{"id":52924,"date":"2022-04-08T00:16:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52924"},"modified":"2022-04-08T00:17:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:17:24","slug":"republican-candidate-tiffany-esposito-collected-more-than-60000-in-her-first-month-running-for-florida-house-district-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/04\/republican-candidate-tiffany-esposito-collected-more-than-60000-in-her-first-month-running-for-florida-house-district-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican\u00a0candidate Tiffany Esposito\u00a0collected more than $60,000 in her first month running for Florida House District 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During Esposito\u2019s first campaign reporting period Esposito collected $60,225 in new donations. 98% of her donations came from outside of Lehigh Acres, PACs, and other local politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tiffany Esposito<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The political committees offering Esposito <\/a>maximum donations included Shane Abbott\u2019s Prescription for Florida\u2019s Prosperity, Richard Johnston\u2019s First Amendment Fund, William Jones\u2019 Conservative Choice, Florida Accountability Fund, and Good Government for Florida committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prominent businesses and leaders who donated $1,000 included mining company Troyer Brothers Florida (they own mines on 82 and corkscrew rd) and a related Pennsylvania company named Troyer Brothers, Fort Myers-based Pro Max Compliance, and JHS Builders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political committees<\/a> controlled by Sen. Ray Rodrigues and by Reps. David Borrero, Mike Giallombardo, Jenna Persons, and Spencer Roach all gave $1,000 donations to Esposito. So did a committee controlled by Lee County Commissioner Kevin Ruane, while one for Lee County Commissioner Brian Hamman gave $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Hamman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kevin Ruane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spencer Roach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Persons\u2019 law firm, Strayhorn & Persons, also gave $1,000. Lehigh Acres Fireboard lawyer works for Strayhorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Terry Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Southwest Florida Jobs Alliance, chaired by political consultant Terry Miller, gave $1,000 as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esposito\u2019s campaign is being run by political consultant Terry Miller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this what Lehigh Acres needs someone that does take thousands of dollars from other politicians and PACs? Esposito does not live in the District or in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eric Engelhart<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time to send someone from Lehigh Acres to Tallahassee. The voters in Lehigh Acres should support Eric Engelhart as their Representative and tell the special interest to no away.  www.voteforericengelhart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During Esposito\u2019s first campaign reporting period Esposito collected $60,225 in new donations. 98% of her donations came from outside of Lehigh Acres, PACs, and other local politicians. The political committees offering… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52932,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52924\/revisions\/52932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}