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Elijah Dury

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Elijah Dury

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No Party Affiliation

Education

Associate

St. Petersburg College, 2016

Bachelor's

Florida Institute of Technology, 2020

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Quality Engineer
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Elijah Dury (No Party Affiliation) (also known as Peirce) ran for election to the Florida House of Representatives to represent District 32. He was disqualified from the general election scheduled on November 8, 2022.

Dury completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Elijah Dury earned an associate degree from St. Petersburg College in 2016 and a bachelor's degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in 2020. His career experience includes working as a quality engineer.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Florida House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

The general election was canceled. Thad Altman (R) won without appearing on the ballot.

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2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Elijah Dury completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dury's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I arrived in Florida at the age of two, in 2001, when my father moved here to teach in a public school. I lived in Tarpon Springs (a great little town an hour north of Tampa) where I attended St. Petersburg College as a dual enrollment student during high school. I attended Florida Institute of Technology from 2016 until 2020, majoring in Aerospace Engineering and minoring in History. I did not graduate at the top of my class, but I did graduate – albeit with a total lack of fanfare or pomp. Graduation ceremonies were cancelled across the world in Spring 2020 as COVID-19 caused panic. After graduating, I worked as an Design Engineer, and now as a Quality Engineer. I have firsthand experience solving problems, and I know they are not solved by throwing taxpayer money at a problem – as both Republicans and Democrats do with the most issues they come across. The citizens Brevard, and Florida, deserve to have their tax dollars used for things that help them.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has driven home and rent prices skyward, with homes up nearly 40% from 2019 prices in Florida. Affordable housing is clearly necessary, as income has not increased by nearly as much, putting home buying firmly out of reach of many.
  • Cryptocurrencies are useful in numerous ways, allowing people to donate to social causes or family members without interference from governmental organizations. An excellent example of this is Cuban-Americans sending money to relatives in Cuba, which the Cuban government blocks with traditional currencies.
  • It does not help the citizens for the government to give corporations (often national or multinational with no real ties to the state other than a branch location) thousands or millions of dollars in subsidies, tax rebates, or other support.
School Choice, Decentralized Currencies and Cryptocurrencies, Affordable Housing, Drug Decriminalization.
The most fundamental responsibilities of any elected office are to protect your citizens from those that would do them harm (an enemy state or a medical conditions) or take advantage of them (like a private corporation or others in the government,) as well as effective and efficient use of the tax revenue from the citizens. If tax revenue is not used for as specified fir the benefit of citizens as they showed by their votes, it should be returned to them.
If I am elected as representative for district 32, I hope my legacy is that I made our district and Florida as a whole a better and freer place for our current and future residents.
Districts drawn by any elected official or nonelected government office will inevitably be biased or accused of bias. The lawsuits and redrawings can take months or years and cost the taxpayers greatly.
The solution is to use modern technologies, such as neural networks, and program them to draw districts as fair as possible – based on geography and population, but not given data on voter party registration, income, or any other discriminatory factor. The resulting maps would be as close to fair as possible.
criminal justice and public safety committee

early learning and elementary education subcommittee

government operations subcommittee
The American government is set up so that no single individual has all the power – the executive branch can write executive orders bypassing the normal process, but the legislative branch can remove the president from the executive branch. The judicial branch decides the enforcement of laws, but the legislative branch creates the laws.
All powers, emergency or otherwise, should have a check and balance system. An emergency is, for an aspiring dictator, a best-case scenario as it provides the perfect opportunity for political overreach. During a natural disaster, a war, or a public health crisis, an overreach of power would be allowed if those in charge can justify it as ‘for the greater good’ (or similar verbiage) to the people. Emergency powers should be kept to strict limitations even more than normal legislative, executive, or judicial powers.

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    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 17, 2022.


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