Meet Mike
Mike Davey is a parent, husband, public servant, and problem solver with a record of putting people ahead of politics.
The oldest of three children raised by first-generation American parents, Mike learned the values of hard work and standing up for others. His mother taught him to value the impact of strong women leaders and to advocate for equal rights, including marching for the ERA as a child in the 70s.
Mike was an altar boy and played baseball. He got his first job at 11 years old and bagged groceries through high school. As a teenager, while Mike’s dad traveled often for his job, his mom went to law school and became an attorney in the early 80s.
During college, Mike found an opportunity to pursue his passion for the ocean, working as a diver and cleaning boats. He traveled throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America before going back to college. Mike worked his way up at a public policy firm while taking night classes at Harvard and then earning his law degree from Fordham University in New York City.
Mike wanted to do employment law, working with people and small businesses to ensure rights were valued. Following the experience of 9/11 in New York City, Mike left the firm he was with to move to South Florida and start his own firm.
Mike settled in Key Biscayne and quickly became involved in local government when he spoke up to make his street safer for parents and children going to the elementary school at the end of his street. When local officials refused to take action, he ran for city government and ultimately got the most votes in 2006, beginning a tenure as a councilman and mayor in which he kept taxes down while building new schools and strengthening sustainability efforts to combat climate change.
While coaching youth baseball, Mike met his now wife, Maria, who had fled Peru during the height of the Shining Path’s violent terrorist attacks. He became a stepdad to her son and they soon had a daughter together.
Having been raised in a fiscally moderate and socially progressive family, Mike had not been a strong partisan. The 2008 election became a catalyst for Mike’s political views as he strongly supported Obama and then went on to support Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.
After Trump’s election, his then 7-year-old daughter asked him why Trump hates her because she’s not white. Mike then formalized his engagement in the Democratic Party because of the party’s inclusiveness and focus on people, not special interests.
Now, Mike is stepping up to run for Congress because we are facing serious problems and we need serious people to work to resolve them. Washington is the most broken it’s ever been because of extreme partisanship from Republicans like Maria Elvira Salazar.