Campaign Report Roundup
The Bots and the Base
The Broward Democratic Party has officially taken the "current thing" NPC meme to its logical extreme.
Campaign reports show the party paying two hundred dollars a month for OpenAI's premium ChatGPT plan. That is the one with access to GPT 5, voice tools, and video generation.
For years "the current thing" has been a running meme on the internet for skewering the Democrats as being mindless NPCs.
Now it is real. Broward Democrats have taken the joke to the next level. Real life imitating parody.
But you can't fake a field program with a chatbot. It's a strong signal that Broward Democrats believe their base will eat up whatever AI slop they're dishing out.
Instead of talking to voters, they are talking to a bot. Instead of field programs, they are fielding prompts.
If the goal is to sound less human, they are off to a great start.
Sell Signal in District 100
In House District 100, the only state race in Broward that really matters this year, Yoni Anijar looks like he is running out of gas.
His campaign has had three straight quarters of declining fundraising. If you plotted his finance reports on a chart it would look like a memecoin. If he were a stock, he would be a sell.
The numbers are not kind. His only significant contribution from inside the district comes from one name: Marc Anidjar. Yes, that's his relative you hear blaring from the radio 32 times a day trolling for injuries.
Anijar made noise early as a young Republican leader who could follow State Representative Chip LaMarca to represent his coastal district in Tallahassee. But the buzz has faded. The checks have too.
Meanwhile, support in that race is flowing toward Dr. Eric Stelnicki. His campaign reports show steady checks from a broad mix of Broward's civic core and bold name local Republicans like Justin Sayfie, Former U.S. Senator George LeMieux and Michael Hooley.
It is early, and money is not everything. But the type of checks Stelnicki is pulling in show genuine community backing. The kind that does not come from a consultant's list but from real community roots.
Battle of the Babes
In Broward County Commission District 6, the consultant class is trying to set up a battle between two city commissioners.
Democrat Caryl Shuham clearly has the momentum. Her campaign reports show she has raised nearly a quarter-million dollars, and has about $187,726.53 in the bank
Her rival, Traci Callari, is almost flat broke by comparison. Latest filings show just about $4,400 raised and she's spent most of it!
Callari recently hired MDW Communications, a high-profile progressive firm led by Michael Worley to try to spark traction.
The result so far: Not much.
Shuham racked-up another strong quarter while Callari still is putting on her socks and shoes to run the race.