Dan is a 28 year old North Brevard native running for Florida State House District 31. A small business owner and handyman, Dan knows precisely the kind of grit it takes to run a business in this economy. Between rising costs, tariffs, and a State Legislature that has been sold to special interests, Dan Cicirelli is ready to bring his "fix it" attitude to Tallahassee and fight for real change that helps you.
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Seven issues in plain language. The work that needs doing.
The wealthiest nation in the history of the world has no excuse for failing to ensure every Floridian can live a healthy, dignified life. Equal protection by the law and from the law is not optional. It is the baseline.
Your right to love who you love, to make your own medical decisions, to protect your bodily autonomy, and to defend yourself and your family are nonnegotiable. No exceptions.
Fear is not governance. When the state uses fear as a tool for control, there is a word for that, and the word is coercion. I will not govern that way, and I will fight anyone who does.
For 28 years, one party has controlled Tallahassee, and they have used that power to silence your local leaders on everything from lagoon protection to housing to worker safety.
Your city and county officials cannot pass common-sense ordinances without the threat of state punishment or corporate lawsuits. The decisions that shape your daily life are being made by people who have never set foot in your neighborhood.
The people closest to a problem should be the ones who solve it. I am running to bring government back home, where it belongs, and to make sure your local leaders answer to you instead of a coercive Tallahassee.
There is no single fix for healthcare access in North Brevard. Our local hospitals are closing due to aging infrastructure and engineering concerns. Those concerns are legitimate, but the consequences are a direct result of decades of failed planning, and the people living here are paying for it.
Access to care in our area is among the worst in the nation. Ambulance transit times are up. Healthcare outcomes are down. The new hospital being built on Merritt Island will help, but it will not solve the problem on its own. The issue is capacity: we need more beds, more doctors, and more ambulances.
I will work with public regulators, private healthcare partners, and local advisory boards to expand healthcare access in our district as fast as possible. I want my children to be born here. I will build a district where that is a safe choice to make.
There is no version of representing this district that does not include protecting and restoring the Indian River Lagoon. Full stop.
The Save Our Indian River Lagoon program is one of the best-run environmental restoration organizations in the state. Their financial transparency is second to none, their data-driven approach keeps them on mission, and their results speak for themselves. The way SOIRL operates should be a model for how every government program runs.
I support continuing and expanding these efforts, and I encourage every voter in the district to vote yes on the half-cent sales tax that funds this critical work. The lagoon is not a political issue. It is the thing that makes this place worth living in.
Our schools are struggling by nearly every measure, and the policy decisions that got us here were not driven by data. They were driven by ideology.
At the state level, the voucher funding hole is bleeding public schools dry, and we need to plug it. Every dollar diverted from public education without accountability is a dollar taken from the classrooms that serve the vast majority of Florida's children.
At the local level, I strongly support the work of the Brevard Schools Foundation and programs like Taking Stock in Children, which pair students with mentors and real support grounded in their own communities. Every child deserves guidance and opportunity, especially the ones the system is most likely to overlook.
We also need a dramatically expanded use of juvenile civil citations in place of arrests. The data is clear: keeping young people out of the correctional system lowers repeat offenses, improves long-term outcomes, and saves taxpayer money. Arresting a teenager for a nonviolent offense does not make the community safer. It makes the problem worse.
Lowering the cost of living is the single most important thing I can do for the people in this district. I will fight for, sponsor, and vote for any policy that puts money back in your pocket.
The biggest lever available in Tallahassee right now is insurance reform. The policy vehicles already exist. Homeowners insurance premiums in Florida could fall as much as 60 percent with the right reforms, and that reduction feeds directly into cheaper mortgages, lower rent, and more affordable condo fees. We can restore price stability for millions of Floridians who own homes, drive cars, and are watching their costs climb every year.
When the private market fails to provide affordable coverage, the government has a responsibility to step in. That is not ideology. That is the job.
This one is personal. I believe that data paid for by the taxpayer should be available to the taxpayer. Period.
Florida has been funding environmental and pollution data collection for decades, but that data sits in agency silos where it makes little impact because it is not communicated well or understood easily. We need a free, centralized, open-source dashboard that takes our existing environmental data and makes it visible, searchable, and understandable to every resident in the state. Who is polluting, where, how much, and what is being done about it.
No single university or nonprofit can take on a project at this scale. It has to come from the state. It is time to stop collecting data nobody sees and start building tools that let the public hold polluters accountable. We owe the next generation a state they can actually live in.
Born at Wuesthoff Hospital in Rockledge. Raised in North Brevard. No plans to be the Cicirelli who leaves.
Daniel Cicirelli was born at Wuesthoff Hospital in Rockledge on June 1st, 1997, and has lived in Brevard County ever since. He was homeschooled from first grade through graduation, finished with a 4.4 GPA, and earned his Associate's degree Summa Cum Laude from Eastern Florida State College with a focus in history and education.
He was on track to become a teacher, but made a decision that thousands of Floridians make every year: he chose a career that could actually support a family, because a teaching salary in this state cannot. That tradeoff still sits with him, and it is one of the reasons he is running.
Daniel spent most of his professional career in critical infrastructure. He started in construction as a framer before being hired by Johnson Controls as a design consultant for life safety systems, working on fire alarm and emergency communication infrastructure in hospitals, the Orange County Convention Center, and Kennedy Space Center.
When COVID hit, he was the youngest person in his office, which made him the one who went into the hospitals. He spent the pandemic performing emergency repairs and system maintenance in medical facilities from Daytona to West Palm to Orlando, testing positive for COVID seven times along the way. He later worked as an electrical estimator for Gulf Coast Power and Light before being recruited back to Johnson Controls at a significantly higher salary. Through all of it, he developed a firsthand understanding of how the infrastructure people depend on actually gets built, maintained, and too often neglected.
In 2023, Daniel's marriage ended. In 2024, his divorce was finalized and he lost his house. He started a handyman business that fall and began rebuilding in the same community where he grew up.
Around the same time, he started volunteering a day each week doing free handyman work for elderly residents in Cocoa who needed help and couldn't afford it. Fixing screen doors, patching leaks, handling the small stuff that becomes serious when there's nobody to call.
That volunteer work expanded quickly. Daniel joined the Brevard Democrats in December 2024, the Young Democrats of Brevard in January, and by spring of 2025 he had founded the Space Coast Self Defense Club and Space Coast Protest Medics, become a precinct organizer for the Brevard DEC, joined the Environmental Caucus and the Progressive Democratic Caucus, and canvassed for the Vance campaign during the special election.
He wasn't running for anything. He was just involved, consistently and without fanfare, in the daily work of trying to make his community function better.
On February 1st, 2026, Daniel gave a speech about ICE enforcement in Brevard County. The next day, a stranger approached him and told him he should run for office. A month later, he filed. On March 18th, his paperwork was processed by the State of Florida, and here we are.
Daniel's family has been in Brevard for over four decades. His father David moved from Miami in 1981 to work as an electrician at Kennedy Space Center. His mother Joan was born and raised in Merritt Island. They recently retired to a small sheep ranch in Gilchrist County. His sister Gena lives in Cocoa. Daniel has no plans to be the Cicirelli who leaves.
He is running for Florida House District 31 on affordable housing, healthcare access, clean water, functioning infrastructure, and a government that is more interested in solving problems than performing outrage. He believes good governance should be quiet, competent, and relentlessly focused on the people who are already here. This is his first campaign, and he's in it because someone told him he should be, and he couldn't find a reason they were wrong.
No corporate strings. No special interests. Every dollar comes from people who want this district to work again.
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