THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Ricketts' fundraising is balanced between PAC and committee money (44%) and individual donors (56%), with individual contributors predominantly employed in law, securities, and government sectors. Industry-tied contributions show concentration in legal and financial services—lawyers and lobbyists account for 19% of industry money and securities and investment firms for 15%—followed by smaller shares from agriculture, insurance, and government-sector donors. His financial disclosure filings document 30 stock trades during his time in office.
Raised · all cycles$6.1M#34 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share19%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes3on 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.
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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
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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