made it through when this issue had not

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

come up, so an ineligible candidate can appear on the general election under Florida, I think that would have been an interesting challenge. I don't know that it would have gone a Democrats way in this legal system, but it's an, it's an interesting legal theory of the case that if you. That if everybody just kept their heads in the sand for a little bit longer, you could have made it to the general election ballot. But again, my concern here is, is that Democrats, especially in Florida, have limited resources, whether it's donors, volunteers, campaign staff. And so when an ineligible candidate diverts those resources away from eligible candidates, again, not casting aspersions on the quality of said candidate, but that to me, if you're representing that you're raising money from someone, you're saying, give me money, and with this money I am going to do X, Y and Z. But you are not eligible to do X, Y and Z. That's a little fraudy, dude. And do your donors have concerns about that? Is there a fear of, are they gonna be reimbursed? Is there fear of litigation from your donors for them?

[Hector Mujica]

If we had this knowledge the entire time, then I could completely agree with that assessment. If we're finding out about this on May 29th, why, if we. Listen, I am the first person to tell you that I wish we had known about this challenge before May 29th. We would have fought this in court from the beginning.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

I had have, but who knew what and when? Presumably, by the way, there's a lot of grifters in this town, a lot of, you know, the consultant cabal. Who prey on your first time candidate.

[Hector Mujica]

I am.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Okay. Who prey on first time candidates, particularly those who have the ability to fundraise as you clearly do. You know, with your background and your friends.

[Hector Mujica]

But I call it. They're the Consultant industrial complex.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Hundred percent. But like presumably they should have known now they should have come to you and said, hey, Hector, I don't think you're eligible, but. But you know, I call it consultant calculus. Candidate equals campaign equals cash. Therefore no candidate equals no campaign equals no cash. So obviously they'd prefer the former and the latter. Were you taken advantage of here by the consultant Industrial Complex?

[Hector Mujica]

I don't want to speculate onto who knew what. What I can tell you is I didn't know this was a challenge until May 29, the second we learned this was a challenge. Shortly thereafter, we stopped collecting donations. As we're talking to our legal counsel and beginning to what the legal implications of this is. For the entire first week of June, we still felt pretty certain that at least what my legal counsel was telling us was, hey, we feel certain that there's a pathway to challenge this. Maybe there were three avenues that they were thinking of challenging this through. One was talking about this voting discrepancy. And do we like, do we even think that given your record as a Democrat, is that even legitimate? Is that breaching the intent to vote law? The second piece was, is this law retroactive? Can this law that got signed on April 1st impact you if you entered into the race or if this happened in 2020?

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

Well, it was not retroactive. It started to apply in 2026, meaning to the qualifying period of 2026, which was backward looking in that you had to have been registered for 365 consecutive days. So it wasn't quite retroactive. But I see what you're saying.

[Hector Mujica]

And then the, well, and the last piece, and I think probably the most pointing piece of this whole thing is is this law constitutional? And a lot of folks were telling us that this law is likely unconstitutional.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

The Democrats are the ones here. You are a Democrat arguing against the constitutionality of a law that the Democrats fought very hard and successfully to pass in television.

[Hector Mujica]

Listen, I can't, that's a weird, I can't speak to what was, what was in the mind of my Democratic colleagues. And I think there's a difference between a law that's applicable to state Senate, to state House, to the governor's mansion, and federal law ultimately governs the Constitution, governs who is eligible to be a member of Congress or a member of the U.S. senate. And there's three stipulations. There's an age stipulation, there's a residency stipulation, and there's a citizenship stipulation. Beyond that, there's no additional. If you could also envision a world where then every state across this country begins to put in their own factors. Oh, hey, we want people that have been residents of Rhode island for the past, but they do.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

The states do control the elections and the states are able to regulate certain elements of eligibility. Listen, we spent a lot of time on this. I want to make sure we have time. So I want to ask you, let's assume for a moment, let's play, I don't want to say devil's advocate, but let's play fantasy roleplay here. You're still in the race right now. Let's imagine that you've been walking the district, you've been talking to people. What are the issues? What are the issues in this race and the things that you would want to be talking about other than what we've been talking about.

[Hector Mujica]

Listen, I think these are things that I'm going to continue to be talking about. Because at the end of the day, my fight doesn't end with this race. My fight ends when the state of Florida and the people of South Florida are better represented in City hall in Tallahassee, in Washington. And what I kept 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, the 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 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 changed the rules of the game completely.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

That's what I really want to talk. I was most impressed by your platform, is that you had. Now we can debate the merits of it, the strengths and weaknesses, but you had an AI platform on your website that you spoke about in events. And I'm with you. I think there's an inevitability to it. So the question is, how do we regulate it and ensure that it does not crush humanity both economically and militarily as well. So. And I don't think there are a lot of congressional candidates running in this country right now who are spending enough time on this. It is not some sort of niche issue. It is the tectonic, life altering issue of our time and perhaps all time.

[Hector Mujica]

And what you see is candidates end up leaning into these overly simplistic positions just to win votes. I mean, right now it's also because

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

they're all 80 years old.

[Hector Mujica]

Heck, I mean, they barely know how to function their iPhone. And somehow these are the people that weren't trusting with ushering us into the next technological world.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

People were calling their grandchildren for it

[Hector Mujica]

help on the whole hundred percent. Including Carlos Jimenez. Right. I mean, Carlos is pushing 80.

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[Hector Mujica]

And like. And there are Democratic nominees not that much younger either. So we sound 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, which I have. I worked there for 15 years.

[Louis (Producer or Crew Member)]

Where?

[Greg Cody (Advertiser)]

Google.

[Hector Mujica]

I was with Google. I led their philanthropy and impact investing arm globally for many, many years. And that gave me a really unique lens into what the promise of these technologies can be and also the potential downside. And how do we both honor the promise. This thing can be curing cancer. It can be helping us solve climate change. And how do we not lose our way of life? How do we not lose our environment? How do we not lose our dignity and our humanity in the process? And that's what I would argue. This next wave of members of Congress, this next wave of elected officials, those are the questions that they need to be addressing.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

And I would argue they're not questions of tomorrow, that they're very much questions of today. And to put that off for another cycle, I think is incredibly dangerous. And yeah, because the changes are happening now, whether we like it or not. The question is, will government be able to keep up with it in order to protect. I mean, to protect the homeland, to really. Just to do what their major function is, which is national security. And in many ways, that's exactly what this is. Hector. I'm sorry, we're out of time. We could do this literally all day. And I hope you'll come back again. Presumably you'll have the same hat or a different hat or something, but. But thanks so much for.

[Hector Mujica]

Thank you for having me here.

[Host (likely Dan Le Batard)]

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