Less than four months after resigning amid a fake Facebook controversy that attempted to pit conservatives against black voters, former Jeremy Matlow campaign manager Kristellys \u201cKris\u201d Estanga is receiving substantial payments from a political committee supporting Matlow\u2019s mayoral campaign.<\/p>\n
The latest campaign finance report for Friends of Jeremy Matlow shows a $40,000 payment to The Win Number, a political consulting firm Estanga established in late August 2026.<\/p>\n
The payment follows a $200,000 contribution to the PAC from the California-based Green Advocacy Project, an organization supporting progressive candidates and environmental policies.<\/p>\n
The financial transactions represent the latest chapter in a political controversy that began in July and appeared to end with Estanga\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n
On July 23, Tallahassee Reports revealed that a Facebook page called \u201cTallahassee Conservatives\u201d had been used to distribute damaging information about Talethia Edwards, a Black Democrat running for City Commission Seat 3 against Matlow-backed candidate PJ Perez.<\/p>\n
Estanga subsequently acknowledged responsibility for the deceptive Facebook operation, said she acted alone and resigned from the Matlow and Perez campaigns. Matlow denied involvement and accepted her resignation.<\/p>\n
However, the separation was short-lived.<\/p>\n
On August 18, Estanga appeared at Matlow\u2019s election-night gathering alongside Ryan Ray, Matlow\u2019s City Commission aide and chairman of the Leon County Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
By late August, Estanga had established The Win Number.<\/p>\n
On September 14, Matlow\u2019s campaign paid her new company $4,000 for field consulting, according to a September 30 Tallahassee Democrat report.<\/p>\n
Matlow defended the arrangement, describing Estanga as a talented organizer and data analyst whose company was coordinating voter canvassing.<\/p>\n
Following the renewed scrutiny, Estanga publicly declared, \u201cI\u2019m here to stay baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, the reported $40,000 PAC expenditure places Estanga\u2019s consulting firm in an even more substantial financial relationship with Matlow\u2019s political operation.<\/p>\n
The chronology is clear: Estanga resigned following a campaign controversy, returned to Matlow\u2019s political operation, established a consulting firm and subsequently received substantial campaign-related payments.<\/p>\n
What began as a public separation in July has become a significant financial relationship just days before the November 3 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than four months after resigning amid a fake Facebook controversy that attempted to pit conservatives against black…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-445486","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\/445486","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=445486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}