A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a political action committee’s (PAC) request to share signatures of tens of thousands of supporters and their contact information with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to boost his would-be presidential campaign, saying that the contact list has a market value exceeding the contribution limit set by federal regulators.
The dispute was raised by Ready For Ron (RFR), a Miami-based PAC with the goal of getting 1 million people to sign a petition to encourage DeSantis to run for president. As of this February, RFR had spent over $1 million in “soliciting and gathering over 200,000 real, electronic, and telephonic signatures with contact information,” according to court filings.
