Steven Ceracche
Steven Ceracche (Republican Party) ran for election to the Florida House of Representatives to represent District 76. He lost in the Republican primary on August 20, 2024.
Ceracche completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Steven Ceracche was born in New York. He earned a high school diploma from Ithaca High School and a bachelor's degree from the University at Albany, SUNY in 2007. His career experience includes working in agriculture.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Florida House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Florida House of Representatives District 76
Vanessa Oliver defeated Jim Blue in the general election for Florida House of Representatives District 76 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Vanessa Oliver (R)  | 70.5 | 70,510 |
 | Jim Blue (D) | 29.5 | 29,492 | |
| Total votes: 100,002 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Jim Blue advanced from the Democratic primary for Florida House of Representatives District 76.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 76
Vanessa Oliver defeated Steven Ceracche in the Republican primary for Florida House of Representatives District 76 on August 20, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Vanessa Oliver | 71.7 | 13,345 |
 | Steven Ceracche | 28.3 | 5,261 | |
| Total votes: 18,606 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Spencer Roach (R)
- John Strand (R)
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Ceracche in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Steven Ceracche completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ceracche's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Steven was the first member of his family to graduate from a 4 year college. He received his bachelor’s in science in Environmental Science with a concentration in Biology from University at Albany in 2007. Stevens’ career path led him to Southwest Florida in 2016 to start farming and working with other small local farms to improve distribution of food to families throughout the community. After Hurricane Ian caused catastrophic damage to his farm in Punta Gorda, the decision was made to not rebuild. This led Steven to his current career with Green Life Farms located in Babcock Ranch. As Food Safety Manager, he oversees food safety and quality control for the company’s leafy greens and butter lettuce products currently available at over 1300 Publix grocery Stores.
As a member of the Florida Agricultural community, Steven has a passion to help farmers survive during these tough times. Florida farmers are in trouble and Steven wants to represent them in the Florida House of Representatives.- Insurance Reform: Addressing the Florida insurance crisis requires a multifaceted approach, including legal reforms, risk reduction strategies, and consumer empowerment. By working collaboratively, policymakers, insurers, and homeowners can find sustainable solutions to stabilize the market and ease the burden on residents.
- Agriculture: I’m proposing a drastic overhaul of the Florida Agricultural system. We need to explore the possibility of mechanization and the use of AI to help improve the efficiency of our agricultural lands. There needs to be more investment in crop research and development and trialing of more specialty crops. The State and Federal Government need to subsidize and incentivize the current farms still in operation and promote the development of more advanced agricultural systems such as CEA’s (Controlled Environmental Agriculture) to improve the resiliency of the food system. Food security is important today more than ever as the threat to our Global food system could be disrupted by environmental catastrophes, political unrest, terrorism
- Clean Water: The Water Quality issues facing our community stem from many different causes. The problem starts a long way away from our community. The entire state needs to make some impactful changes to how we regulate and manage our natural environment. Our community is drastically impacted by poor water quality and red tide on our health and tourism. Here are some sustainable solutions to help improve our waters: Regenerative agricultural principles. Treatment of water in Lake Okeechobee before it is released. Incentivizing faster completion of current projects intended to send releases water south. Investment in rural municipal sewage infrastructure.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 9, 2024
