THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Representative Pocan's fundraising is evenly split between PAC and committee contributions (51%) and individual donors (49%), reflecting moderate reliance on institutional funding sources. His industry-tied contributions are concentrated in labor unions, which account for 42% of that money, followed by health services (17%), with smaller shares from agriculture, legal services, and real estate. Among individual donors with disclosed employment, lawyers, lobbyists, and health services professionals form the primary donor base alongside educators.
Raised · all cycles$2.9M▼ 7% in ’24 vs ’22#161 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share42%Labor Unions
Donor-sector votes15on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Pocan (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 Pocan voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 15 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Pocan'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$41K
UW CREDIT UNION
corporation
2$40K
AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
PAC
3$30K
ARENBERG HOLDINGS
employees
4$30K
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL, AIR, RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS POLITICAL ACTION LEAGUE
PAC
5$30K
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES P E O P L E
PAC
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Appropriations
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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Joaquin Castro
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Kweisi Mfume
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James P. McGovern
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Al Green
D-TX · House
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Judy Chu
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