By The News Service of Florida <\/p>\n
Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia pulled in more than $1.2 million in the first quarter as he seeks a full term in the Cabinet office to which he was appointed last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n
Ingoglia raised $271,063 through his personal campaign account and the political committee Friends of Blaise Ingoglia picked up $954,181, according to first-quarter numbers posted on the Division of Elections website.<\/p>\n
As of March 31, Ingoglia had just over $5.1 million on hand as the contest awaits the formal qualifying period from noon, June 8 to noon, June 12.<\/p>\n
Ingoglia, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, is one of four Republicans with active campaign accounts for the statewide office, although two \u2014 Rep. Kevin Steele, R-Dade City, and Sen. Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota \u2014 aren\u2019t considered to be running.<\/p>\n
In February, Steele announced he would drop his CFO campaign and seek re-election to his Pasco County House district. He has yet to open the House District 55 account, which has attracted two Republican candidates.<\/p>\n
Gruters became chairman of the Republican National Committee last August and is no longer actively campaigning for the CFO post. The quarterly report he filed listed no contributions and $48,500 in spending, including $10,000 on advertising and $20,000 for consulting.<\/p>\n
The fourth Republican, Frank Collige, the owner of Property Pros Consulting from Glen St. Mary, reported raising $350 during the quarter. He has now raised $14,035.<\/p>\n
John Daniel Smith of Winter Park, running without a party affiliation, hasn\u2019t submitted a finance report since opening a campaign account on Oct. 15.<\/p>\n
No Democrat has filed for the office that opened last spring when former CFO Jimmy Patronis successfully ran for a congressional seat.<\/p>\n
DeSantis appointed Ingoglia, a former legislator, to the Cabinet office in July, where he has helped lead DeSantis\u2019 push to lower property taxes by highlighting local government spending.<\/p>\n
For the quarter, Ingoglia\u2019s personal account included $67,637 from real estate, construction and development interests, $17,500 from the insurance field and $31,000 from political committees. The Republican Party of Florida also provided $166,455 through in-kind assistance for staffing and consulting.\\<\/p>\n
The Friends of Blaise Ingoglia political committee drew in $313,000 from various political organizations, $145,910 from construction and real estate interests, and $72,000 from the insurance field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia pulled in more than $1.2 million in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-230192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}