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City of Cape Canaveral, Florida
Mickie Kellum
Mayor Pro Tem / City Council, City of Cape Canaveral
Nonpartisan
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
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✝ God First
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🏛️ Local First
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National Rank
#8,517 of 8,966 · bottom 5.0% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Official Profile
Religion: City bio referenced 'Member of Our Saviors Parish' (specific denomination/congregation not independently verified)
Background: Maria 'Mickie' Kellum is a FORMER Mayor Pro Tem / City Council member, City of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Elected November 2019; re-elected November 2022 for a term ending November 2025. STALENESS FIX: As of 2026-06-05 the live capecanaveral.gov authoritative Elected Officials page (/community_/elected_officials.php) lists Mayor Wes Morrison, Mayor Pro Tem Kay Jackson, and Council Members Andrea King, Tom Shoriak, Don Willis — Kellum is NOT on the current council. Older stale /your_elected_officials.php page still shows Kellum as Mayor Pro Tem and is superseded. The Nov 4, 2025 election filled the two seats expiring 2025; Kellum was not retained. 30+ years Cape Canaveral resident; widow of retired tugboat captain Jeff Kellum; mother of two, grandmother of four; former small-business owner. Heavy civic engagement: Veterans Park revitalization, monthly VFW Post 10131 breakfast volunteering, former President of VFW Auxiliary, former Cape Canaveral Culture & Leisure Services Advisory Board, Project Manager/Treasurer for Ais Village Trail Public Archaeology Organization, Space Coast Little League board.
STALENESS FIX: status set from active to former — Kellum's Nov 2022 term expired Nov 2025; current capecanaveral.gov/community_/elected_officials.php authoritative roster shows Kay Jackson as Mayor Pro Tem + Andrea King and Tom Shoriak as new council members in the seats expiring 2025+. Kellum was not retained at the Nov 4, 2025 election. (Note: an older /government/your_elected_officials.php page still shows Kellum as Mayor Pro Tem — that page is stale and authoritative roster supersedes it.) ARCHETYPE: Veterans-Park / VFW-focused civic-engagement small-city Mayor Pro Tem with limited public footprint on Pillar A/B cells. 0 TRUE / 0 FALSE = no scoreable positions through tenure. 30 NULL — most rubric cells lack any documented HIGH-BAR position. Notable on-record items that do NOT qualify as TRUE/FALSE per SKILL discipline: (a) 2022 candidate quote 'I want to make sure we can keep that small-town feeling and keeping taxes low… infrastructure… pipes and sewer system… stormwater runoff out the lagoon' — generic rhetorical not specific roll-call (economic_stewardship.q2 NULL not TRUE); (b) January 2025 voted with Morrison + Jackson 3-2 to fire City Manager Todd Morley over public-records / code-enforcement failures (Davis + Willis dissented) — management dispute NOT affirmative pro-LE advocacy (public_justice.q0 NULL); (c) NOT on FLC Home Rule Heroes list 2022-2025 (refuse_state_overreach.q3 NULL — contrast Don Willis who IS a Home Rule Hero). Cape Canaveral has NOT issued Pride proclamations + NOT passed 2A sanctuary resolution per prior Morrison/Willis batch and this batch's searches; FL SB 168 (2019) preempts sanctuary cities + FL HB 543 (2023) constitutional carry at state level. Church bio 'Our Saviors Parish' is too unspecific for HARD christian_liberty.q0 TRUE — denomination and congregation unverified, so NULL. Status=former is the win this batch — record now exits active queue under runbook's active() filter.
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
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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
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
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Candidate (school board) has voted to remove CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology materials from district curriculum and library shelves
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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[1]
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
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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
Not yet verified
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 asserted local control against unconstitutional state mandates
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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 affirms subsidiarity — decisions made at the lowest competent level
Not yet verified[4]
Official has refused to enforce unconstitutional state directives
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Sources & Evidence
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral,_FloridaEncyclopedia
www.cityofcapecanaveral.orgUnclassified
oursavioursparish.org/Unclassified
www.flcities.com/advocacy-pages/home-rule-heroesUnclassified
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References & footnotes
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- [1]Florida Today / Yahoo candidate questionnaire quote: 'I want to make sure we can keep that small-town feeling and keeping taxes low'; campaign messaging: 'keeping taxes, fees and debt low.' Per refine-scorecard discipline ('vague slogans = NULL, not TRUE'), no documented vote to lower millage, reject debt, or oppose a rate hike was located that is attributable to Kellum by name. 2024 LocalLens article on 7.41% millage debate does NOT attribute a specific Kellum vote. Honest null. Unclassified
Florida Today / Yahoo candidate questionnaire quote: 'I want to make sure we can keep that small-town feeling and keeping taxes low'; campaign messaging: 'keeping taxes, fees and debt low.' Per refine-scorecard discipline ('vague slogans = NULL, not TRUE'), no documented vote to lower millage, reject debt, or oppose a rate hike was located that is attributable to Kellum by name. 2024 LocalLens article on 7.41% millage debate does NOT attribute a specific Kellum vote. Honest null.
- [2]Florida Today / Yahoo candidate questionnaire quote: 'I want to make sure we can keep that small-town feeling and keeping taxes low'; campaign messaging: 'keeping taxes, fees and debt low.' Per refine-scorecard discipline ('vague slogans = NULL, not TRUE'), no documented vote to lower millage, reject debt, or oppose a rate hike was located that is attributable to Kellum by name. 2024 LocalLens article on 7.41% millage debate does NOT attribute a specific Kellum vote. Honest null. Unclassified
Florida Today / Yahoo candidate questionnaire quote: 'I want to make sure we can keep that small-town feeling and keeping taxes low'; campaign messaging: 'keeping taxes, fees and debt low.' Per refine-scorecard discipline ('vague slogans = NULL, not TRUE'), no documented vote to lower millage, reject debt, or oppose a rate hike was located that is attributable to Kellum by name. 2024 LocalLens article on 7.41% millage debate does NOT attribute a specific Kellum vote. Honest null.
- [3]January 2025 Kellum voted with Morrison + Jackson 3-2 to fire City Manager Todd Morley (Davis + Willis dissented). This is a management dispute over public-records / code-enforcement failures, NOT affirmative pro-LE advocacy. HIGH BAR not met. Cape Canaveral contracts with BCSO for law enforcement; no documented affirmative pro-BCSO statement from Kellum located. Honest null. Unclassified
January 2025 Kellum voted with Morrison + Jackson 3-2 to fire City Manager Todd Morley (Davis + Willis dissented). This is a management dispute over public-records / code-enforcement failures, NOT affirmative pro-LE advocacy. HIGH BAR not met. Cape Canaveral contracts with BCSO for law enforcement; no documented affirmative pro-BCSO statement from Kellum located. Honest null.
- [4]Kellum NOT on Florida League of Cities Home Rule Heroes list for 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025 (contrast Don Willis who IS recognized). No subsidiarity advocacy statement located. Honest null. Unclassified
Kellum NOT on Florida League of Cities Home Rule Heroes list for 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025 (contrast Don Willis who IS recognized). No subsidiarity advocacy statement located. Honest null.
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