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Espy, Michael

candidate · S8MS00287
Espy, Michael MS · DEM · Senate · MS · challenger
The seat — demographics, elections & money for this district full page ↗

Person: Espy, Michael · every race, every cycle

5 cycles1 committees39 contributing committees393 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

2018

DEM · primary contest (6 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Espy, Michael (this candidate) challenger 50
Baria, David Wayne open-seat 10
Bartee, Tobey open-seat 1
Scott, Omeria Lane challenger
Shelton, Jason open-seat
Sherman, Howard challenger 1

REP · primary contest (4 filers, order not yet known)

Candidate Status Cash on hand Contributing committees Raised / cycle Spent / cycle IE support / cycle Transferred / cycle
Boyanton, Richard Warren challenger
Hyde-Smith, Cindy open-seat 480
McDaniel, Christopher Brian open-seat 2
Wicker, Roger Sen. incumbent 677

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.

In the 2018 Senate field

MS

Espy, Michael ranks #15 of 529 Senate candidates nationally in 2018.

#CandidateStatePartyRaised
1 Sanders, Bernard VT IND $56,355,723
2 Brown, Sherrod OH DEM $43,945,698
3 Tester, R. Jon MT DEM $41,514,204
4 McSally, Martha AZ REP $38,525,275
5 Murphy, Christopher S CT DEM $31,406,433
6 Warren, Elizabeth MA DEM $30,998,675
7 Baldwin, Tammy WI DEM $30,006,651
8 Casey, Robert P. Jr. PA DEM $26,183,788
15 Espy, Michael (this candidate) MS DEM $16,881,431

The national Senate field for 2018, ranked by money raised. Party affiliation shown as filed — third-party and state-party labels (DFL, WFP, etc.) are not merged into DEM/REP.

Campaign contact

JACKSON, MS, 39236

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

Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed) 98% · PACs 2% · Super PACs 0% · Party committees 0% · Other committees 0%

Source typeContributionsAmount
Conduits (ActBlue / WinRed)514807$16,564,506
PACs92$297,425
Super PACs5$15,900
Party committees1$3,500
Other committees1$100
Total (committee-sourced)$16,881,431

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 committees10$222,234
Total$222,234

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

Individual-donor conduit dependency

lifetime

84% by dollars

49144 of 53710 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) 51% · Committee-routed (PAC / party / JFA / conduit) 49%

53710 individual contributions to this candidate's principal committee vs 514906 committee-routed contributions across every committee this candidate has authorized ($17,490,186 vs $16,881,431). 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 · BROWN, KAISER

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

Committees

authorized
CommitteeRoleType
Mike Espy For Senate Campaign Committee Principal campaign committee S

Money in

committee & PAC contributions

Contributing committees & PACs · 2018:

Committee / PACContributedContributionsCycles
ActblueActBlue · conduit $5,480,132 149,893 2018
Purpose Pac $5,000 5 2018
Windem $10,800 4 2018
American Association For Justice Political Action Committee (Aaj Pac) $10,000 4 2018
International Brotherhood Of Boilermakers Campaign Assistance Fund $10,000 3 2018
Uaw - V - Cap (Uaw Voluntary Community Action Program) 'Int'L Union United Automobile Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers Of America Uaw $12,000 3 2018
Victory Now Pac $10,000 2 2018
Oceans Pac $5,500 2 2018
Follow The North Star Fund $7,500 2 2018
Green Mountain Pac $7,500 2 2018
Party Majority Pac $5,400 2 2018
Communications Workers Of America - Cope Political Contributions Committee $4,000 2 2018
United Food And Commercial Workers International Union Active Ballot Club $10,000 2 2018
Common Ground Pac $10,000 2 2018
International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers Political Action Committee $10,000 2 2018
Joint Action Committee For Political Affairs $5,000 2 2018
International Association Of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail And Transportation Workers Political Action League $5,000 2 2018
Together Everyone Realizes Real Impact $5,000 2 2018
American Federation Of State County & Municipal Employees P E O P L E $10,000 2 2018
Common Sense Colorado $10,000 2 2018
Service Corporation International Pac $10,000 2 2018
Greater Opportunities For Leadership Development (Gold Pac) $2,000 2 2018
Seiu Cope (Service Employees International Union Committee On Political Education) $5,000 1 2018
National Association Of Letter Carriers Of U.S.A. Political Fund (Letter Carrier Political Fund) $5,000 1 2018
North America'S Building Trades Unions Political Educational Fund $2,500 1 2018

Committee & PAC contributions to this candidate. Individual donors remain held (donor-privacy decision).

Conduit dependency

via ActBlue / WinRed

100% of committee-routed contributions to this candidate (2018) arrive through conduit infrastructure — 149,893 of 149,961 contributions · 96% of dollars ($5,480,132).

ConduitAmount
ActBlue$5,480,132

Conduits (ActBlue, WinRed) are passthroughs — individuals give through them to candidates. This is the share of committee-routed contributions flowing over that infrastructure. Donor-level pass-through to the ultimate recipient is tracked separately (in progress).

Cross-party support

who funds both sides

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

Committee / PACOverall givingD / R
Service Corporation International Pac 49% / 51%
North America'S Building Trades Unions Political Educational Fund 63% / 37%
National Association Of Letter Carriers Of U.S.A. Political Fund (Letter Carrier Political Fund) 78% / 22%

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

Super PAC spending

outside money

Supporting: 13 committees · 118 expenditures · $2,513,704  ·  Opposing: 7 · 36 · $3,408,477

CommitteeStanceAmount
Powerpacplus supports $2,105,544
Feminist Majority supports $9,284
Nrsc opposes $1,665,407
Open Progress supports $1,831
Mississippi Victory Fund opposes $480,151
Indivisible Project Inc. supports $544
Proud Mississippians For Progress supports $99,922
Progressive Turnout Project supports $124,306
Senate Leadership Fund opposes $1,169,764
Left Of Center Pac supports $2,950
Blackpac supports $88,652
Build The Wave supports $6,740
People For The American Way supports $60,111
Mississippi Republican Party opposes $23,706
Women Speak Out Pac opposes $10,125

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

26% 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
Actblue Technical Services $429,483 101
Bankplus $2,279 83
Adp Payroll $631,111 80
Regions Bank $1,693 67
Actblue Technical Services $215,166 65 003 (Fundraising & solicitation)
Google.Com $6,106 52
Authentic Campaigns $639,812 42
Delta Airlines $18,693 37
Chevron $1,295 31
Tatango $10,754 30
Mvar Media $1,967,693 29
Google.Com $3,012 25

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
003 (Fundraising & solicitation)65
006 (Campaign materials)26
001 (Administrative / overhead)14
007 (Campaign events)4
005 (Polling)1

Disbursement categories by payment count; dollar rollups held.

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