THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Costa's fundraising relies moderately on PACs and committees, which account for 57% of his $5.0 million in direct contributions, with the remaining 43% coming from individual donors. Industry-tied contributions show concentration in agriculture (26% of sector money), followed by lawyers and lobbyists (9%), health services (7%), labor unions (6%), and oil and gas (6%), a pattern reflected among his individual donors who work notably in agriculture, legal services, and securities. He has no recorded stock trading disclosures on file and maintains a voting record spanning 336 recorded votes.
Raised · all cycles$5.0M▼ 17% in ’24 vs ’22#115 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share26%Agriculture
Donor-sector votes17on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Costa (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 Costa voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 17 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Costa'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$164K
AIPAC
PAC
2$60K
COOPERATIVE OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE
PAC
3$49K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
PAC
4$32K
VALLEY WORKS ACTION FUND
PAC
5$31K
CALIFORNIA STRATEGIES
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Agriculture
Foreign Affairs
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
D-GA · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Vince Fong
R-CA · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Mike Bost
R-IL · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Jodey C. Arrington
R-TX · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
August Pfluger
R-TX · House
AgricultureLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Lizzie Fletcher
D-TX · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesLabor Unions