
Panetta's $8.8M fundraising profile is evenly split between PAC/committee money (53%) and individual donors (47%), with $263K in separate party and single-issue contributions. Industry-tied donations show distributed patterns across Agriculture (11%), Insurance (10%), Lawyers & Lobbyists (10%), Securities & Investment (10%), and Health Services (9%), while his individual donor base concentrates in legal services, financial securities, and real estate sectors. He has cast 336 recorded votes with no stock trade disclosures on file.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Panetta (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 Panetta voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors
Each dollar figure is Panetta'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
AIPAC
PAC
WITH HONOR FUND, INC.
PAC
NEW DEMOCRAT COALITION ACTION FUND
PAC
APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
employees
ARNOLD VENTURES
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
LEGISLATION
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COMMITTEES
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