THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Ricketts' $6.9M fundraising profile is split roughly evenly between PAC/committee money (44%) and individual donors (56%), with an additional $389K from party and single-issue political sources. Industry-tied contributions show concentration in Lawyers & Lobbyists (19%), Securities & Investment (15%), and Agriculture (7%), patterns reflected among his employed individual donors who work substantially in legal, financial, and government sectors. His 72 recorded votes and 30 stock trades on file are available for public review alongside his contribution history.
Raised · all cycles$6.9M#33 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share19%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes4on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Ricketts (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 Ricketts voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors
Each dollar figure is Ricketts'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$2.4M
PETE RICKETTS VICTORY FUND
candidate's own committee
2$636K
CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE
PAC
3$284K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
PAC
4$218K
2024 THUNE REPUBLICAN SENATE VICTORY
PAC
5$210K
PEARSON & ASSOCIATES
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
War Chest82%
Pete Ricketts self-funded 78% of their campaign ($5.4M in candidate money)
$5.4M of Pete Ricketts's campaign funding — 78% of total contributions — came from the candidate's own loans and contributions, as reported to the FEC. Self-funding is legal and fully disclosed; it is shown here because a self-funded campaign has a different donor profile than a donor-funded one.
Sponsor–Industry Alignment55%
Pete Ricketts (R) is primary sponsor of Technology bill sjres28-119; Technology is a top donor industry (4%)
SJres28-119 would nullify a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule expanding regulatory oversight of large Technology companies operating payment applications. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) introduced the bill. Technology comprises 3.8% of Ricketts's identifiable donor base ($0.27M), ranking 69th among donor industries for Republican senators.
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Environment and Public Works
Foreign Relations
Budget
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Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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