THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Bergman's fundraising relies roughly equally on PAC and committee money (55%) and individual donors (45%), with $293K in party and leadership contributions tracked separately. Industry-tied contributions show concentrated support from defense and aerospace firms (19% of industry money), followed by health services, legal and lobbying professionals, transportation, and automotive sectors. Individual donors employed in law, health services, and automotive sectors represent the clearest non-PAC donor base for this member.
Raised · all cycles$3.9M▲ 2% in ’24 vs ’22#123 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share19%Defense & Aerospace
Donor-sector votes22on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Bergman (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 Bergman voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 22 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Bergman'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$1.2M
THE BERGMAN VICTORY COMMITTEE
candidate's own committee
2$61K
ART MORAN BUICK GMC
employees
3$35K
SPECIAL OPERATIONS FOR AMERICA
PAC
4$35K
NETJETS ASSOCIATION OF SHARED AIRCRAFT PILOTS PAC; NJASAP PAC
PAC
5$30K
LEONARDO DRS PAC
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
LEGISLATION
3 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Armed Services
Veterans' Affairs
Budget
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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