Campaign finance reports show U.S. Army Reserve Capt. Yoni Anijar gave his campaign $180,000 last week as he tries to keep pace in an expensive GOP Primary to succeed term-limited Rep. Chip LaMarca in HD 100.
The new dollars bring Anijar’s outside fundraising total to $216,000, which does not include the $235,000 he has loaned his campaign. His political committee also raised $10,000 last week, and now has $42,000 cash on hand.
Including affiliated committees, the candidate in the race who has raised the most in outside money remains pediatric plastic surgeon Eric “Doc” Stelnicki. He has not yet filed a report for the latest reporting period, but through July 10 he had raised $224,000 through his campaign and $194,000 through his committee, and had loaned himself an additional $122,000.
On the spending side, the July 11 to 17 reporting period saw Anijar spend $100,000. His campaign and committee have now spent a combined $170,000 through July 17, while Stelnicki has spent $100,000 through July 10, the latest period for which his campaign finance reports are available.
Mailers and advertising are the biggest expenses for Anijar, while Stelnicki has spent nearly $100,000 on political consulting and fundraising consulting.
Other Republican candidates in the race include entrepreneur Raul Gallon and former Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Mayor Chris Vincent, whose campaign finance reports are current through July 10.
Gallon reports $17,000 in contributions and $65,000 in loans, of which he has spent $45,000. Vincent has only spent $33,000 of the $87,000 his campaign has raised. Neither man reported significant fundraising or spending in the June 27 to July 10 reporting period.
LaMarca, the seat’s Republican incumbent, won re-election in 2024 with 57% of the vote. His district is the only Republican-held seat entirely within Broward County, historically a Democratic stronghold.
To keep the seat in Republican hands, the GOP nominee will have to defeat Democrat Michael Ferguson, a lawyer and Air Force veteran who raised more than his four Republican rivals combined between April 1 and June 12.
