But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Andrew Parrott
Libertarian · U.S. House, Florida District 6
✓Opposes
How this mark works
We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Reviewed by hand after the two reviewers read it differently: Asked whether he backs ending military aid, he named Israel, called himself anti-war and anti-debt, and said he would rather Israel pay Lockheed Martin directly than receive U.S. military money, which reads as ending U.S. military funding to Israel. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
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His one detailed statement on the question came during that first campaign, in an interview that AskFlagler, a Flagler County news site, published on February 25, 2025. Noting that he had recently shared a Ron Paul quote calling for no foreign aid, the interviewer asked whether he backed ending both economic and military aid. He answered on military aid. Pointing to “the current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel”, he said the money goes from Congress to Lockheed Martin and then to the government of Israel and to Ukraine. After a remark from the interviewer, he went on: “So now these dollars, if they’re being used to fight wars…I’m very much anti-war and also anti-debt. If we allow Israel to go directly into debt with Lockheed Martin, I’d be much happier with things going that way. But as it goes with them taking out loans that make them beholden to us later on, that’s one of the things that’s really kind of screwed the world up at this point.” He closed by saying it is not the best idea for the United States to go abroad searching for monsters to destroy, and that with the national debt where it is, the country should be focused on its troubles at home. He did not address economic aid, and the interview does not ask how he would vote on any aid bill.
Nothing located from his 2026 campaign returns to the subject. In the questionnaire News4JAX published on July 31, 2026, he named the economy, healthcare affordability and immigration as the three issues in the race, and said he would like to be remembered as a champion of freedom and liberty. His campaign site carries a line from P.J. O’Rourke and contact details, and he has not filled in Ballotpedia's 2026 candidate survey. Nothing located from him, at any date, addresses U.S. aid to Palestinians, how he describes the war in Gaza, or pro-Israel lobbying. His campaign's Facebook and X accounts could not be read here; their addresses are on his research page.
In their words
“Well, when it comes to military aid, if we look at the current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel…the pathway of the money goes from Congress to Lockheed Martin to Israel, Ukraine”
“So now these dollars, if they’re being used to fight wars…I’m very much anti-war and also anti-debt. If we allow Israel to go directly into debt with Lockheed Martin, I’d be much happier with things going that way. But as it goes with them taking out loans that make them beholden to us later on, that’s one of the things that’s really kind of screwed the world up at this point.”
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
Our research for this card began with a search run on 2026-09-07, and every page below was opened and read on 2026-09-25. The AskFlagler interview was read in full, along with his iVoterGuide questionnaire, his News4JAX questionnaire, his Ballotpedia page, both pages of his campaign site, the Libertarian Party of Florida's page for him, his BallotReady profile and the Florida Division of Elections candidate records for this race. He has held no office, so there are no recorded votes on this record, and no tracked funding. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Nothing located falls in the reaction window or earlier.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
[Position, 2025-02-25] AskFlagler's interview with him, by Chris Gollon, published during the April 2025 special election for this seat. The question: “You recently retweeted a quote from Ron Paul advocating for no foreign aid. Do you believe in this step being taken for both economic and military aid?” His answer opens: “Well, when it comes to military aid, if we look at the current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel…the pathway of the money goes from Congress to Lockheed Martin to Israel, Ukraine, or…I’m sure we have some something going on in Democratic Republic of Congo as well, with all of the issues they’re having with Rwanda, but that’s a different story.” After a remark from the interviewer about aid to the Congo, he continues: “There we go. So now these dollars, if they’re being used to fight wars…I’m very much anti-war and also anti-debt. If we allow Israel to go directly into debt with Lockheed Martin, I’d be much happier with things going that way. But as it goes with them taking out loans that make them beholden to us later on, that’s one of the things that’s really kind of screwed the world up at this point.” He does not address economic aid, and does not say how he would vote on any aid bill.
[Position, 2025-02-25] The same answer goes on: “So it’s not the best idea for us to go abroad searching for monsters which to destroy. I think it was Madison who said that we should be focused more, especially now with the $37 trillion in debt that we’re carrying, we should be focused more on our home life and the troubles that we have here now.” No country is named in that passage.
[Position; the questionnaire is for the April 1, 2025 special election and the page carries no date of its own; read 2026-09-25] His iVoterGuide questionnaire, under the heading National Security. Asked which of four foreign policy views most closely resembles his, ranging from intervening whenever freedom is threatened to staying out of foreign conflicts completely, he wrote: “John Quincy Adams said "America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy". After the global war on terror we are trillions in debt and the world is no better than it was a quarter century ago. Intervening in and arguably causing conflict abroad has not served us well.” The page shows his written answer and no choice among the four options. No country is named.
Nothing located from him about any specific bill, amendment or arms sale, or about the memorandum of understanding or the Foreign Military Financing program by name, at any date.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located, at any date. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, humanitarian aid for Gaza and the aid pipeline appear nowhere in the interview, in either questionnaire, on his campaign site or in anything else of his that was read.
Characterization of the conflict
Nothing located, at any date. He refers to “the current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel” in the February 2025 interview and says nothing further about the war in Gaza, Hamas, Palestinians or a Palestinian state.
[Position, 2025-02-25] In the same interview answer he connected the aid question to American foreign policy more widely: “It’s a lot of the allegiances that we try to make going back to Obama with the Arab Spring, with all the regime change that we were trying over there. It didn’t work out for the best all-around especially for the Arab Spring or the Arab people.” That is about American regime-change policy after 2011, not about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and it is recorded here for completeness.
Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position; the questionnaire is for the April 1, 2025 special election and the page carries no date of its own; read 2026-09-25] His iVoterGuide questionnaire. Asked “Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?”, he wrote: “Of course it important to have good relations with Israel. We need as many friends around the world as we can get.” The wording is his, including the missing verb.
Nothing located about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or any other lobby on this subject, at any date.
Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)
Nothing located from him, at any date.
What the campaign site and own pages say
[Undated; read 2026-09-25] His campaign site has two pages, a home page and a donation page. The home page carries his name, the line “The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.” attributed to P.J. O’Rourke, and contact details. The donation page carries placeholder text. Neither mentions any issue.
[Position, 2026-07-31] His answers to the News4JAX candidate questionnaire, which the station says it published exactly as submitted. He gives his occupation as welder and entrepreneur, his age as 54, and his political experience as his run for this seat in the April 2025 special election. His first issue: “The economy will be my primary focus. Fighting inflation, lowering the cost of living and increasing affordability. Banking reforms will be a big part of the legislation I will be proposing.” His second and third are healthcare affordability and immigration reform. He adds: “Not being beholden to the Republican or the Democrat parties I can do what is right for my neighbors.” and “I would like to be remembered as a champion of freedom and liberty.” Nothing in the answers names a country or any foreign policy question.
[Undated; read 2026-09-25] His Ballotpedia page says he has not completed its 2026 Candidate Connection survey and did not complete the 2025 one.
[Undated; read 2026-09-25] Ballotpedia: “Incumbent Randy Fine (R), Eric Yonce (D), Andrew Parrott (L), Michael Gist (No Party Affiliation) (Withdrew, still on ballot), and Alec Pavlik (No Party Affiliation) are running in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 6 on November 3, 2026.” Alec Pavlik is listed as a write-in candidate. The Libertarian primary scheduled for August 18, 2026 was cancelled, and he advanced without appearing on the ballot. In the special general election of April 1, 2025, Randy Fine won with 56.7 percent, Joshua Weil took 42.7 percent and he took 0.4 percent.
[Position, 2026-07-31] The News4JAX guide to the race describes the district as covering “southern St. Johns County, Putnam and Flagler counties and residents of eastern Marion and northern Volusia counties”.
Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them
His campaign's Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572314266104 , which Ballotpedia lists as his campaign's. It opened under the name Andrew Parrott for Congress and showed no posts to a reader who is not signed in.
His campaign's X account, https://x.com/GiveDCTheBird , which Ballotpedia lists as his campaign's. It does not display without signing in.
The image of the Ron Paul post he shared, which the AskFlagler interview displays beside the question. The image file no longer loads, so its wording is known only from the interviewer's description of it.
A VOTE411 page for this race, https://onyourballot.vote411.org/m/candidate-detail.do?id=70100399 , returned “File Not Found”.
Not on the card, and why
The claim that he chose the option “The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely” on his iVoterGuide questionnaire: the page shows only his written answer, and no choice among the four options. His written answer is above.
His remark about regime change and the Arab Spring: it is about American policy in the Middle East after 2011, not about what the United States sends to the government of Israel. It is recorded above.
His remarks about Randy Fine in the same interview, and his answers there on federal job cuts, hiring programs, abortion, health insurance, veterans' care, spending bills and pandemics: another candidate, or out of scope.
His iVoterGuide answers on abortion, taxes, religious liberty, healthcare, China, military recruitment, immigration, education, marriage, elections, energy and the courts, and his News4JAX answers on the economy, healthcare and immigration: out of scope. They are listed so the absence is checkable.
Randy Fine's, Eric Yonce's and Michael Gist's records: they belong on their own cards.
Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)
https://askflagler.com/an-interview-with-congressional-candidate-andrew-parrott/ (opened; 2026-09-25; published 2025-02-25)
https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/87355/race/22893/election/1275 (opened; 2026-09-25; the questionnaire is for the April 1, 2025 special election and carries no date)
https://www.news4jax.com/voters-guide/2026/07/31/2026-voters-guide-floridas-6th-congressional-district/ (opened; 2026-09-25; published 2026-07-31, updated 2026-08-25)
https://www.andrewparrottforcongress.com/ and https://www.andrewparrottforcongress.com/donate (opened; 2026-09-25)
https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/candidates/CanList.asp?elecid=20261103-GEN and https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/candidates/CanDetail.asp?account=89954 (opened; 2026-09-25)
https://www.lpf.org/21426 and https://www.ballotready.org/people/andrew-parrott (opened; 2026-09-25; no statements)
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572314266104 (opened as a page title only, no posts visible; 2026-09-25)
https://x.com/GiveDCTheBird (could not open; 2026-09-25)
https://onyourballot.vote411.org/m/candidate-detail.do?id=70100399 (could not open, “File Not Found”; 2026-09-25)
This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-07 and 2026-09-25, not a claim that no other statement exists.
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