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City of Melbourne
Paul Alfrey
Mayor of Melbourne, Florida (sitting · 2nd term, ends Nov 2028; current charter is 2 consecutive 4-year terms)
Republican
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
50
/ 100
F
Raw: 2 of 4 dynamic max
· 2 of 30 answered
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✝ God First
2/ 70
🏛️ Local First
0/ 30
National Rank
#5,067 of 8,966 · bottom 43.5% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Official Profile
Background: Retired law enforcement (3 years Sanford PD, 12 years Melbourne PD — K-9, Street Crimes, Community Policing, FTO; retired 2012). Florida Certified Contractor, Home Inspector, Insurance Agent; small-business owner. Eau Gallie HS; Seminole State College of Florida; Miami Dade College. First elected to City Council District 5 in 2016 (served as Vice Mayor); elected Mayor November 2020; re-elected November 5, 2024 with 50.84% (19,142 votes) over former mayor Kathy Meehan (25.92%) and Hazel Buggs (23.24%). Sits on Melbourne Orlando International Airport Authority Board and Melbourne Affordable Housing Board.
Next Election Year: 2028
[2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: sitting Mayor of Melbourne, FL (2nd term to Nov 2028); not on 2026 ballot. Party R (Republican Mayors Association affiliate publicly recognized 2024 re-election). HARD evidence (cited): In Sept 2022 publicly defended the Space Coast Pride permit — which included a drag queen story time component — against State Rep. Randy Fine's demand the city pull the permit, posting on Facebook that drag queen story time 'is an event that happens nationwide and is attended by both adults and children' and that the organizers 'had as much right to organize as any.' This is affirmative defense of city-permitted LGBT promotion in public policy against a same-party state-rep challenge — biblical_marriage q4 FALSE. In Feb 2022 personally led Melbourne's 'Just Say No' anti-panhandling public-safety campaign rolled out as a Mayor+MPD partnership ('Just say no' message + city plan); 15-year retired Melbourne PD officer (K-9, Street Crimes, Community Policing, FTO) whose LE identity is centerpiece of his official bio; in June 2020 publicly defended the office of LE while distancing from a single FOP-president-personal-speech incident ('whoever put this up... they need to go') — affirmative pro-LE public-safety advocacy under the same standard applied to Vice Mayor Neuman's Jan 2025 MPD-partnership homelessness resolution → public_justice q0 TRUE. NOT scored on economic_stewardship q2 despite his '10-year low millage' boast: the question is narrowly about deficit spending / BBA, not generic low-tax claims. In Sept 2025 personally proposed renaming a stretch of Cypress Avenue to 'Charlie Kirk Lane' after Kirk's assassination ('He will not be forgotten in Melbourne!') and promoted 12+ Brevard County memorial billboards; council voted 5-1 against (only Vice Mayor Neuman supported). This is ideological signal but does not cleanly map to a christian_liberty rubric cell (Kirk Lane is a memorial naming of a Christian-affiliated public figure, not a Christian symbol or prayer policy) → christian_liberty cells null per the no-overread rule. NO EVIDENCE FOUND on sanctity of life, transgender ideology, family/parental rights/schools (city does not run schools), invocation/Nativity policy, election integrity, refuse-state-overreach, sanctuary/ICE cooperation, or 2A — those cells null. Religion / church: NO EVIDENCE FOUND. DEVIATION ALERT (R out-of-line on biblical_marriage q4).
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'
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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 (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
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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
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
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
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
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Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
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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)
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Official affirms subsidiarity — decisions made at the lowest competent level
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Official has refused to enforce unconstitutional state directives
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- [1]Publicly defended the Space Coast Pride permit — which included a drag queen story time — against State Rep. Randy Fine's demand the city pull it; wrote on Facebook that drag queen story time 'happens nationwide and is attended by both adults and children' and accused Fine of trying to 'inflame our community.' Unclassified
Publicly defended the Space Coast Pride permit — which included a drag queen story time — against State Rep. Randy Fine's demand the city pull it; wrote on Facebook that drag queen story time 'happens nationwide and is attended by both adults and children' and accused Fine of trying to 'inflame our community.'
- [2]Publicly defended the Space Coast Pride permit — which included a drag queen story time — against State Rep. Randy Fine's demand the city pull it; wrote on Facebook that drag queen story time 'happens nationwide and is attended by both adults and children' and accused Fine of trying to 'inflame our community.' Unclassified
Publicly defended the Space Coast Pride permit — which included a drag queen story time — against State Rep. Randy Fine's demand the city pull it; wrote on Facebook that drag queen story time 'happens nationwide and is attended by both adults and children' and accused Fine of trying to 'inflame our community.'
- [3]Publicly defended the Space Coast Pride permit — which included a drag queen story time — against State Rep. Randy Fine's demand the city pull it; wrote on Facebook that drag queen story time 'happens nationwide and is attended by both adults and children' and accused Fine of trying to 'inflame our community.' Unclassified
Publicly defended the Space Coast Pride permit — which included a drag queen story time — against State Rep. Randy Fine's demand the city pull it; wrote on Facebook that drag queen story time 'happens nationwide and is attended by both adults and children' and accused Fine of trying to 'inflame our community.'
- [4]Personally led the Feb 2022 'Just Say No' anti-panhandling public-safety campaign as a Mayor+MPD partnership rollout; 15-yr retired Melbourne PD officer (K-9, Street Crimes, Community Policing, FTO) whose LE identity is centerpiece of his official mayoral bio — affirmative pro-LE/public-safety advocacy under the same standard applied to Vice Mayor Neuman's MPD-partnership emergency resolution. Unclassified
Personally led the Feb 2022 'Just Say No' anti-panhandling public-safety campaign as a Mayor+MPD partnership rollout; 15-yr retired Melbourne PD officer (K-9, Street Crimes, Community Policing, FTO) whose LE identity is centerpiece of his official mayoral bio — affirmative pro-LE/public-safety advocacy under the same standard applied to Vice Mayor Neuman's MPD-partnership emergency resolution.
- [5]Personally led the Feb 2022 'Just Say No' anti-panhandling public-safety campaign as a Mayor+MPD partnership rollout; 15-yr retired Melbourne PD officer (K-9, Street Crimes, Community Policing, FTO) whose LE identity is centerpiece of his official mayoral bio — affirmative pro-LE/public-safety advocacy under the same standard applied to Vice Mayor Neuman's MPD-partnership emergency resolution. Unclassified
Personally led the Feb 2022 'Just Say No' anti-panhandling public-safety campaign as a Mayor+MPD partnership rollout; 15-yr retired Melbourne PD officer (K-9, Street Crimes, Community Policing, FTO) whose LE identity is centerpiece of his official mayoral bio — affirmative pro-LE/public-safety advocacy under the same standard applied to Vice Mayor Neuman's MPD-partnership emergency resolution.
- [6]Personally led the Feb 2022 'Just Say No' anti-panhandling public-safety campaign as a Mayor+MPD partnership rollout; 15-yr retired Melbourne PD officer (K-9, Street Crimes, Community Policing, FTO) whose LE identity is centerpiece of his official mayoral bio — affirmative pro-LE/public-safety advocacy under the same standard applied to Vice Mayor Neuman's MPD-partnership emergency resolution. Unclassified
Personally led the Feb 2022 'Just Say No' anti-panhandling public-safety campaign as a Mayor+MPD partnership rollout; 15-yr retired Melbourne PD officer (K-9, Street Crimes, Community Policing, FTO) whose LE identity is centerpiece of his official mayoral bio — affirmative pro-LE/public-safety advocacy under the same standard applied to Vice Mayor Neuman's MPD-partnership emergency resolution.
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