THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Valadao's fundraising profile is moderately dependent on PACs and committees, which account for 58 percent of his $10.2 million in direct contributions, with the remaining 42 percent from individual donors; separately, $2.7 million came from party and leadership sources. Industry-tied contributions show particular concentration in agriculture (17 percent of industry money), real estate (13 percent), and lawyers and lobbyists (8 percent), a pattern reflected among his individual donors who work primarily in those same sectors. He has no recorded stock trading disclosures on file across his 336 recorded votes.
Raised · all cycles$10.2M▲ 18% in ’24 vs ’22#34 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share17%Agriculture
Donor-sector votes24on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Valadao (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 Valadao voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 24 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Valadao'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$1.5M
HMP
PAC
2$836K
GROW THE MAJORITY
PAC
3$624K
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND
PAC
4$413K
PROTECT THE HOUSE 2024
PAC
5$341K
EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
Sector-Aligned Voting97%
David G. Valadao (R) voted YEA on 14 of 14 bills classified as favoring their donor sectors — #17 rate in the House
Rep. David G. Valadao voted yes on 14 of 14 bills (100%) classified as favoring his top donor sectors including Real Estate and Defense & Aerospace, ranking #17 among House members on this metric. He voted yes on HR6644-119, the "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act," classified as favoring Real Estate, and also voted yes on both bills classified as limiting those sectors.
Committee–Donor Overlap70%
David G. Valadao (R) sits on the Agriculture committee overseeing Agriculture — their largest tracked donor sector (12%)
Rep. David G. Valadao (R-CA) serves on the House Committee on Agriculture, which has jurisdiction over the Agriculture sector. Agriculture accounts for 12.3% of his identifiable donations ($1.25M), ranking him 26th among Republicans in donor concentration from that sector.
COMMITTEES
Agriculture
Appropriations
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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