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The Local Government Accountability
This page ran 24 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 21 July 2026 and 18 August 2026. Meta reports $15.8–21K of spend, which makes it the 2,778th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Group or campaign. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ side. Race: Local. Paid for by Local Government Accountability.
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 ↗
24
ads
$18.4K
reported spend, range $15.8–21K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$400
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 23 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Joe Neunder$8.3K
- Mark Smith$3.6K
- Neunder and Smith supporters$1.7K
- the commissioners$1.2K
- Neunder$998
- Sarasota County government$950
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 21%, Local 52%, No specific race 27%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
The Maximum Allowed by Law: Joe Neunder's Check to Hillary Clinton - Neunder For Hillary He campaigns as a MAGA fiscal conservative. Federal election records show he wrote Hillary Clinton's campaign the largest check the law allowed. Then the county budget grew by over a billion dollars on his watch. The documents are all public. Here they are. https://sarasotacountyfacts.org/news/neunder-donates-to-hillary
8 August 2026 · The Local Government Accountability · $3–3.5K · 125K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
The $876 Million Man-Joe Neunder ran as a fiscal conservative with no ties to developers. We read every budget, every vote, and every campaign check. Here is what the public record actually says. https://sarasotacountyfacts.org/news/the-876-million-man
22 July 2026 · The Local Government Accountability · $2–2.5K · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
CAUTION: We trigger people. Some of you have noticed a pattern. We post the county’s own audited numbers. Spending and debt. Every budget vote. Public record. And certain Neunder and Smith supporters respond… not by checking the numbers, but by attacking the people who posted them. That’s not an argument. That’s cognitive dissonance in its purest form. When the facts don’t match the preferred story, the mind has two options: update the story, or shoot the messenger. A lot of people are choosing
17 August 2026 · The Local Government Accountability · $1.5–2K · 50K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Mark Smith’s voting record deserves a closer look. Review the facts and see how his votes have affected Sarasota County spending and debt over the past 3.5 years. Read the information, review the sources, and make your own decision: https://sarasotacountyfacts.org/why-mark-has-gotta-go Sarasota County voters deserve the facts.
8 August 2026 · The Local Government Accountability · $1.5–2K · 80K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Every month you feel it. The rent check that got heavier. The tax bill that grew after they told you the rate was “cut.” The grocery run that costs what a car payment used to. You didn't vote for any of it. You're just the one paying for it.
24 July 2026 · The Local Government Accountability · $1.5–2K · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Citizens of Sarasota: They called us "dark money." They attacked the messenger. They held a press conference. What they did NOT do — is dispute a single number. 866 yes votes. 713 yes votes. A $2.52 billion budget. Tens of thousands of pages of YOUR public record — read, documented, and published for free. The people who run this county — nurses, deputies, teachers, road crews — can no longer afford to live in it. And the commissioners who approved every dollar want you to look anywhere but at t
15 August 2026 · The Local Government Accountability · $1–1.5K · 45K+ 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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