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Eddie Speir

U.S. House District 16

2026 Florida U.S. House District 16 — Republican Primary · August 18, 2026

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Overview

Eddie was raised by his mother and grandmother in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado.After completing his collegiate wrestling career, Eddie graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Computer Information Systems and immediately started his computer consulting firm in 1994.

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2026 Florida U.S. House District 16 — Republican Primary on August 18, 2026
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August 18, 2026

Republican Party

Representative in Congress

District 16

Ed Pope

Eddie Speir

Sydney Gruters

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5523 Title Row Drive · Bradenton, FL 34210

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Image# 202602059825919092 PAGE 1 / 1 H4FL16179 02/05/2026 Speir, Jason, Edward, , Bradenton 34210 Eddie Speir for Congress 5523 Title Row Drive 5523 Title Row Drive Bradenton FL 34210 FL 2026 FL 16 House REPUBLICAN PARTY 02/05/2026 14 : 20 Speir, Jason, Edward, ,

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A CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE

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Eddie was raised by his mother and grandmother in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado.After completing his collegiate wrestling career, Eddie graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Computer Information Systems and immediately started his computer consulting firm in 1994.

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Eddie was raised by his mother and grandmother in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado.After completing his collegiate wrestling career, Eddie graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in Computer Information Systems and immediately started his computer consulting firm in 1994.

Trustee, New College of Florida

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In January 2021, Eddie was appointed trustee at New College of Florida (NCF) by Governor Ron DeSantis. He recognized this opportunity as an inflection point foreducation and the country’s broader culture. Eddie immediately pushed to open trustee meetings with a prayer and the pledge of allegiance. These proposed changes caused a battle with the Chair of the Board and the school’s lawyer. The Chair was then removed, the lawyer removed, and the next meeting was opened with prayer and the pledge. This was followed quickly by Eddie’s bold public announcement of his intention to remove the college’s president. These were vital steps in the effort to eradicate the Woke ideologies that had captured New College years ago. Eddie’s vision was to bring athletics to the college, and he was instrumental in bringing that vision to reality. This vision is among the first steps to change the culture at NCF and across America in the battle against Woke Marxism and identity politics. Due in part to Eddie’s efforts, New College is experiencing record-breaking enrollment and cultural diversity through athletics. With the previously stagnant student life experience newly invigorated, higher student retention rates are sure to follow, helping to ensure that New College returns to the position as the gem of Florida’s State University System.

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In January 2021, Eddie was appointed trustee at New College of Florida (NCF) by Governor Ron DeSantis. He recognized this opportunity as an inflection point foreducation and the country’s broader culture. Eddie immediately pushed to open trustee meetings with a prayer and the pledge of allegiance. These proposed changes caused a battle with the Chair of the Board and the school’s lawyer. The Chair was then removed, the lawyer removed, and the next meeting was opened with prayer and the pledge. This was followed quickly by Eddie’s bold public announcement of his intention to remove the college’s president. These were vital steps in the effort to eradicate the Woke ideologies that had captured New College years ago. Eddie’s vision was to bring athletics to the college, and he was instrumental in bringing that vision to reality. This vision is among the first steps to change the culture at NCF and across America in the battle against Woke Marxism and identity politics. Due in part to Eddie’s efforts, New College is experiencing record-breaking enrollment and cultural diversity through athletics. With the previously stagnant student life experience newly invigorated, higher student retention rates are sure to follow, helping to ensure that New College returns to the position as the gem of Florida’s State University System.

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ECONOMIC REALITY

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Will Fight Reckless Spending in Congress to Reduce The National Debt and Inflation. Restrict H-1B Visas and Outsourcing to Increase American Wages.

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Will Fight Reckless Spending in Congress to Reduce The National Debt and Inflation. Restrict H-1B Visas and Outsourcing to Increase American Wages.

AMERICA FIRST

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I believe in American exceptionalism. America continues to lead the way for the rest of the world. Yet, our national sovereignty has come under attack. The entrenched establishment of career politicians have exposed our country to uncontrolled illegal immigration and foreign policies contrary to the well-being and prosperity of this nation. We must correct this course and put American priorities first and continue the trail-blazing path of freedom and prosperity.

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I believe in American exceptionalism. America continues to lead the way for the rest of the world. Yet, our national sovereignty has come under attack. The entrenched establishment of career politicians have exposed our country to uncontrolled illegal immigration and foreign policies contrary to the well-being and prosperity of this nation. We must correct this course and put American priorities first and continue the trail-blazing path of freedom and prosperity.

AMERICA FIRST

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“There comes a time when the country needs good people to stand up and fight against evil. That time is now. Our American system of freedom, individual rights, and of limited government is under assault. Globalists are waging a covert war against our communities, faith, and family values. The entrenched establishment of career politicians in Washington is happy to sell our freedoms to the highest bidder. Public trust is at an all-time low, and Americans have become disenfranchised by the blatant corruption. But it is not too late. We can reverse this course. We must speak the truth boldly and engage courageously. Then, we will ignite an awakening of freedom-loving patriots.”

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“There comes a time when the country needs good people to stand up and fight against evil. That time is now. Our American system of freedom, individual rights, and of limited government is under assault. Globalists are waging a covert war against our communities, faith, and family values. The entrenched establishment of career politicians in Washington is happy to sell our freedoms to the highest bidder. Public trust is at an all-time low, and Americans have become disenfranchised by the blatant corruption. But it is not too late. We can reverse this course. We must speak the truth boldly and engage courageously. Then, we will ignite an awakening of freedom-loving patriots.”

People-Centered Entrepreneurship

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Eddie used his entrepreneurial experience to support and promote business opportunities to improve people’s quality of life. For instance, in 2015, Eddie mentored the vision of SureMed, in Bradenton. By reimagining and refocusing on patient outcomes, SureMed has become instrumental in the fight against the opioid, fentanyl, and heroin crisis gripping the nation through proper patient screening and attention to mental health. Eddie also lent his leadership and experience to help produce the successful movie, “Ragamuffin,” a gripping biography of a musical prodigy who rises to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation.

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Eddie used his entrepreneurial experience to support and promote business opportunities to improve people’s quality of life. For instance, in 2015, Eddie mentored the vision of SureMed, in Bradenton. By reimagining and refocusing on patient outcomes, SureMed has become instrumental in the fight against the opioid, fentanyl, and heroin crisis gripping the nation through proper patient screening and attention to mental health. Eddie also lent his leadership and experience to help produce the successful movie, “Ragamuffin,” a gripping biography of a musical prodigy who rises to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation.

Bringing Conservative Values to Congress

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Eddie’s unique insights across multiple domains and tremendous energy will help bring a new level of transparency and accountability to the entrenched establishment. Government officials have forgotten who they report to. They need to hear the voices loud and clear of “We the People.”

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Eddie’s unique insights across multiple domains and tremendous energy will help bring a new level of transparency and accountability to the entrenched establishment. Government officials have forgotten who they report to. They need to hear the voices loud and clear of “We the People.”

Bringing Conservative Values to Congress

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“The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.”

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“The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.”

Bringing Conservative Values to Congress

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“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

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“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

Bringing Conservative Values to Congress

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No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for maketing promotional purposes. All of the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

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An Economic Plan That Actually Shrinks Washington

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For decades Washington has talked about cutting spending and shrinking government while doing the exact opposite. The debt grows. The bureaucracy grows. The bills get longer and less readable every single year. Meanwhile a handful of tech companies have built monopolies so complete that calling them “competitive markets” insults anyone who ever took an economics class.

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For decades Washington has talked about cutting spending and shrinking government while doing the exact opposite. The debt grows. The bureaucracy grows. The bills get longer and less readable every single year. Meanwhile a handful of tech companies have built monopolies so complete that calling them “competitive markets” insults anyone who ever took an economics class.

Stop the Omnibus. Ban It Entirely.

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That has to end. I support a hard ban on omnibus spending bills. One subject per bill.

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That has to end. I support a hard ban on omnibus spending bills. One subject per bill.

Break Up the New Bell Monopolies

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I support federal interoperability standards modeled on what regulators forced during the Bell breakup. If your platform reaches a dominant share of the market, whether that’s messaging or social media or anything else, you don’t get to wall off cooperation with rivals just to protect your position. Open the standards. Let competitors connect. Let the market decide who builds the best product instead of who builds the strongest walls.

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I support federal interoperability standards modeled on what regulators forced during the Bell breakup. If your platform reaches a dominant share of the market, whether that’s messaging or social media or anything else, you don’t get to wall off cooperation with rivals just to protect your position. Open the standards. Let competitors connect. Let the market decide who builds the best product instead of who builds the strongest walls.

Reform H1B Before It Hollows Out One More American Career

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This needs immediate reform on three fronts at once.

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This needs immediate reform on three fronts at once.

Why This All Fits Together

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A government that can’t control its own spending has no business pretending it can wisely regulate anything else. That’s why single subject spending bills come first. Transparency in spending builds the public trust you need to take on bigger fights, like breaking up monopolies that have gotten too comfortable hiding behind regulatory capture and campaign contributions.

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A government that can’t control its own spending has no business pretending it can wisely regulate anything else. That’s why single subject spending bills come first. Transparency in spending builds the public trust you need to take on bigger fights, like breaking up monopolies that have gotten too comfortable hiding behind regulatory capture and campaign contributions.

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Cut Out the Middleman: A Veteran-First Vision for VA Reform

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Cut Out the Middleman: A Veteran-First Vision for VA Reform

An Economic Plan That Actually Shrinks Washington

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I want to lay out a plan that fixes all three problems at once because they’re connected. A government that spends without restraint, regulates without competence, and ignores what its own immigration policy is doing to the labor market is a government that’s stopped working for the people who fund it.

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I want to lay out a plan that fixes all three problems at once because they’re connected. A government that spends without restraint, regulates without competence, and ignores what its own immigration policy is doing to the labor market is a government that’s stopped working for the people who fund it.

Stop the Omnibus. Ban It Entirely.

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Congress wants to fund defense, that’s a defense bill. Congress wants to fund agriculture, that’s its own agriculture bill. Every bill stands or falls on its own merits, gets its own floor debate, gets its own recorded vote. No more burying a wasteful pet project inside a bill that funds the troops. No more using a popular program as cover for spending nobody could defend on its own. And when a member of Congress comes home, they have to defend that vote to We the People.

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Congress wants to fund defense, that’s a defense bill. Congress wants to fund agriculture, that’s its own agriculture bill. Every bill stands or falls on its own merits, gets its own floor debate, gets its own recorded vote. No more burying a wasteful pet project inside a bill that funds the troops. No more using a popular program as cover for spending nobody could defend on its own. And when a member of Congress comes home, they have to defend that vote to We the People.

Break Up the New Bell Monopolies

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I also support breaking up companies that operate as both the marketplace and the dominant seller inside that marketplace at the same time. A platform that writes the rules of competition shouldn’t also get to compete on its own playing field. That conflict of interest is exactly what drove the antitrust laws of the early twentieth century, and it’s only gotten worse since.

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I also support breaking up companies that operate as both the marketplace and the dominant seller inside that marketplace at the same time. A platform that writes the rules of competition shouldn’t also get to compete on its own playing field. That conflict of interest is exactly what drove the antitrust laws of the early twentieth century, and it’s only gotten worse since.

Why This All Fits Together

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And a country that lets its own labor market get undercut by a visa program nobody’s enforcing will keep bleeding good jobs and good wages no matter how many other reforms get passed.

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And a country that lets its own labor market get undercut by a visa program nobody’s enforcing will keep bleeding good jobs and good wages no matter how many other reforms get passed.

Stop the Omnibus. Ban It Entirely.

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This one reform would do more to expose wasteful spending than every inspector general report combined, because it forces every dollar to justify itself in public, one bill at a time. The politicians who want to keep spending recklessly hate this idea, because it takes away their hiding place.

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This one reform would do more to expose wasteful spending than every inspector general report combined, because it forces every dollar to justify itself in public, one bill at a time. The politicians who want to keep spending recklessly hate this idea, because it takes away their hiding place.

Break Up the New Bell Monopolies

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Here’s the part most people miss about the Bell breakup. Nobody asked AT&T to be user friendly. Nobody passed a law demanding better customer service. Competition forced it on its own. The moment other companies could connect to the same network and fight for the same customers, every player had to get better or get replaced. Phones got cheaper. Long distance calling, once a luxury, became ordinary. Innovation that had been sitting on a shelf inside Bell Labs for years suddenly got rushed to market because somebody else might ship it first.

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Here’s the part most people miss about the Bell breakup. Nobody asked AT&T to be user friendly. Nobody passed a law demanding better customer service. Competition forced it on its own. The moment other companies could connect to the same network and fight for the same customers, every player had to get better or get replaced. Phones got cheaper. Long distance calling, once a luxury, became ordinary. Innovation that had been sitting on a shelf inside Bell Labs for years suddenly got rushed to market because somebody else might ship it first.

Why This All Fits Together

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Cut the waste. Open the markets. Protect the worker. That’s the plan that I intend to fight for in Congress.

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Cut the waste. Open the markets. Protect the worker. That’s the plan that I intend to fight for in Congress.

AMERICA FIRST

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Trustee, New College of Florida

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In January 2021, Eddie was appointed trustee at New College of Florida (NCF) by Governor Ron DeSantis. He recognized this opportunity as an inflection point foreducation and the country’s broader culture. Eddie immediately pushed to open trustee meetings with a prayer and the pledge of allegiance. These proposed changes caused a battle with the Chair of the Board and the school’s lawyer. The Chair was then removed, the lawyer removed, and the next meeting was opened with prayer and the pledge. This was followed quickly by Eddie’s bold public announcement of his intention to remove the college’s president. These were vital steps in the effort to eradicate the Woke ideologies that had captured New College years ago. Eddie’s vision was to bring athletics to the college, and he was instrumental in bringing that vision to reality. This vision is among the first steps to change the culture at NCF and across America in the battle against Woke Marxism and identity politics. Due in part to Eddie’s efforts, New College is experiencing record-breaking enrollment and cultural diversity through athletics. With the previously stagnant student life experience newly invigorated, higher student retention rates are sure to follow, helping to ensure that New College returns to the position as the gem of Florida’s State University System.

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In January 2021, Eddie was appointed trustee at New College of Florida (NCF) by Governor Ron DeSantis. He recognized this opportunity as an inflection point foreducation and the country’s broader culture. Eddie immediately pushed to open trustee meetings with a prayer and the pledge of allegiance. These proposed changes caused a battle with the Chair of the Board and the school’s lawyer. The Chair was then removed, the lawyer removed, and the next meeting was opened with prayer and the pledge. This was followed quickly by Eddie’s bold public announcement of his intention to remove the college’s president. These were vital steps in the effort to eradicate the Woke ideologies that had captured New College years ago. Eddie’s vision was to bring athletics to the college, and he was instrumental in bringing that vision to reality. This vision is among the first steps to change the culture at NCF and across America in the battle against Woke Marxism and identity politics. Due in part to Eddie’s efforts, New College is experiencing record-breaking enrollment and cultural diversity through athletics. With the previously stagnant student life experience newly invigorated, higher student retention rates are sure to follow, helping to ensure that New College returns to the position as the gem of Florida’s State University System.

An Economic Plan That Actually Shrinks Washington

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An Economic Plan That Actually Shrinks Washington

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Stop the Omnibus. Ban It Entirely.

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Stop the Omnibus. Ban It Entirely.

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Stop the Omnibus. Ban It Entirely.

Break Up the New Bell Monopolies

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That’s the textbook definition of an anticompetitive practice, and it’s happening to every American with a smartphone, every single day, right out in the open.

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That’s the textbook definition of an anticompetitive practice, and it’s happening to every American with a smartphone, every single day, right out in the open.

Reform H1B Before It Hollows Out One More American Career

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Reform H1B Before It Hollows Out One More American Career

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AMERICA FIRST

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The Fight Has Just Started!

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The Fight Has Just Started!

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FEC candidate totals January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.

Total receipts
$42,474.53
Total disbursements
$24,666.97
Cash on hand
$18,468.80
Committee debt
$125,202.05
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Candidate ID: H4FL16179

Name: SPEIR, JASON EDWARD

Office: House

State: FL

District: FL16

Coverage start: 2025-01-01

Coverage end: 2026-06-30

Total receipts: $42474.53

Total disbursements: $24666.97

Cash on hand: $18468.80

Debts owed by committee: $125202.05

Candidate contributions: $0.00

Loans made by candidate: $0.00

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