United States 2026 · Every advertiser
Ed Ross for Troy City Council
This page ran 3 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 28 May 2026 and 31 July 2026. Meta reports $0 – $297 of spend, which makes it the 21,188th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: Local. Paid for by Elect Edward Ross.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗
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ads
$149
reported spend, range $0 – $297
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 3 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- a sitting Troy City Council member$50
- City Clerk$50
- The City of Troy$50
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Local 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
A sitting Troy City Council member is now publicly arguing that the EMS contract does not require what the contract says, in plain English, directly on the page in front of us. Section 2.14 states: “A qualified medical unit … shall arrive to the scene within 6:00 minutes of call dispatched for 90% of emergency incidents.” Not “should.” Not “aspire to.” Not “work toward.” Shall. It then calls that requirement a “standard.” STAR’s own accepted proposal calls it the “required 6-minute response
31 July 2026 · Ed Ross for Troy City Council · $0 – $99 · 1K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Let’s talk about how the City of Troy’s political activity policy happened and how it was used against me in short order. Under oath, the City Clerk was asked if she had any involvement in drafting the administrative memo regulating political activity by City personnel and resources. Her answer: “Yes.” Then she was asked what her involvement was. Her answer: “I researched it and wrote it.” The clerk writing HR policies for the city isn't something I had on my 2024 bingo card. This matters be
4 June 2026 · Ed Ross for Troy City Council · $0 – $99 · 6K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
🚨 THE CITY LOST. AGAIN. 🚨 The City of Troy tried to stop me from running for City Council. They changed the rules. They used those rules to remove me from the Troy Fire Department. They ignored the warnings. They spent taxpayer money defending it. They lost before the Administrative Law Judge. Then they doubled down. Instead of accepting responsibility, fixing the policy, and moving forward, the City appealed. They asked the Oakland County Circuit Court to reverse the ruling, dismiss my c
28 May 2026 · Ed Ross for Troy City Council · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.
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