THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Ricketts raised $6.9 million from 4,334 contributions evenly split between PAC/committee funding (44%) and individual donors (56%), with an additional $438,000 from party and single-issue political money. Industry-tied contributions show concentration in Lawyers & Lobbyists (18%), Securities & Investment (15%), Agriculture (7%), and Insurance (6%), patterns reflected in his individual donor base which includes significant representation from legal, investment, and government sectors. Over 74 recorded votes, Ricketts disclosed 30 stock trades under the STOCK Act.
Raised · all cycles$6.9M#34 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share18%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes5on 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 Alignment57%
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 that subjects large payment app companies in the Technology industry to federal supervisory authority. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) introduced this joint resolution. Technology ranks among Ricketts's top donor industries at 4.1% of identifiable contributions ($0.28M), placing #54 among Republican senators by concentration in this sector.
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Environment and Public Works
Foreign Relations
Budget
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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