THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Joe Wilson's $2.5 million fundraising profile is split roughly evenly between PAC and committee contributions (44%) and individual donors (56%), with an additional $150,000 from party and leadership sources. His industry-tied donor base shows notable concentration in Lawyers & Lobbyists and Defense & Aerospace (each 16% of industry money), followed by smaller shares from Health Services, Real Estate, and Insurance, while individual employed donors cluster in Lawyers & Lobbyists, Health Services, and Securities & Investment sectors. Wilson's 336 recorded votes and absence of stock trade disclosures are part of the public legislative record.
Raised · all cycles$2.7M▼ 14% in ’24 vs ’22#183 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share16%Defense & Aerospace
Donor-sector votes13on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Wilson (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 Wilson voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 13 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Wilson'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$117K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PAC - CONDUIT
PAC
2$30K
NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP FEDERAL POLITICAL CO
PAC
3$30K
NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH, LLP FEDERAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE
PAC
4$29K
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
PAC
5$29K
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
COMMITTEES
Armed Services
Foreign Affairs
Education and Workforce
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Jeanne Shaheen
D-NH · Senate
Defense & AerospaceLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Pete Aguilar
D-CA · House
Defense & AerospaceLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Veronica Escobar
D-TX · House
Defense & AerospaceLawyers & LobbyistsHealth Services
Bradley Scott Schneider
D-IL · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesReal Estate
Tina Smith
D-MN · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesReal Estate
Thom Tillis
R-NC · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsHealth ServicesReal Estate