THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Wesley Bell's fundraising profile relies heavily on individual donors, who account for 91 percent of his $8.8 million in direct contributions, with PACs and committees comprising only 9 percent. Industry-tied contributions show concentration in legal and financial services, with lawyers and lobbyists providing 27 percent of industry money, securities and investment professionals contributing 19 percent, and real estate donors accounting for 12 percent—patterns consistent across both overall industry funding and employed individual donors. His contribution profile reflects donor occupations in professional and financial sectors rather than a diversified economic base across multiple industries.
Raised · all cycles$8.8M#53 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share27%Lawyers & Lobbyists
Donor-sector votes8on bills touching top donor sectors
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Left: who funds Bell (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 Bell voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 8 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Bell'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$310K
UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT ('UDP')
PAC
2$295K
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
PAC
3$100K
JUSTICE DEMOCRATS PAC
PAC
4$96K
MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATS PAC
PAC
5$78K
EMPOWERING BLACK AMERICANS PAC
PAC
COMMITTEES
Armed Services
Oversight and Government Reform
SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS
Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.
Kirsten E. Gillibrand
D-NY · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentReal Estate
Charles E. Schumer
D-NY · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentReal Estate
Michael T. McCaul
R-TX · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentReal Estate
Stacey E. Plaskett
D-VI · House
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentReal Estate
John Cornyn
R-TX · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentReal Estate
Tim Kaine
D-VA · Senate
Lawyers & LobbyistsSecurities & InvestmentReal Estate