THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Laura Gillen's fundraising profile is weighted toward individual donors, who account for 74 percent of her $5.6 million in direct contributions, with PACs and committees comprising the remaining 26 percent. Her industry-tied contributions show concentrated donor patterns in legal and financial services—lawyers and lobbyists represent 24 percent of industry money, securities and investment firms 21 percent, and these same sectors appear prominently among her employed individual donors alongside real estate professionals. Labor unions, real estate, and health services round out secondary industry sources, while $1.8 million in party and leadership-aligned contributions form a separate component of her overall fundraising.
Raised · all cycles$5.6M#97 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share24%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes7on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Gillen (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 Gillen voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 7 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Gillen'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$508K
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND
PAC
2$289K
BATTLEGROUND NEW YORK
PAC
3$281K
HMP
PAC
4$200K
COMMON SENSE NEW YORK
PAC
5$86K
BERLIN ROSEN, LTD.
corporation
COMMITTEES
Transportation and Infrastructure
Science, Space, and Technology
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Adriano Espaillat
D-NY · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
D-FL · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Grace Meng
D-NY · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Sheldon Whitehouse
D-RI · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Susan M. Collins
R-ME · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions
Glenn Ivey
D-MD · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentLabor Unions