Democrat Jennifer Jenkins has been caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar, having been found taking over $107,000 in consulting fees and candidate salary from several political committees with connections to her campaigns while leaping back and forth between three federal races in a nine month period, all the while telling voters she was delivering groceries in order to pay her bills.
Federal Election Commission records reveal that Jenkins’ national PAC, Educated We Stand, paid her a total of $5,000 a month for “consulting/political strategy” from July 2024 through August 2025. That equals $70,000 in payments reported by the PAC before Jenkins launched her bid for the Senate. The Florida Democrat’s campaign committee, Jennifer Jenkins for U.S. Congress, then started paying her a “candidate salary.”
Those payments started rolling into her bank account in late October 2025 and kept on coming until July 2026, which brings the combined total up to $107,315.62. Jenkins threw her hat in the ring for U.S. Senate in September 2025 against Sen. Ashley Moody, a Republican. In an advertisement put out to launch her campaign, Jenkins tried to paint herself as being a relatable figure to the working class by saying she was delivering groceries and taking a second job due to financial hardship.
According to a report from The Florida Voice, she spoke with media outlets at the time and said she worked for Instacart. Conveniently for Jenkins, campaign-finance records don’t list wages earned from Instacart. Those filings record committee receipts and spending, not a candidate’s personal paycheck. A different, separate personal finance disclosure usually requires an individual to report any earned income above $200 during the relevant time period.
Jenkins put up the white flag for her Senate campaign in late January 2026, opting instead to endorse Democrat Alex Vindman. Several days later, she announced she would be running for a House seat in Florida’s 6th Congressional District against Rep. Randy Fine. After the state adopted a new district map, she then switched to running for the 8th District in order to challenge Rep. Mike Haridopolos.
All of this came about after Jenkins decided not to run for re-election to the Brevard County School Board. In late 2024, Jenkins searched for a speech-language pathologist job at Sea Park Elementary. Several reports stated that she cited the need for extra time on the district payroll in order to qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The district offered her substitute teaching instead, which she promptly declined.
All of the financial records, along with Jenkins’ campaign history provide voters with a timeline that they can comb through. She received thousands of upon thousands of dollars in recurring consulting payments from a political action committee that she herself created, then paid herself a salary from the campaign that she ran, all while attempting to play on the sympathies of voters by creating a false narrative that she was under significant financial strain and delivering groceries just to keep herself afloat amid jumping between three different federal races.
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