CopyCited 53 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 15897, 2010 WL 2977614
...their campaigns. That system also provides participating candidates like
McCollum with a subsidy when a nonparticipating opponent spends in excess of
$2 for each registered Florida voter, which for this election means almost $25
million. Fla. Stat. §§
106.34,
106.355.
On July 7, as his campaign expenditures were rapidly approaching the $25
million threshold, Scott filed a complaint in the district court and asked the court to
enjoin preliminarily the operation of the excess spending subsidy....
...The Florida public
financing system provides a subsidy to a participating candidate when an opposing
candidate who has chosen not to participate in public financing exceeds the
statutory expenditure limit, which for this election is $24,901,170, or $2 for each
registered voter. Fla. Stat. §§
106.34,
106.355....
...application for matching funds, Fla. Admin. Code Ann. r. 1S-2.047(1); be an
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opposed candidate, Fla. Stat. §
106.33; agree to abide by an expenditure limit,
which for the 2010 election is $24,901,170, id. §
106.34; raise an initial $150,000
in qualified contributions from Florida residents before receiving any public funds,
id....
CopyCited 19 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1994 WL 592242
...During his gubernatorial campaign to become the Republican nominee, he and his running mate for Lieutenant Governor expended a total of $2,219,859.57. The maximum expenditure limit for a candidate for Governor who requests contributions from the Trust Fund is $5,000,000 in both primary elections and the general election. § 106.34, Fla....
...d election to participate; (d) Jim Smith must repay the Trust Fund an amount equal to the public campaign funds that he received in his gubernatorial race relating to his expenditures in that race over the $2,000,000 spending limit established in subsection
106.34(1)(b), applying to candidates for cabinet officers; (e) Bob Crawford has a right, pursuant to section
106.355, to obtain public matching funds for those campaign contributions that Jim Smith received in his gubernatorial race in excess...
...ter bid for a cabinet office, inasmuch as such funds must either have been spent in pursuit of the gubernatorial bid or be returned to the Fund. The campaign expenditure limitations for a candidate requesting contributions from the Fund are found in Section 106.34, Florida *522 Statutes....
...It is significant that the language requiring permission from contributors to a withdrawing candidate to carry over funds to the campaign for a newly designated office was *524 added to section
106.021 by chapter 91-107, Laws of Florida. In that same chapter, the Legislature also amended the campaign financing provisions in section
106.34 to change the expenditure limits for campaigns for Governor and Lieutenant Governor and for cabinet officer....
...Smith has received public campaign financing in his race for Governor of Florida and Mr. Smith's campaign expenditures in his race for Governor exceeded the $2,000,000 limitation applicable to a candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture set forth in section 106.34(1)(b), Florida Statutes (1993), these contributions and expenditures do not render Smith ineligible for public financing of his campaign for Commissioner of Agriculture....
CopyCited 4 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 19 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 224, 1994 Fla. LEXIS 624, 1994 WL 149669
...appropriation. [4] Thus, the definitions in chapter 216 do not control the outcome of this case. The Republican Party argues that the failure to identify a specific dollar amount to be transferred renders the funding provision null. We do not agree. Section 106.34 sets limits on the amounts candidates can spend....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...their campaigns. That system also provides participating candidates like
McCollum with a subsidy when a nonparticipating opponent spends in excess of
$2 for each registered Florida voter, which for this election means almost $25
million. Fla. Stat. §§
106.34,
106.355.
On July 7, as his campaign expenditures were rapidly approaching the $25
million threshold, Scott filed a complaint in the district court and asked the court to
enjoin preliminarily the operation of the excess spending subsidy....
...The Florida public
financing system provides a subsidy to a participating candidate when an opposing
candidate who has chosen not to participate in public financing exceeds the
statutory expenditure limit, which for this election is $24,901,170, or $2 for each
registered voter. Fla. Stat. §§
106.34,
106.355....
...application for matching funds, Fla. Admin. Code Ann. r. 1S-2.047(1); be an
11
opposed candidate, Fla. Stat. §
106.33; agree to abide by an expenditure limit,
which for the 2010 election is $24,901,170, id. §
106.34; raise an initial $150,000
in qualified contributions from Florida residents before receiving any public funds,
id....
