Share
City of Melbourne, Florida
Rachael Bassett
City Council, District 4, City of Melbourne, Florida (sitting · term to Nov 2026)
Nonpartisan
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
100
/ 100
A
Raw: 4 of 4 dynamic max
· 2 of 30 answered
Local tier30 of 50 rubric questions apply at this office level — federal-only questions are marked N/A and excluded from the dynamic max. How tier grading works →
Last verified: · scorecard-level timestamp
✝ God First
2/ 70
🏛️ Local First
2/ 30
National Rank
#4,894 of 8,966 · bottom 45.4% among candidates with at least one scored answer
See the full rankings →Contact This Official
Reach out directly. Your voice matters. Proverbs 29:2 — When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice.
Official Profile
Background: Florida-certified Realtor (Melbourne Realty, Inc.); Florida Private Investigator and Security certification; Certified Process Server & Notary (18th Judicial Circuit). Prior career: Brevard County Sheriff's Office dispatcher. Sociology major (concentration Forensic Psychology), Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Born North Adams, MA; moved to Florida 2012. Lives in Melbourne with fiancé and two children (per 2022 candidate profile). Lifetime NRA member; member Florida Association for Private Investigators; member Space Coast Realtors Association; member South Brevard NAACP (investigator on Legal Redress team). Elected Nov 8, 2022 to District 4 (officially non-partisan, four-year term); current term ends Nov 2026.
Next Election Year: 2026
[2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement] Roster verified: sitting District 4 council member; first elected Nov 8, 2022; current term ends Nov 2026 (re-candidacy not confirmed in available votebrevard.gov listing as of search date). Background: former Brevard County Sheriff's Office dispatcher → current Realtor, FL Private Investigator, Certified Process Server (18th Judicial Circuit), Notary. HARD evidence (cited): 2022 endorsement by Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey + sustained law-enforcement professional background (BCSO dispatcher; PI working civil/criminal cases for attorneys) prominently featured on official city bio + voted aye on FY26 budget that included dedicated debt-service millage for new Police HQ — affirmative pro-LE advocacy clearing the FXBG high bar (Sheriff's personal endorsement is functionally a single-issue LE-equivalent endorsement) → public_justice q0 TRUE. Lifetime NRA membership documented on official city bio — self-affiliation with the NRA's positions covering exactly q1 (red-flag laws, magazine limits, AWB, registries); per the skill's HARD-endorsement rule for single-issue groups, lifetime membership clears the bar → self_defense q1 TRUE. NOT scored on self_defense q0 (constitutional carry / no-permit): NRA membership doesn't directly evidence the narrower permit-less-carry position → null. NOT scored on economic_stewardship q2 despite aye vote on FY2025-26 budget with 11.4%-above-rollback millage: q2 is narrowly about deficit spending / BBA, not millage votes; higher millage may even improve budget balance → null per discipline. NOT scored on christian_liberty for her vote AGAINST Charlie Kirk Lane (Sept 2025): Kirk Lane isn't a Christian symbol per se and her stated rationale was not anti-Christian → null. NO EVIDENCE FOUND on sanctity of life, biblical marriage, transgender ideology, parental rights/CRT/SOGI, invocation/Nativity, election integrity, refuse-state-overreach, or sanctuary/ICE — those cells null. Religion / church: NO EVIDENCE FOUND. Partisan registration: not publicly confirmed (office officially non-partisan).
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
Not yet verified
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
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
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes city-funded non-Christian religious displays/programming (Ramadan illumination, etc.) at city facilities
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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
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
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
Not yet verified
Official has declined state strings that compel ungodly or unconstitutional local policy
Not yet verified
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
Official has refused to enforce unconstitutional state directives
Not yet verified
Sources & Evidence
1 Official9 Other
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne,_FloridaEncyclopedia
www.melbourneflorida.orgUnclassified
Bias ratings sourced from AllSides and Ad Fontes Media. Classifications for government, reference, and advocacy domains are maintained by U.S.M.C. Ministries; see source_bias.json.
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]Lifetime NRA member, publicly stated on her official city of Melbourne biography page — self-affiliation with the NRA's HARD positions opposing red-flag laws, magazine limits, AWB, and gun registries (the scope of q1). Unclassified
Lifetime NRA member, publicly stated on her official city of Melbourne biography page — self-affiliation with the NRA's HARD positions opposing red-flag laws, magazine limits, AWB, and gun registries (the scope of q1).
- [2]Lifetime NRA member, publicly stated on her official city of Melbourne biography page — self-affiliation with the NRA's HARD positions opposing red-flag laws, magazine limits, AWB, and gun registries (the scope of q1). Unclassified
Lifetime NRA member, publicly stated on her official city of Melbourne biography page — self-affiliation with the NRA's HARD positions opposing red-flag laws, magazine limits, AWB, and gun registries (the scope of q1).
- [3]Endorsed by Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey in 2022; LE professional background (former BCSO dispatcher, current PI) is centerpiece of official city bio; voted aye on FY2025-26 budget that included dedicated debt-service millage for the new Police Headquarters — affirmative pro-LE posture clearing the FXBG affirmative-advocacy bar. Unclassified
Endorsed by Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey in 2022; LE professional background (former BCSO dispatcher, current PI) is centerpiece of official city bio; voted aye on FY2025-26 budget that included dedicated debt-service millage for the new Police Headquarters — affirmative pro-LE posture clearing the FXBG affirmative-advocacy bar.
Have Information About This Official?
Help us improve this scorecard. If you have evidence of this official's positions — voting records, social media posts, public statements, or corrections — submit it below and we'll review and update the profile.