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City of Cocoa, Florida
Michael C. Blake
Mayor, City of Cocoa
Nonpartisan
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
100
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Raw: 4 of 4 dynamic max
· 2 of 30 answered
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✝ God First
0/ 70
🏛️ Local First
4/ 30
National Rank
#4,895 of 8,966 · bottom 45.4% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Official Profile
Background: Michael C. 'Mike' Blake is the elected at-large Mayor of the City of Cocoa, Florida (Brevard County, pop ~17K), and a lifelong Cocoa resident. He won re-election Nov 5, 2024 defeating George Allen Cowart 62.66% (5,081) to 37.34% (3,028) for a term running through the next regular city election in 2028. His tenure on Cocoa's elected body spans 17+ years: City Council 1998-2001, Mayor 2004-2012 (two terms), District 1 Councilman 2014-June 2016, and Mayor again from 2020 to present. By profession he is a retired Cocoa High School educator (retired early 2022). Outside city hall he has chaired the Cocoa Community Redevelopment Agency and Cocoa Housing Authority, led the Space Coast League of Cities, sat on the Florida Municipal Insurance Trust Board, and rose through the Florida League of Cities (FLC) ladder: 2nd Vice President 2022-23, 1st Vice President 2023-24, and FLC President 2024-25. FLC named him a Home Rule Hero in 2023, 2025, and 2026 for advocacy during legislative sessions to push back state preemption of municipal authority. Religion / family / military / education credentials are NOT FOUND in any public source reviewed.
ARCHETYPE: Florida-League-of-Cities institutional municipalist — current FLC President (2024-25 term) and 3-time Home Rule Hero (2023, 2025, 2026) whose entire public footprint is local-government home-rule / anti-state-preemption advocacy, with NO documented engagement on culture-war / theology / constitutional-rights rubric cells. Two HARD TRUE: (1) refuse_state_overreach.q0 — recurring FLC Home Rule Hero Award recipient explicitly recognized for advocacy 'to promote local voices making local choices' against state preemption of municipal authority during legislative sessions; (2) refuse_state_overreach.q3 — FLC presidency + Home Rule Hero pattern is verbatim subsidiarity ('local voices making local choices' = lowest-competent-level decision-making). 28 NULL — retired-teacher mayor of a small Brevard coastal city, no public statements located on life/marriage/family/election-integrity/border/2A. Routine police budget oversight (Cocoa runs its own PD, not a BCSO contract) does NOT meet HIGH BAR for public_justice.q0. Cocoa has NOT issued Pride proclamations of record (no FALSE on biblical_marriage.q4), NOT passed 2A sanctuary (no TRUE on self_defense.q1), is NOT a sanctuary city (FL SB 168 2019 preempts at state level). Party NULL — institutional FLC President role + Home Rule Hero is bipartisan municipal; no BREC or BDEC endorsement found and Ballotpedia 2024 race documents zero endorsements. Currency: 25-point 2024 re-election margin + 2026 Home Rule Hero dated to current legislative session = high-confidence still-in-office.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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Candidate (if District Attorney) has committed to prosecuting illegal abortion procedures; (if mayor/council) has supported pro-life city resolutions or refused to declare 'sanctuary city for abortion'
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes embryonic stem-cell research, IVF embryo discard, and chimeric experimentation
N/A · out of tier
Candidate opposes euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and quality-of-life rationing
N/A · out of tier
Candidate has never accepted Planned Parenthood, NARAL, EMILY's List, or abortion-industry PAC funding
N/A · out of tier
Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes all forms of same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in law
N/A · out of tier
Candidate opposes city/county trans-affirming policies (bathroom mandates on private businesses, Pride flag raisings at city hall, pronouns-required HR rules)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports no-fault divorce reform and policies that strengthen the marriage covenant
N/A · out of tier
Candidate opposes city/county Pride proclamations, Pride flags at city facilities, drag programming in libraries, and LGBT-affirming K-12 curriculum (school-board-relevant)
Not yet verified[1]
Candidate (school board) opts the district into school-choice transfers + protects homeschool freedom + opposes truancy-based criminal referrals
Not yet verified
Candidate (school board) requires parental notification before any gender/sexuality counseling of minors; (mayor/council) opposes city programs facilitating minor medical procedures without parents
Not yet verified
Candidate (school board) has voted to remove CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology materials from district curriculum and library shelves
Not yet verified
Candidate (mayor/council/library board) supports local enforcement of age-verification + removes sexualized content from library children's sections
N/A · out of tier
Candidate supports faith-based adoption/foster agencies and opposes placement of children with same-sex couples
N/A · out of tier
Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports conscience exemptions for Christian medical professionals, business owners, adoption agencies, and educators
N/A · out of tier
Candidate (city/county/school board) opposes mandatory pronoun policies for staff + employees + students
Not yet verified
Candidate (mayor/council) supports city/county Christian displays (Ten Commandments, Nativity scenes), invocation prayer at meetings, Sunday-closure where chosen by community
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Candidate opposes city-funded non-Christian religious displays/programming (Ramadan illumination, etc.) at city facilities
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Candidate (city/county) opposes city participation in CBDC pilot programs + supports cash-acceptance ordinances for local businesses
N/A · out of tier
Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
N/A · out of tier
Candidate (mayor/council) has voted against deficit-bond issuances for non-capital city expenditures + supports balanced city budgets without service cuts via tax increases on residents
Not yet verified[2]
Candidate supports usury limits, anti-debt-slavery protections, and tithe-friendly tax structures
N/A · out of tier
Candidate (city/county) has voted to remove city pension/treasury investment in ESG-aligned funds + opposes city participation in WEF-aligned sister-city programs
N/A · out of tier
Candidate (city clerk/county election official) supports hand-counted paper ballots at local precincts where state law permits
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Candidate (city clerk/election official) enforces state photo voter ID + citizenship verification at local precincts
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Candidate supports single-day in-person voting with absentee only for verified medical/military exceptions
N/A · out of tier
Candidate opposes mass mail-in voting, drop boxes, and ballot harvesting
N/A · out of tier
Candidate (city clerk/council) refused acceptance of private election-administration grants ('Zuckerbucks')
Not yet verified
Candidate supports completed physical border barrier and active military border presence
N/A · out of tier
Candidate (DA/sheriff) cooperates with ICE detainers + transfers; (mayor/council) supports local cooperation with ICE rather than sanctuary policies
Not yet verified
Candidate (city/county) has voted against local sanctuary-city ordinances + supports city cooperation with federal immigration enforcement
Not yet verified
Candidate supports mandatory E-Verify for all employment and benefit eligibility
N/A · out of tier
Candidate opposes birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, tourist births, and opposes foreign ownership of U.S. farmland
N/A · out of tier
Candidate (mayor/council) opposes local gun-registry ordinances + local gun-shop zoning restrictions
Not yet verified
Candidate (city/council) opposes local-ordinance red-flag/magazine/AWB analogs + local gun-shop zoning restrictions
Not yet verified
Candidate supports repeal of the National Firearms Act (NFA), Gun Control Act (GCA), and other federal gun regulations
N/A · out of tier
Candidate supports castle doctrine and stand-your-ground laws with full civil immunity for lawful defense
N/A · out of tier
Candidate opposes ATF overreach, citizen disarmament initiatives, and U.N. small-arms treaty participation
N/A · out of tier
Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
Not yet verified[3]
Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
Not yet verified
Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoers
Not yet verified
Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
Not yet verified
Official has declined state strings that compel ungodly or unconstitutional local policy
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Official has protected local citizens from state overreach (lockdowns, mandates, ESG)
Not yet verified
Official has refused to enforce unconstitutional state directives
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Sources & Evidence
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa,_FloridaEncyclopedia
www.cocoafl.orgUnclassified
www.cocoafl.gov/89/MayorOfficial
www.cocoafl.gov/85/City-CouncilOfficial
www.floridamayors.org/michael-c-blake/Unclassified
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
enr.electionsfl.org/BRE/3704/Summary/Unclassified
Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
www.cocoafl.gov/1869/PoliceOfficial
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References & footnotes
Every answer above with a [n] marker corresponds to one of the footnotes below. Wayback-archive links preserve the page as it read at our access date so a reader can verify the citation even if the original URL changes or disappears.
- [1]Searched Cocoa council agendas, news, FB for Pride proclamations or rainbow-flag activity under Blake; none found. Local Pride activity exists in Cocoa Village (private/Hello Again Books, Space Coast Pride) but no documented city government endorsement or proclamation. No Blake statement for or against. Honest null. Official
Searched Cocoa council agendas, news, FB for Pride proclamations or rainbow-flag activity under Blake; none found. Local Pride activity exists in Cocoa Village (private/Hello Again Books, Space Coast Pride) but no documented city government endorsement or proclamation. No Blake statement for or against. Honest null.
- [2]Has served on Florida Municipal Insurance Trust Board and overseen Cocoa budgets, but routine budget participation does not meet HIGH BAR for affirmative balanced-budget or anti-deficit advocacy. No on-record statement opposing deficit spending located. Honest null. Official
Has served on Florida Municipal Insurance Trust Board and overseen Cocoa budgets, but routine budget participation does not meet HIGH BAR for affirmative balanced-budget or anti-deficit advocacy. No on-record statement opposing deficit spending located. Honest null.
- [3]Cocoa runs its own PD (Cocoa Police Department, internationally accredited per city) and Blake oversees it as mayor of a council-manager city; routine police budget oversight and ceremonial police support do NOT meet HIGH BAR for affirmative pro-LE advocacy. No on-record defund-opposition statement or affirmative pro-LE advocacy located beyond standard mayoral function. Honest null per skill discipline. Official
Cocoa runs its own PD (Cocoa Police Department, internationally accredited per city) and Blake oversees it as mayor of a council-manager city; routine police budget oversight and ceremonial police support do NOT meet HIGH BAR for affirmative pro-LE advocacy. No on-record defund-opposition statement or affirmative pro-LE advocacy located beyond standard mayoral function. Honest null per skill discipline.
- [4]HARD TRUE — documented, awarded municipal Home Rule advocate against state preemption: FLC Home Rule Hero in 2023, 2025, and 2026 for legislative-session work 'to promote local voices making local choices.' Concrete on-record posture asserting local authority against top-down state mandates. (Note: FLC Home Rule advocacy is institutional-municipal in framing rather than 'unconstitutional' framing specifically, but the cell's broad reading — 'asserted local control against unconstitutional state mandates' — fits when state preemption of home-rule authority is the asserted overreach.) Official
HARD TRUE — documented, awarded municipal Home Rule advocate against state preemption: FLC Home Rule Hero in 2023, 2025, and 2026 for legislative-session work 'to promote local voices making local choices.' Concrete on-record posture asserting local authority against top-down state mandates. (Note: FLC Home Rule advocacy is institutional-municipal in framing rather than 'unconstitutional' framing specifically, but the cell's broad reading — 'asserted local control against unconstitutional state mandates' — fits when state preemption of home-rule authority is the asserted overreach.)
- [5]HARD TRUE — documented, awarded municipal Home Rule advocate against state preemption: FLC Home Rule Hero in 2023, 2025, and 2026 for legislative-session work 'to promote local voices making local choices.' Concrete on-record posture asserting local authority against top-down state mandates. (Note: FLC Home Rule advocacy is institutional-municipal in framing rather than 'unconstitutional' framing specifically, but the cell's broad reading — 'asserted local control against unconstitutional state mandates' — fits when state preemption of home-rule authority is the asserted overreach.) Official
HARD TRUE — documented, awarded municipal Home Rule advocate against state preemption: FLC Home Rule Hero in 2023, 2025, and 2026 for legislative-session work 'to promote local voices making local choices.' Concrete on-record posture asserting local authority against top-down state mandates. (Note: FLC Home Rule advocacy is institutional-municipal in framing rather than 'unconstitutional' framing specifically, but the cell's broad reading — 'asserted local control against unconstitutional state mandates' — fits when state preemption of home-rule authority is the asserted overreach.)
- [6]HARD TRUE — documented, awarded municipal Home Rule advocate against state preemption: FLC Home Rule Hero in 2023, 2025, and 2026 for legislative-session work 'to promote local voices making local choices.' Concrete on-record posture asserting local authority against top-down state mandates. (Note: FLC Home Rule advocacy is institutional-municipal in framing rather than 'unconstitutional' framing specifically, but the cell's broad reading — 'asserted local control against unconstitutional state mandates' — fits when state preemption of home-rule authority is the asserted overreach.) Unclassified
HARD TRUE — documented, awarded municipal Home Rule advocate against state preemption: FLC Home Rule Hero in 2023, 2025, and 2026 for legislative-session work 'to promote local voices making local choices.' Concrete on-record posture asserting local authority against top-down state mandates. (Note: FLC Home Rule advocacy is institutional-municipal in framing rather than 'unconstitutional' framing specifically, but the cell's broad reading — 'asserted local control against unconstitutional state mandates' — fits when state preemption of home-rule authority is the asserted overreach.)
- [7]HARD TRUE — FLC presidency (2024-25) + Home Rule Hero pattern (2023, 2025, 2026) is by definition subsidiarity advocacy. The FLC Home Rule Hero recognition language is verbatim 'local voices making local choices,' which is the lowest-competent-level decision-making principle the cell measures. Official
HARD TRUE — FLC presidency (2024-25) + Home Rule Hero pattern (2023, 2025, 2026) is by definition subsidiarity advocacy. The FLC Home Rule Hero recognition language is verbatim 'local voices making local choices,' which is the lowest-competent-level decision-making principle the cell measures.
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