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U.S. House District 17
2026 Florida U.S. House District 17 — General Election · November 3, 2026
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Last reviewed September 18, 2026Official Florida records identify Michael J. Quirk as a qualified No Party Affiliation filing for U.S. House District 17. Final ballot placement has not yet been established from a current official ballot artifact.
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2026 General Election
United States Representative
District 17
Michael J. Quirk
No Party Affiliation
5663 Mauna Loa Blvd, Unit #204
Sarasota, FL 34240
Status: Qualified
Date Filed: 05/04/2026
Date Qualified: 06/11/2026
Method: Paid Qualifying Fee
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5663 Mauna Loa Blvd, Unit #204 · Sarasota, FL 34240
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5663 Mauna Loa Blvd, Unit #204
Sarasota, FL 34240
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I’ve spent thirty years inside the systems that run banks, airlines, and the modern economy, the last decade in cybersecurity and privacy. Congress is regulating a digital world it doesn’t understand. I understand it, and I’ll put that to work for you.
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I’ve spent thirty years inside the systems that run banks, airlines, and the modern economy, the last decade in cybersecurity and privacy. Congress is regulating a digital world it doesn’t understand. I understand it, and I’ll put that to work for you.
I was born in Peoria, Illinois, to unmarried teenage parents who placed me for adoption through Catholic Charities, and into the arms of the family that gave me my name and my life. I grew up a Quirk in the working-class south suburbs of Chicago: my father a United States Marine during the Kennedy years who went on to a career in federal labor relations, my mother a substitute teacher who built a career as a computer programmer and became a leader in her field. In our family, we still joke that technology is "the family business."
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I was born in Peoria, Illinois, to unmarried teenage parents who placed me for adoption through Catholic Charities, and into the arms of the family that gave me my name and my life. I grew up a Quirk in the working-class south suburbs of Chicago: my father a United States Marine during the Kennedy years who went on to a career in federal labor relations, my mother a substitute teacher who built a career as a computer programmer and became a leader in her field. In our family, we still joke that technology is "the family business."
After my first friend passed, high school was pretty much over for me. My parents took me out of school and straight into community college to earn my GED. I went to work apprenticing with my uncle at the Indiana steel mills, carrying a union card years before I was technically old enough to have one. I earned my GED shortly after my classmates graduated. Then I went to work in technology, and I never stopped.
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After my first friend passed, high school was pretty much over for me. My parents took me out of school and straight into community college to earn my GED. I went to work apprenticing with my uncle at the Indiana steel mills, carrying a union card years before I was technically old enough to have one. I earned my GED shortly after my classmates graduated. Then I went to work in technology, and I never stopped.
When my son was barely a year old, I was given temporary custody. After a long court process, I was granted sole custody, at age 24. I began life placed for adoption by parents too young to raise me; at nearly the same age, I chose to raise my son myself, no matter what it cost. I raised him alone from toddler to high school graduation: in San Francisco at the height of the dot-com boom, then back home in Chicago so he could grow up surrounded by family. The young man I raised chose to serve his country in U.S. Army Military Intelligence, and today he's earning his college degree on the GI Bill. My father, my uncles, and now my son have worn the uniform. I was raised in the Catholic faith, saw my son baptized and through catechism at the very parish where I grew up, a faith I carry with me today.
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When my son was barely a year old, I was given temporary custody. After a long court process, I was granted sole custody, at age 24. I began life placed for adoption by parents too young to raise me; at nearly the same age, I chose to raise my son myself, no matter what it cost. I raised him alone from toddler to high school graduation: in San Francisco at the height of the dot-com boom, then back home in Chicago so he could grow up surrounded by family. The young man I raised chose to serve his country in U.S. Army Military Intelligence, and today he's earning his college degree on the GI Bill. My father, my uncles, and now my son have worn the uniform. I was raised in the Catholic faith, saw my son baptized and through catechism at the very parish where I grew up, a faith I carry with me today.
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Lower household costs while protecting Social Security and Medicare benefits people have earned.
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Groceries, prescriptions, insurance premiums, and no cuts to the Social Security and Medicare you earned.
Increase federal investment in evacuation infrastructure, coastal restoration, and red-tide research.
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Fund the way out: federal dollars for evacuation corridors like I-75 and for hardening the local bridges over the Myakka and Peace rivers that this district depends on
Send the water south: full funding for Everglades restoration so Lake Okeechobee discharges stop poisoning the Caloosahatchee and our coast
Create stronger federal privacy, surveillance, and AI safeguards.
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Close the data-broker loophole: if the government can’t seize your data without a warrant, it shouldn’t be able to buy it either
Change congressional and election rules to reduce conflicts of interest and increase accountability.
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Sunset emergency powers: emergencies lapse automatically after about 30 days unless Congress votes to continue them
Require Congress to debate, authorize, and fund wars rather than allowing open-ended military commitments.
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Objectives, exit conditions, and sunset dates in every military funding measure; no more open-ended checks
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