He also spent $207,000, roughly half of which went to the Florida House Republican Campaign Committee. Last July, Redondo unanimously won a race<\/a> to lead his party in the chamber after the 2030 election.<\/p>\n Political committees accounted for the largest share of contributions he received last quarter \u2014 $169,000, or more than a third of all funds raised.<\/p>\n That included $20,000 from a political committee previously chaired<\/a> by Florida GOP Executive Director Bill Helmich called Citizens for Principled Leadership<\/a>; $15,000 from The Southern Group<\/a>, Protecting Florida\u2019s Homeowners<\/a> and Florida Justice PAC<\/a>, the latter of which represents the interests of trial and personal injury lawyers; and $10,000 apiece from Florida Partners<\/a>, Florida Farmers<\/a>, Committee for a Greater Miami<\/a>, IMPACT<\/a>, Associated Industries of Florida<\/a> and Excellent Public Schools PAC<\/a>, the latter of which backs charter school and school-choice initiatives with funding from billionaires Ken Griffin and Reed Hastings, among others.<\/p>\n Redondo also received $40,000 from tobacco giant Reynolds<\/a>, $35,000 from Slide Insurance, which assumed nearly 456,000 policies<\/a> state-run Citizens dropped in 2025, and $12,500 from Luckyland, a casino chain whose Virtual Gaming Worlds parent company is headquartered in Australia.<\/p>\n From the health care sector, Tennessee-based Recovery Solutions gave $10,000; the Florida Surgical Alliance contributed $7,500; Tenet Health and Aqua Dermatology Management gave $5,000; and AbbVie and Hims Inc. each chipped in $2,500.<\/p>\n Duke Energy donated $11,000. West Coast University, American Traffic Solutions, for-profit prison company The GEO Group and gun manufacturer SIG Sauer each gave $10,000.<\/p>\n Traffic enforcement company Blue Line Solutions kicked in $6,500.<\/p>\n Billionaire Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross gave $10,000 through two of his real estate development companies.<\/p>\n Other real estate businesses \u2014 including PHR Investments, Southern Oak Management and Fernwood Management \u2014 gave $5,000 each.<\/p>\n Aside from the Florida GOP contribution, Redondo gave $1,000 to the re-election campaigns of state Rep. Randy Maggard of Dade City and Miami-Dade County Commission Chair Anthony Rodriguez, and to Miami-Dade Commissioner Vicki Lopez, who raised nearly $589,000 last quarter to keep the seat she was appointed<\/a> to in November.<\/p>\n Lopez vacated her seat representing House District 113 to take the County Commission post. Nearly five months later, Gov. Ron DeSantis still hasn\u2019t called<\/a> a Special Election to replace her there.<\/p>\n Redondo also paid nearly $75,000 to Tallahassee-based Capital Resources LLC for various consulting services and almost $15,000 to Coral Gables-based Fiore CPA for accounting services.<\/p>\n The rest of his spending covered staff costs, subscription fees, legal services, bank fees and donation-processing fees.<\/p>\n He entered April with more than $1.3 million on hand.<\/p>\n Redondo is no longer running unopposed, Division of Elections records show, though it remains to be seen how formidable his challenger is \u2014 or if he\u2019ll stay in the race.<\/p>\n Marco Insua, who re-registered from independent to Republican in 2022, filed to run in HD 118 last month. Despite filing March 10, he had not yet filed a campaign finance report for Q1 by the state\u2019s Friday deadline.<\/p>\n Redondo won his HD 118 seat in a 2023 Special Election with close to 52% of the vote<\/a>. He won a full, two-year term<\/a> the following year by a 36.6-percentage-point margin.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PP-728x90-1.jpg\")
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