D-CA·U.S. House·District 27

George Whitesides

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$11.5M

raised· #39 in party

votes recorded

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trade disclosures

votes with party· loyal

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Whitesides' $11.5M fundraising profile is evenly split between PAC/committee sources (53%) and individual donors (47%), with $2.8M in party and leadership committee money tracked separately. Industry-tied contributions show pronounced donor concentration in labor unions (23%), securities and investment firms (20%), and legal services (10%), alongside smaller shares from defense and aerospace (9%) and education (7%). Individual donor employment patterns align with securities, legal services, and education sectors, suggesting consistent donor-base composition across contribution types.

Based on FEC donor data and voting records. Statistical patterns only — does not imply causation.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · the long tail of small-dollar individual donors isn't tagged

$3.7M

tagged $

Party & Leadership44.7%

Single-Issue Advocacy17.8%

Labor Unions11.7%

Securities & Investment10.0%

Lawyers & Lobbyists4.9%

Defense & Aerospace4.8%

Education3.4%

Technology2.7%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 32% of contributions we can trace to an industry (via PAC names and donor employers). Most political money comes from small online donors who don't list an employer, so it can't be traced — that portion isn't shown here.

DATA SOURCES

Financial: FEC · 2022–2026 cycles

Profile: Congress.gov

Votes: House Clerk / Senate · 2021–present

Lobbying: Senate LDA · 2017–present

Trades: STOCK Act disclosures ·

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · hover a slice for detail

$11.5M

classified

Party & Leadership44.7%

Single-Issue Advocacy17.8%

Labor Unions11.7%

Securities & Investment10.0%

Lawyers & Lobbyists4.9%

Defense & Aerospace4.8%

Education3.4%

Technology2.7%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$2,571,239

WHITESIDES, GEORGE T.

other

$1,577,054

CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND

PAC

$572,434

WHITESIDES VICTORY FUND

PAC

$365,846

CALIFORNIA HOUSE MAJORITY FUND

PAC

$143,167

MAJORITY FUND

PAC

$131,200

HMP

PAC

$104,351

LCV VICTORY FUND

PAC

$89,172

314 ACTION IMPACT SLATE

PAC

$78,538

JFW FUND

PAC

$76,591

TECHNICOLOR POLITICAL LLC

corporation

$68,609

SEIU COPE (SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION)

PAC

$67,229

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

DIXON, SOON-OK (NOT EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$20

PRESCHLER, ADELHEID (NOT EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$25

PRICE, LESLIE (MIT)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$1,000

ANDREWS, JASON (BIGIDEA PARTNERS)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$3,500

LOMBARDO, NICHOLAS (DISNEY)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$500

DALE, CARON (SELF EMPLOYED)

Individual · May 13, 2026

+$250

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.

Ruben Gallego

D-AZ · Senate

Party & LeadershipSingle-Issue AdvocacyLabor Unions

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Josh Riley

D-NY · House

Party & LeadershipSingle-Issue Advocacy

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Donor Mix Donut

Shows PAC contributions and employer-attributed individual donations grouped by industry — as a share of classified giving only. Contributions that could not be matched to an industry are excluded from the donut but included in the dollar totals above. Advocacy/ideological PACs are excluded from industry breakdown.

What are aggregators?

WinRed, ActBlue, and similar platforms bundle contributions from many individual donors before passing them to campaigns. Because these don't represent a single entity's interests, they are excluded from the Donor Mix and Top Sources views — but they are counted in total fundraising figures.

Data sources

FEC Schedule A & bulk PAC filings · 2022–2026 cycles · Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings · 2017–present · Congress.gov / House Clerk voting records.

Important disclaimer

All data is sourced from public records. Analysis reflects statistical patterns only — it does not imply corruption, intent, or quid pro quo. Donor relationships show financial alignment, not control. Capitol Trail makes no claims about the motivations or character of any individual or organization.

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purchases

sales

est. positions

+2 unparsed PTRs — Some older PTR filings exist as metadata only (asset details locked in PDFs). They are not included in the holdings estimate above. House-side parsing landing in a future update.

DATA SOURCES

House: housestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Senate: senatestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Required under the STOCK Act of 2012. Disclosure regime reports amount ranges, not exact share counts.

WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Lobbying is when companies, unions, and trade associations pay firms to influence laws and regulations — and the law requires them to disclose it. Every quarter, registrants file a report with Congress detailing who hired them, how much they spent, and which issues they pushed.

This page filters those filings to the industries that also fund this member's campaign. If commercial banks gave 30% of this member's donations and also filed 5,000 lobbying reports on bank-related issues last year, that's a financial pattern worth knowing about. It does not mean the member is corrupt — it means the industries paying to elect them are also paying to influence the laws they vote on.

89,587

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$14.0B

Reported spend

across those filings

Donor industries

tracked here

2017–2026

Years covered

10 years

LOBBYING BY DONOR INDUSTRY

only industries that also fund this member

Each row = an industry that donated to this member AND has lobbyists pushing on Congress. Bar width = reported lobbying spend.

Defense & Aerospace

48,778 filings$6.0B

Securities & Investment

19,298 filings$4.2B

Technology

20,580 filings$3.3B

Legal Services

931 filings$571.0M

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

The firms doing the most spending in this member's donor industries

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

5 filings

$1.0B

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

12 filings

$159.5M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

14 filings

$91.7M