THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Balderson's fundraising profile relies substantially on PACs and committees, which account for 59% of his $5.5M in direct contributions, with the remaining 41% drawn from individual donors. Industry-tied contributions show concentration in health services, legal and lobbying sectors, insurance, construction and engineering, and electric utilities, with similar sector representation among his individual donors from the legal, health services, and construction fields. He has cast 336 recorded votes with no stock trading disclosures on file.
Raised · all cycles$5.5M▲ 20% in ’24 vs ’22#88 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share13%Health Services
Donor-sector votes21on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Balderson (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 Balderson voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 21 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Balderson'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$156K
TAKE BACK THE HOUSE 2022
other
2$74K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PAC
PAC
3$51K
ARIEL CORPORATION
employees
4$33K
KIMBLE COMPANIES
employees
5$30K
ABBOTT LABORATORIES EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
LEGISLATION
1 sponsored
COMMITTEES
Energy and Commerce
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Adrian Smith
R-NE · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsInsurance
W. Gregory Steube
R-FL · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsInsurance
Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann
R-TN · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering
Lloyd Smucker
R-PA · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsInsurance
Nathaniel Moran
R-TX · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsInsurance
Paul Tonko
D-NY · House
Health ServicesLawyers & LobbyistsConstruction & Engineering