Florida state Rep. Hillary Cassel is talking more about why she decided to leave the Democratic Party and start the new year as a Republican.

Cassel’s move gave Florida House Republicans an 87-33 supermajority. She followed Rep. Susan Valdes, who switched parties earlier this year. Cassel said the instance she felt so disenfranchised as a Jewish woman from the Democratic Party that she decided to leave it “will live with me forever.”