THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Representative Smith's funding profile relies more heavily on individual donors (66%) than PACs and committees (34%), with $537K in party and leadership contributions tracked separately. His industry-tied contributions show notable concentration in labor unions, which represent nearly a third of his economic-sector funding, followed by lawyers and lobbyists, securities and investment, real estate, and construction and engineering. Among employed individual donors specifically, the largest occupational overlap occurs in legal, financial services, and real estate sectors.
Raised · all cycles$2.8M▼ 46% in ’24 vs ’22#170 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share32%Labor Unions
Donor-sector votes6on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Smith (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How Smith voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors
Each dollar figure is Smith's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$279K
AUTISM HEAR US NOW PAC
PAC
2$58K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS PAC(AIPAC)
PAC
3$58K
CONGRESS NJ
PAC
4$42K
NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE
PAC
5$30K
ENGINEERS POLITICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE (EPEC)/INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
LEGISLATION
3 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Foreign Affairs
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Stephen F. Lynch
D-MA · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment
John Garamendi
D-CA · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsReal Estate
Eleanor Holmes Norton
D-DC · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsReal Estate
Lois Frankel
D-FL · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment
Madeleine Dean
D-PA · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & Investment
Lori Trahan
D-MA · House
Labor UnionsLawyers & LobbyistsReal Estate