United States 2026 · Every advertiser
Supervisor Jim Desmond
This page ran 76 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 4 May 2026 and 29 September 2026. Meta reports $124.9–157.7K of spend, which makes it the 518th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race.
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 ↗
76
ads
$141.3K
reported spend, range $124.9–157.7K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 75 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- The County$12.5K
- The State of California$10.3K
- Sacramento$5.9K
- California$4.7K
- Board of Supervisors$3.7K
- My colleagues on the Board$3.7K
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Ballot measures 5.4%, No specific race 95%.
Spend by ad language: English 99%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Did your homeowners insurance double? Did they refuse to renew you? You are not alone, and nobody at the state will say what the plan is. Sign the petition! ✍️
7 September 2026 · Supervisor Jim Desmond · $15–20K · 500K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
A major El Niño could mean a wet winter in San Diego County. Free sandbags are available at fire stations ahead of major storms, and County crews are already clearing drains and culverts across North County. Here's everything you need to know before the rain starts.
27 August 2026 · Supervisor Jim Desmond · $15–20K · 800K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
The County spent your tax dollars hiring consultants to poll whether they could raise your taxes. It wasn't done in the open, and residents said no anyway. Sign the petition demanding every contract get reviewed in public.
27 August 2026 · Supervisor Jim Desmond · $10–15K · 450K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Stop the Golden Pacific Powerlink The State of California is planning a massive high voltage transmission line that would cut through Southern California on towers as tall as 200 feet, disrupting the communities and open land that make this region what it is. Local communities have no vote and no permit authority over any of it. The decision rests entirely with the state. Add your name and tell the state this alignment is unacceptable. Sign the petition: https://www.supervisorjimdesmond.com/s
25 August 2026 · Supervisor Jim Desmond · $8–9K · 300K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Car seats are expensive and kids outgrow them fast. My office wants to help. Free car seats Saturday, September 19 in San Marcos, 10am to 1pm, while supplies last.
5 September 2026 · Supervisor Jim Desmond · $7–8K · 250K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
San Diego County is becoming the state's dumping ground for sexually violent predators. Seven of them are already living here under conditional release. Now California wants to send another one, John Phillips, convicted of lewd and lascivious acts on a child and of sexual battery, into Borrego Springs. That would make three in one small town, on top of four in Jacumba Hot Springs and one transient nobody can locate on a given night. No other county in California is asked to absorb this. And th
26 August 2026 · Supervisor Jim Desmond · $4.5–5K · 400K+ 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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