THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Ricketts' fundraising profile is balanced between PAC and committee sources at 44 percent and individual donors at 56 percent, with $409K in separate party and leadership contributions. Industry-tied money in his contribution base concentrates in Lawyers & Lobbyists (19 percent), Securities & Investment (15 percent), and Agriculture (7 percent), a pattern reflected in his individual donor employment base which similarly draws from legal, financial, and government sectors. His voting record spans 72 recorded votes with 30 stock trades disclosed under the STOCK Act.
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%)
The bill sjres28-119 would nullify a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that expands supervisory authority over larger payment app providers in the Technology industry. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) introduced this joint resolution. Technology accounts for 3.8% of Ricketts's identifiable donor base ($0.27M), ranking 66th among donor industries for Republicans in his party.
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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