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Your bills keep climbing
Rates, fees and assessments go up every year — and nobody at City Hall can explain what you got for it.
Election Day - November 3rd, 2026
It's your city.Take it back.
Lisa Cohen-Adkinson, Candidate for Cape Coral Mayor
Lisa Cohen-Adkinson has spent 15 years at the podium making sure residents were heard — and she's saved Cape Coral taxpayers $87 million doing it. Now she's running for Mayor, and she needs you with her.
36
Years living, working and raising a family here
$87M
Saved for taxpayers on the Public Safety Building
15+
Years standing at the podium for residents
Sound familiar?
You're paying more and getting less
You didn't move here to subsidize somebody else's project. Here's what residents keep telling us — and what has to change.
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Your voice gets three minutes
You take a night off, drive downtown, speak at the podium — and the vote was decided before you arrived.
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Your city is being spent
$814 million in debt taken on in your name, for projects you never asked for and can't opt out of.
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Your safety is the bargaining chip
Cape Coral is one of Florida's safest large cities. That should never be traded for a new line item.
The Plan
Three steps to a city that answers to you
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Open the books
Plain-language budgets and a public explanation of every fee before it hits your bill.
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Stop the debt spiral
Public forums and a resident vote before the city takes on major new debt. No exceptions.
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Put residents first
Every decision measured by one question: does this make life better for the people who live here?
Do nothing, and the debt, the fees and the ribbon-cuttings keep coming. Sign up, and Cape Coral gets a Mayor who works for the people who live here.
She's been in your seat at City Hall
Lisa knows what it feels like to be talked past by your own government, because she's been the resident at the microphone for 15 years. She came to Cape Coral as a child and never left — built her career here, married here, raised her sons here.
She also knows how to win. On the Public Safety Building, she helped turn a $110 million ask into a $23 million build. That's the experience she's bringing to the Mayor's office — for you.
- ★36-year Cape Coral resident (since 1990)
- ★Broker-Owner, Valor Real Estate Services, Inc. — 26 years
- ★Honorary Marine (2015) — Iwo Jima Monument Restoration
- ★Master of Ceremony, 250th Marine Corps Birthday Ball
- ★First civilian speaker, 80th Anniversary of the Flag Raising on Mount Suribachi (Feb. 2025)
- ★Public Safety Building Committee — $87M in taxpayer savings
- ★15+ years of documented civic advocacy at Cape Coral City Council
What's at Stake
This is what four more years looks like
Not talking points — documented decisions already on your tab. Every one of them happened while residents were saying no.
Government Overreach
Yacht Club Demolition
$25,000 in reported damage. Demolition verdict anyway. Now a $300 million rebuild with no confirmed funding.
Fiscal Accountability
Jaycee Park Renovation
$18M spent. Shade trees gone. Splash pad broke within days. Food court empty. Ribbon-cutting anyway.
CRA Debt Abuse
Bimini Basin East
$45 million of taxpayer-backed debt — on city-owned land labeled 'blight' — that leadership knew couldn't be recovered.
"They gave us $110 million on the Public Safety Building and we did the job for $23 million. That is what responsible stewardship of public money looks like."
Put your money where your vote is
Every dollar buys a yard sign, a door knocked, a neighbor reached. That's how a resident-funded campaign beats a developer-funded one.
Step One
Sign up. It takes 30 seconds.
One form gets you campaign updates, event texts near you, and a way to volunteer if you want to do more. That's the whole ask.