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No-Bid Novak

This page ran 9 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 28 September 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $2.4–3.3K of spend, which makes it the 8,730th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: State. Paid for by Cleveland for Indiana.

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 ↗

9

ads

$2.8K

reported spend, range $2.4–3.3K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$250

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
100%

Share of the 9 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Randy Novak$2.1K
  • Novak$749

Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.

Topics

Corruption & governance
100%
Infrastructure & energy
33%
Electoral process & turnout
11%

Spend by race: State 53%, Local 39%, No specific race 8.8%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Former LaPorte County Council President Randy Novak approved payments on multiple no-bid government contracts while accepting undisclosed real estate commissions from the same contractor, according to public records.

    28 September 2026 · No-Bid Novak · $600 – $699 · 25K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • In 2021, Randy Novak, then-President of the La Porte County Council, pushed through a no-bid county contract for his friend and electrical contractor Andy Skwiat. When county auditor Tim Stabosz informed Novak that such contracts are illegal, Novak ordered Stabosz removed. In exchange for the contract, Skwiat hired Novak to sell millions of dollars worth of his real estate. Over the next several years, Novak awarded six more of these contracts, pocketing six figures and costing La Porte County

    28 September 2026 · No-Bid Novak · $400 – $499 · 25K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • During the 2024 elections, Randy Novak pocketed about 40% of his campaign cash (directly and indirectly) from a county contractor who received several multimillion dollar no-bid contracts approved by Novak. Much of the indirect cash came from the elite world of pigeon racing, where our wealthy contractor has connections. Vote NO on Randy No-Bid Novak

    12 October 2026 · No-Bid Novak · $300 – $399 · 10K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Former LaPorte County Council President Randy Novak approved payments on multiple million dollar no-bid government contracts while accepting thousands in undisclosed real estate commissions from the same contractor, according to public records. Vote No on No-Bid Novak.

    7 October 2026 · No-Bid Novak · $300 – $399 · 15K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Novak is continuing to take cash from data center and utility lobbyists. His campaign finance report shows contributions from lobbying firms with data center clients, unions that build data centers, and utilities that serve data centers. In his Vote411 survey, he claims he’s for ‘local control’ of data centers, but that’s not what his donors want. Vote NO on No-Bid Novak

    26 October 2026 · No-Bid Novak · $200 – $299 · 20K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Novak is taking cash from data center and utility lobbyists. His campaign finance report shows contributions from lobbying firms with data center clients, unions that build data centers, and utilities that serve data centers. In his Vote411 survey, he claims he’s for ‘local control’ of data centers, but that’s not what his donors want.

    20 October 2026 · No-Bid Novak · $200 – $299 · 15K+ 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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