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Jen for Sarasota

This page ran 78 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 16 July 2026 and 24 October 2026. Meta reports $2.2–9.9K of spend, which makes it the 5,823rd largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: Local.

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 ↗

78

ads

$6.1K

reported spend, range $2.2–9.9K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Promotional
100%

Share of the 78 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Topics

Infrastructure & energy
77%
Corruption & governance
62%
Economy & cost of living
46%
Candidate profile
15%

Spend by race: State 9.8%, Local 90%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

  • Sarasota is one of the most desirable cities in Florida and that's not going to change. Growth is coming either way. The real question is whether we grow with a plan and a voice, or without one. Jen Ahearn-Koch believes the people who live here should help shape what comes next. That means fewer administrative-only approvals, and more real opportunities for residents to be heard before decisions are final. Not to stop growth, to make it better. Because when citizens and developers actually work

    20 July 2026 · Jen for Sarasota · $400 – $499 · 30K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Sarasota has become unaffordable and developers are continuing to price people out with $2,400 a month “attainable housing”. Jen Ahearn-Koch raised concerns about this in 2023 and has since continued to support real affordability and push back when city programs fall short. The City should leverage Sarasota’s desirability to secure truly affordable housing. Jen will continue to fight for this, because we deserve to not be priced out of our homes and communities by greedy developers. She is a

    23 September 2026 · Jen for Sarasota · $200 – $299 · 15K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Every new development changes our neighborhoods and our City. More cars and congestion cause a strain on the infrastructure - water, wastewater, solid waste, roads, safety, and more. . Jen Ahearn-Koch has consistently called for robust traffic impact analysis before projects are approved. Jen is working to require development to pay their fair share of impact on our infrastructure and public realm. This is not the responsibility of the current residents. It is all about accountability. Vote

    19 October 2026 · Jen for Sarasota · $200 – $299 · 60K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • When the new extended parking enforcement went into effect, downtown, St Armands Circle, and Southside businesses came forward and shared how this was negatively affecting their business. Jen Ahearn-Koch heard them loud and clear, and pushed to re-open the conversation at the next City Commission meeting. Because of this, the new parking enforcement has been suspended, and workshops were added to the schedule to listen to your concerns, suggestions, experiences, and to involve you in getting

    19 October 2026 · Jen for Sarasota · $100 – $199 · 40K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Jen Ahearn-Koch didn't get into because she wanted a title. She got in because a development threatened her neighborhood and she had to get involved. She organized, she learned, and she advocated. That experience taught her how the system really works: who gets heard, who gets overlooked, and how easily residents get left out of decisions that shape for generations. So she kept showing up for her neighbors, for neighborhoods across the city, and since 2017, at the commission table, fighting for

    3 August 2026 · Jen for Sarasota · $0 – $99 · 1K+ 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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Jen for Sarasota: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima