United States 2026 · Every advertiser
Lake County News Dispatch
This page ran 6 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 14 May 2026 and 23 October 2026. Meta reports $600 – $1.2K of spend, which makes it the 14,104th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ 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 ↗
6
ads
$897
reported spend, range $600 – $1.2K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 6 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Roman Buchberger$450
- Alderpersons Lynn Florian and Thomas Hayes$250
- Lynn Florian and Thomas Hayes$149
- Tina Durrant$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: State 5.5%, Local 67%, No specific race 28%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Roman Buchberger is a Republican candidate running for Lake County Sheriff. He is a self proclaimed “constitutional sheriff” candidate. The Constitutional Sheriff is a fringe movement which stems from denying that Donald J Trump lost the 2020 election and proclaims the January 6th 2021 attack on the US Capitol did not occur. It is necessary for our community to reject Buchberger’s far right extremism and tell him no this November 3rd. https://www.lakecountynewsdispatch.com/2026/10/05/roman-buchb
5 October 2026 · Lake County News Dispatch · $400 – $499 · 25K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
When Ann Taylor was mayor, her favorite towing company that backed her campaign got the lions share of the business. Now that Taylor is gone and business is divided fairly among the three companies, Alderpersons Lynn Florian and Thomas Hayes are working in effort to protect a political crony and send all tows to that one company.
14 May 2026 · Lake County News Dispatch · $200 – $299 · 20K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Tina Durrant is a candidate for Illinois State Representative who doesn’t appreciate the efforts of homeowners to have fun during Halloween. In a comment on a Facebook video of a particular family’s Halloween display, Durrant referred to the decorations as “crap.”
23 October 2026 · Lake County News Dispatch · $0 – $99 · 2K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
While Ann Taylor was mayor, her favorite tow company backed her campaign and got the lion's share of the business. Taylor is gone and now business is divided fairly among three companies, Alderpersons Lynn Florian and Thomas Hayes are working to protect that political crony and send all tows to that one company.
16 May 2026 · Lake County News Dispatch · $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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