By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n
The state doled out $25,000 to a handful of statewide candidates on Friday, bringing the four-week total for the public campaign finance program to just under $3 million.<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, a leader in the 11-person Republican gubernatorial primary field, picked up more than $13,000 in the fourth round of voter-approved public campaign financing. He has now received just over $800,000 from the public pool.<\/p>\n
Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, the only other gubernatorial candidate receiving money on Friday collected more than $9,200, bringing his four-week total to about $168,200.<\/p>\n
The program matches contributions of $250 or less from individuals residing in Florida to the campaign accounts of candidates running for governor, state attorney, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.<\/p>\n
A candidate for one of the statewide offices must apply for the funding. To qualify for the money, candidates must raise at least $100,000 in campaign contributions if seeking a Cabinet office or $150,000 if running for governor.<\/p>\n
Former U.S. Rep. David Jolly, a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, didn\u2019t receive any money on Friday. However, he continues to be the top beneficiary of the public campaign finance program this year at $1.6 million.<\/p>\n
Attorney General James Uthmeier drew nearly $1,400 from the program last week and has now received almost $147,000. His Democratic challenger Jose Javier Rodriguez picked up $828 from the state last week and has now received a little more than $262,000.<\/p>\n
In the 2022 election cycle, which includes both the primary and general election periods, the program distributed $13 million, of which more than half went to Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 re-election effort.<\/p>\n
Voters approved the program in 1998 and the Legislature unsuccessfully asked voters to end the program in 2010 and 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida The state doled out $25,000 to a handful of statewide candidates on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-369379","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\/369379","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=369379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}