Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is betting his campaign that a more ethical approach to fundraising will build donor trust and help the GOP out-raise Democrats in the long run.

DeSantis’ team says it is staying away from the tricks and gimmicks that are a staple of political fundraising in both political parties, according to The New York Times. The Florida Republican’s presidential campaign has pledged to avoid spammy and irritating fundraising tactics, such as desperate pleas and fake deadlines.

To reinforce that message, the DeSantis campaign headquarters in Tallahassee has a wall devoted to tens of thousands of small-dollar donors. The first name and last initial of each person who has contributed to the DeSantis campaign is written on the wall in blue, red, or black script.

“We want our staff to look at that wall, remember who supports us, to remember why we’re here,” DeSantis campaign manager Generra Peck told the Times.

The Democratic Party fundraising machine, which rests on its online platform ActBlue, has long held an advantage over the GOP. Democrats typically have deeper pockets that can translate to more advertising and better awareness. The Republican Party’s answer to ActBlue, a platform called WinRed, was built 15 years later and has not yet helped the GOP match Democratic fundraising.

Former President Donald Trump is the most successful online fundraiser the Republican Party has ever had, according to the Times. Much of Trump’s success can be attributed to fundraising tactics that the DeSantis campaign has now sworn off.

The DeSantis campaign believes that tactics that Trump and numerous other politicians across the political spectrum have embraced have hurt fundraising as small-dollar donors become weary from constant pleas for money.

These types of tactics include things like setting the default for online donations as “recurring donations” so donations are made every month when the donor only believes that they are making a one-time donation, according to a separate report from The Times. Those who gave had to “wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.”

The DeSantis team is betting that a more measured approach will lead to long-term gains and help Republicans cut into the money advantage held by Democrats.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s net worth has skyrocketed ever since she became a member of the nation’s highest court — which has led to criticism from experts.

Fox News reported that, according to financial disclosures, Sotomayor’s wealth increased from being in the $15,001-$65,000 range in 2008 to being in the $1,600,000-$6,600,000 range in 2021.

Sotomayor was nominated by then-President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court in 2009. A recent data analysis of her actions on the court found that she is the most partisan justice on the court.

The 69-year-old reportedly makes more than $25,000 per year teaching law schools in addition to her $285,400 salary from the court.

The Associated Press reported that the main reason that her wealth has surged is because of the books that she has written.

Sotomayor used her taxpayer-funded to court staff to enrich herself by using them to perform tasks “for the justice’s book ventures.

“Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009,” the report said.

The report said that she continues to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties from her book sales.

The publisher of her books, Penguin Random House, has been involved in “several matters” before the court in which Sotomayor did not recuse herself.

“Justice Sotomayor would have recused in cases in which Penguin Random House was a party, in light of her close and ongoing relationship with the publisher,” the Supreme Court said in a statement. “An inadvertent omission failed to bring Penguin’s participation in several cases to her attention; those cases ultimately were not selected for review by the Court. Chambers’ conflict check procedures have since been changed.”

Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter said that he was “very concerned” about Sotomayor’s book sales while on the court.

“It’s problematic to the core,” he said. “I think that’s wrong. There’s just too much money in it, millions of dollars. We’ve got to know the difference between judges and cable news hosts.”

Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, slammed recent partisan attacks by Senate Democrats on conservative justices, saying that their silence on the Sotomayor situation revealed that they don’t actually care about ethics.

“What is unmistakable is the deafening silence of so many Democrats and others on the left who have constantly attacked conservative Supreme Court justices — and for far less,” said Davis. “If Senate Democrats actually cared about ethics, they’d start by cleaning up the crack den called the Biden White House.”