THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Zinke's fundraising profile relies heavily on individual donors, who provided 86 percent of his $15.4 million total, with PACs and committees accounting for 14 percent. Among industry-tied contributions, his donor base shows concentration in financial and legal services—lawyers and lobbyists (12 percent), securities and investment (10 percent), and real estate (9 percent)—with smaller shares from oil and gas (8 percent) and construction and engineering (7 percent). Individual donors employed in law, finance, and real estate represent the dominant occupational sectors in his employment-based donor pool.
Raised · all cycles$15.4M▲ 47% in ’24 vs ’22#10 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share12%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes17on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Zinke (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 Zinke voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 17 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Zinke'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$212K
BIG SKY VOTERS PAC
PAC
2$81K
HUNTER ACTION FUND (HAF)
PAC
3$55K
MURPHY CO
employees
4$45K
HMP
PAC
5$42K
XEBEC
employees
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
COMMITTEES
Appropriations
Foreign Affairs
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
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