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DATA COVERAGE not externally verified tier raw_mirror vintage 2026-08-27 coverage 1980-2024 · 2026 Midterms in flight! money live · figures computing (best estimates)
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Cook, Paul

candidate · H2CA08164
Cook, Paul CA · REP · House · CA-08 · incumbent
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Cook, Paul · every race, every cycle

6 cycles1 committees8 contributing committees91 vendors

Raised — contributing committees / cycle

Spent — vendor payments / cycle

IE support — independent expenditures for this candidate / cycle

Transferred out — other candidates funded / cycle

All four, combined -- 2016-2028

20162028
Raised Spent IE support Transferred out

2016–2028 · entity counts (money-dark); dollar trends light up at the flip. "Raised" is committee-routed contributions only — individual donors stay held pending the privacy decision, and there is no distinct bundler surface yet (#2488).

In this race

2016

DEM

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Ramirez-Dean, Rita Dr challenger 1

REP · primary contest (2 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Cook, Paul (this candidate) incumbent 118
Donnelly, Tim challenger 2

Every candidate on file for this race. A party with more than one filer is a live primary contest -- who becomes that party's nominee isn't in the data yet. Cash on hand is the official FEC filing figure, as of the filing's own coverage date -- not a live estimate. The remaining columns are money-dark proxies (counts, not dollars); a dash means no data on file for that candidate yet. Click a column heading to sort.

Campaign contact

YUCCA VALLEY, CA, 92284

Website, phone and social accounts arrive with the campaign-contact ingest (FEC F1 + social sources).

Money raised vs spent

coming

Raised-vs-spent over time — the per-cycle totals surface is coming.

Where the money comes from

by source type

PACs 98% · Super PACs 2%

Source typeContributionsAmount
PACs299$508,800
Super PACs11$9,045
Total (committee-sourced)$517,845

Money received from committees, split by the type of the paying committee (PAC, Super PAC, party, joint-fundraising, conduit). Individual (person) giving is aggregated separately with privacy suppression and is not included here.

Transfers in

from committees
Payer typeTransfersAmount
Joint-fundraising committees1$4,363
PACs1$2,500
Total$6,863

Committee-to-committee transfers received by this candidate's principal committee, split by the type of the sending committee.

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

0% by dollars

8 of 2679 individual contributions on file routed through a conduit, lifetime -- not per-cycle (the underlying edge source can't be cleanly split by year). Conduit dollars are the true donor's money, passed through a platform; not double-counted.

PAC vs. individual money

by dollars

Individual (direct) 85% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 15%

2679 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 310 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($2,825,756 vs $517,845). Two different grains -- individual money is scoped to the principal committee only; committee-routed money spans every authorized committee -- combined here as the closest count-first read of PAC- vs individual-dependence available today. Part of the funding-concentration strip (#2730); donor-sector concentration and top-vendor share are not yet available.

Where the money goes

beneficiaries

Money disbursed by this candidate's principal committee: contributions to other candidates (the "raises big, then funds allies" signal), transfers to committees by destination type, vendor spending, and independent expenditures made.

Where the donors are

precinct-floored · suppressed
Partial data. About 15% of donor money is geocoded, concentrated in 9 states (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL). Every other state — including the largest donor states (CA, NY, TX) — currently has zero geocoded rows. A blank state means not yet geocoded, never no donors here. Not a complete picture of donor geography.
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Aggregated itemized individual giving, geocoded to donor home address, suppressed for privacy (small or single-donor-dominated cells withheld). Unitemized giving has no geography.

Who runs it

Treasurer · WALLER, PHIL MR.

Board / senior staff arrive from the payroll-disbursement derivation.

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Paul Cook For Congress Principal campaign committee H

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2016:

No committee contributions on file for this cycle.

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

32 of this candidate's 40 top committee funders also fund the other side.

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Honeywell International Political Action Committee 50% / 50%
America'S Credit Unions Pac Of Credit Union National Association, Inc. 51% / 49%
Employees Of Northrop Grumman Corporation Pac 49% / 51%
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Employees Political Action Committee (Hiipac) 49% / 51%
Sempra Energy Employees Political Action Committee- Federal 49% / 51%
Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors' National Assoc., Inc. Political Action Committee 51% / 49%
Employees Of Rtx Corporation Political Action Committee 46% / 54%
General Electric Company Aerospace Employee Political Action Committee (Ge Aerospace Pac) 46% / 54%
At&T Inc. Employee Federal Political Action Committee (At&T Employee Federal Pac) 45% / 55%
American Hospital Association Pac 57% / 43%
Lockheed Martin Corporation Employees' Political Action Committee 43% / 57%
Bae Systems Inc. Political Action Committee (Bae Systems Usa Pac) 42% / 58%

Each committee's overall giving split by recipient party (by dollars).

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 2 committees · 2 expenditures · $32,510  ·  Opposing: 4 · 24 · $12,029

CommitteeStanceAmount
Activate America opposes $3,623
Everytown For Gun Safety Action Fund opposes $862
Phyllis Schlafly'S Eagle Pac opposes $7,500
The Really Online Lefty League opposes $45
Cooperative Of American Physicians Independent Expenditure Committee supports $26,598
Inland Empire Taxpayers Association Federal Pac supports $5,913

Independent expenditures for or against this candidate. 2016 excluded (known IE undercount).

8% of this candidate's receipts + outside spending is outside money (independent expenditures for/against, as a share of receipts plus outside spending).

Money out — top vendors

$ shown
VendorPaidPaymentsCategory
Anedot $2,432 37 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Fresquez, Michael $129,459 31 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Campaign Financial Services $41,202 24 001 (Administrative / overhead)
At&T Mobility $4,319 22 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Chase Card Services $46,814 17 001 (Administrative / overhead)
American Express $16,684 15 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Campaign Financial Services $12,345 14 001 (Administrative / overhead)
The Justin Company $371,154 14 003 (Fundraising & solicitation)
Fresquez, Michael $18,742 14 001 (Administrative / overhead)
At&T Mobility $2,520 14 001 (Administrative / overhead)
American Express $104,079 11 001 (Administrative / overhead)
Cardosa, Dante $9,798 10 001 (Administrative / overhead)

Payment counts from the principal committee; dollar totals held. Arc maps of where money goes arrive with the geo layer.

Top expenditure categories

$ held
CategoryPayments
001 (Administrative / overhead)412
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)92
004 (Advertising)40
002 (Travel)32
005 (Polling)4
007 (Campaign events)3
012 (Donations)1

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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