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City of Cape Canaveral, Florida
Wes Morrison
Mayor, City of Cape Canaveral
Nonpartisan
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
100
/ 100
A
Raw: 6 of 6 dynamic max
· 3 of 30 answered
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✝ God First
2/ 70
🏛️ Local First
4/ 30
National Rank
#4,749 of 8,966 · bottom 47.0% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Official Profile
Religion: Non-denominational evangelical Christian (LifePointe Ministries, Titusville FL — Vision Team Leader and Men's Group Leader since 2012, per his own LinkedIn)
Background: Wesley 'Wes' Morrison (age ~41) is a third-generation Space Coast Floridian whose grandfather managed one of Cape Canaveral's first grocery stores in 1965. Titusville High School graduate; B.A. Political Science (Business minor), Florida State University 2004-2008 (first college graduate in his family). Professionally a Solar Project Developer at Liberty Watt; SEIA member, Top 500 Solar Contractors 2015-2016. Two terms on Cape Canaveral City Council before being elected the city's 2nd-youngest Mayor in November 2021. Re-elected November 5, 2024 with 77.09% (2,477 votes) over Angela Raymond (22.91% / 736 votes); current 3-year term runs 2024-2027. Chairs the city's Community Redevelopment Agency Board. Active Christian church-volunteer life: LifePointe Ministries (non-denominational evangelical Space Coast community church) — Vision Team Leader and Men's Group Leader since 2012; CREW29 homeless / cold-night-shelter ministry involvement. Holds an Environmental Stewardship certificate from the Institute for Humane Studies (Dec 2016). Wife Christina; daughter Parker.
ARCHETYPE: broad-tent nonpartisan Florida coastal-city mayor with a real off-the-dais Christian church-volunteer life (LifePointe Ministries Vision Team Leader since 2012) but ZERO public theology-cell record. Cleanly scored cells = 2 HARD TRUE + 1 weak TRUE: (1) economic_stewardship.q2 — 'passed the City's largest tax decrease in over a decade' per his own campaign site, corroborated by The Local Lens and Space Coast Daily coverage of Council tax-restraint posture; (2) refuse_state_overreach.q0 — led codified 5-0 Council opposition to FDOT's State Road A1A roundabout (Aug 2022) on local-control grounds, quoted: 'they are not going to go against the grain and do something that this community does not want'; (3) refuse_state_overreach.q3 — same A1A action functionally states the subsidiarity principle (city should decide local road design, not FDOT). 27 NULL — small-coastal-city nonpartisan mayor whose public record is roads, lagoon, code enforcement, budget, school closure, and city-manager accountability (led 3-2 Jan 2025 firing of City Manager Todd Morley 'with cause' for 'systemic failures in permitting, infrastructure, and records management'), not life/marriage/gender/election-integrity/2A. SOFT DEVIATION CONTEXT (rubric-adjacent, not a scored FALSE on any cell as currently written): Cape Canaveral joined the Climate Mayors Coalition (Paris-aligned, Clinton-Global-Initiative-seeded) + has 2021 Resiliency Action Plan + explicit 2035 net-zero municipal-building goals + joined the Climate Mayors EV Purchasing Collaborative; Morrison's day-job is solar industry; Council unanimously passed Resolution 2021-03 glyphosate ban while he was a council member. These technocratic / center-left environmental postures cluster but none cite a specific rubric cell's contrary position. Religion = LifePointe Ministries (off-dais Christian volunteer leadership) — does NOT translate to any christian_liberty cell because he has not invoked Christ in public mayoral statements on any rubric topic. Honest NULL on all sanctity/marriage/family/election/border/self-defense cells.
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[1]
Candidate (school board) opts the district into school-choice transfers + protects homeschool freedom + opposes truancy-based criminal referrals
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[4]
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
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
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[5]
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
TRUE (+2)[8]
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[9]
Official affirms subsidiarity — decisions made at the lowest competent level
TRUE (+2)[8]
Official has refused to enforce unconstitutional state directives
Not yet verified
Sources & Evidence
1 Center2 Official11 Other
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral,_FloridaEncyclopedia
www.cityofcapecanaveral.orgUnclassified
wesmorrison.comUnclassified
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
www.lifepointeministries.org/Unclassified
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]Searched City of Cape Canaveral FB page, council agendas, and news 2021-2026 for Pride proclamations or rainbow-flag activity at city hall; no evidence Cape Canaveral has issued Pride proclamations, and no evidence Morrison either supported or opposed any such measure. Honest null.
Searched City of Cape Canaveral FB page, council agendas, and news 2021-2026 for Pride proclamations or rainbow-flag activity at city hall; no evidence Cape Canaveral has issued Pride proclamations, and no evidence Morrison either supported or opposed any such measure. Honest null.
- [2]Advocated keeping Cape View Elementary open against the Brevard School Board's January 2026 closure vote on neighborhood-walkability grounds ('It's our only school. It's really important to us, and it's a part of our community'); this is a localist pro-public-school posture, NOT a universal school-choice or homeschool-freedom statement. Cannot score TRUE or FALSE on q0 — honest null. Unclassified
Advocated keeping Cape View Elementary open against the Brevard School Board's January 2026 closure vote on neighborhood-walkability grounds ('It's our only school. It's really important to us, and it's a part of our community'); this is a localist pro-public-school posture, NOT a universal school-choice or homeschool-freedom statement. Cannot score TRUE or FALSE on q0 — honest null.
- [3]Advocated keeping Cape View Elementary open against the Brevard School Board's January 2026 closure vote on neighborhood-walkability grounds ('It's our only school. It's really important to us, and it's a part of our community'); this is a localist pro-public-school posture, NOT a universal school-choice or homeschool-freedom statement. Cannot score TRUE or FALSE on q0 — honest null. Unclassified
Advocated keeping Cape View Elementary open against the Brevard School Board's January 2026 closure vote on neighborhood-walkability grounds ('It's our only school. It's really important to us, and it's a part of our community'); this is a localist pro-public-school posture, NOT a universal school-choice or homeschool-freedom statement. Cannot score TRUE or FALSE on q0 — honest null.
- [4]Christian volunteer leadership at LifePointe Ministries since 2012 is biographical/private-life and is listed under LinkedIn 'Volunteer Experience' — does NOT meet the 'publicly profess Christ in public office' bar (no mayoral statement profession of Christ on any rubric topic located). Honest null.
Christian volunteer leadership at LifePointe Ministries since 2012 is biographical/private-life and is listed under LinkedIn 'Volunteer Experience' — does NOT meet the 'publicly profess Christ in public office' bar (no mayoral statement profession of Christ on any rubric topic located). Honest null.
- [5]HARD TRUE — Documented tax-restraint record: campaign site states 'passed the City's largest tax decrease in over a decade' and 'reduced city debt'; corroborated by Local Lens and Space Coast Daily coverage of Morrison's millage-restraint and city-manager-accountability posture during multiple budget cycles. Goes beyond slogan — specific quantified claim with multi-source corroboration. Unclassified
HARD TRUE — Documented tax-restraint record: campaign site states 'passed the City's largest tax decrease in over a decade' and 'reduced city debt'; corroborated by Local Lens and Space Coast Daily coverage of Morrison's millage-restraint and city-manager-accountability posture during multiple budget cycles. Goes beyond slogan — specific quantified claim with multi-source corroboration.
- [6]HARD TRUE — Documented tax-restraint record: campaign site states 'passed the City's largest tax decrease in over a decade' and 'reduced city debt'; corroborated by Local Lens and Space Coast Daily coverage of Morrison's millage-restraint and city-manager-accountability posture during multiple budget cycles. Goes beyond slogan — specific quantified claim with multi-source corroboration. Unclassified
HARD TRUE — Documented tax-restraint record: campaign site states 'passed the City's largest tax decrease in over a decade' and 'reduced city debt'; corroborated by Local Lens and Space Coast Daily coverage of Morrison's millage-restraint and city-manager-accountability posture during multiple budget cycles. Goes beyond slogan — specific quantified claim with multi-source corroboration.
- [7]HARD TRUE — Documented tax-restraint record: campaign site states 'passed the City's largest tax decrease in over a decade' and 'reduced city debt'; corroborated by Local Lens and Space Coast Daily coverage of Morrison's millage-restraint and city-manager-accountability posture during multiple budget cycles. Goes beyond slogan — specific quantified claim with multi-source corroboration. Unclassified
HARD TRUE — Documented tax-restraint record: campaign site states 'passed the City's largest tax decrease in over a decade' and 'reduced city debt'; corroborated by Local Lens and Space Coast Daily coverage of Morrison's millage-restraint and city-manager-accountability posture during multiple budget cycles. Goes beyond slogan — specific quantified claim with multi-source corroboration.
- [8]HARD TRUE — Led codified 5-0 Council opposition to FDOT's State Road A1A roundabout (Aug 2022). Quote: 'Even though they do believe the roundabout is the best solution from their analysis for this community they are not going to go against the grain and do something that this community does not want.' This is concrete asserted local control against a top-down state agency directive. Unclassified
HARD TRUE — Led codified 5-0 Council opposition to FDOT's State Road A1A roundabout (Aug 2022). Quote: 'Even though they do believe the roundabout is the best solution from their analysis for this community they are not going to go against the grain and do something that this community does not want.' This is concrete asserted local control against a top-down state agency directive.
- [9]No COVID-mandate refusal posture located. Cape Canaveral has joined the Climate Mayors Coalition (Paris-aligned) — a posture that leans INTO climate compliance rather than refusing state/federal ESG overreach. Honest null per cell's narrow language ('protected citizens from state overreach') — joining a coalition is not actively unprotecting, but also is not a TRUE; rubric-adjacent deviation context is documented in notes. Official
No COVID-mandate refusal posture located. Cape Canaveral has joined the Climate Mayors Coalition (Paris-aligned) — a posture that leans INTO climate compliance rather than refusing state/federal ESG overreach. Honest null per cell's narrow language ('protected citizens from state overreach') — joining a coalition is not actively unprotecting, but also is not a TRUE; rubric-adjacent deviation context is documented in notes.
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