United States 2026 · Every advertiser
Gilbert "BJ" Bowling
This page ran 1 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 1 May 2026 and 1 May 2026. Meta reports $100 – $199 of spend, which makes it the 20,848th 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 Friends of Gilbert Bowling.
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
$150
reported spend, range $100 – $199
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$150
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 1 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
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.
As a father, retired police commander of 22 years, and your County Commissioner, school safety is personal to me. This week alone, two guns were recovered at St. Charles High School on back-to-back days including reports of a loaded ghost gun and another firearm found in a student locker. These are not political talking points. These are real threats facing our children, teachers, and families. Experience matters in moments like this. My background in law enforcement and public service gives me
1 May 2026 · Gilbert "BJ" Bowling · $100 – $199 · 6K+ impressions · Promotional · 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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