Jon Husted
Republican
· OH Senate · 119th Congress
Senate Committee on Appropriations · Rural Development · Food and Drug Administration · and Related Agencies · Health and Human Services · and Education · Foreign Operations · and Related Programs · Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Waste Management · Environmental Justice · and Regulatory Oversight · and Nuclear Innovation and Safety · and Water · Senate Committee on Health · and Pensions · Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship · Senate Special Committee on Aging
Influence Score
80.9
Highly exposed
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This score measures financial influence across twelve categories. Each bar shows how this member compares to all others in Congress. Longer bars mean more exposure.
Score breakdown — twelve categories
Contributionsmoney from PACs (political action committees) and individual donors
5.0
/ 12
Outside spendingmoney spent by groups to help elect them
3.1
/ 6
Spent to help elect them
$2,706,279
Outside groups that spent to help elect this member — this drives the outside-spending bar above
Spent to defeat this member
$22,062
Outside groups that spent to defeat this member (not counted in this score)
Lobbyinghow hard lobbyists push the committees this member sits on
8.4
/ 10
Revolving door
former staff now working as lobbyists
0.0
/ 3
Vote alignmenthow often they vote the way their donors want
7.5
/ 12
Contribution timingmoney arriving near key votes
0.0
/ 6
Stock tradesbuying stocks in industries they regulate
0.0
/ 1
Dark moneyfunding from groups that hide their donors
< 0.1
/ 2
Outbound money distributionmoney this member sends out to the party and to colleagues
0.0
/ 16
Cluster network breadthhow many coordinated funding networks back this member
6.8
/ 10
Committee jurisdiction powerthe legislative reach of the committees this member sits on
6.0
/ 10
Foreign interestforeign-interest money — Israel-policy PACs and FARA-registered institutional lobbying allocated by committee jurisdiction
7.7
/ 12
Israel-policy PACs behind this score
REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (RJC-PAC)
$21 direct
FARA institutional lobbying
This member’s committees are targeted by $228.06M in lobbying from FARA-registered firms representing South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia. This exposure is weighted at 0.2% of face value in the score — $456K.
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Biggest funding source
The single network behind the most money and influence
Network
SLF PAC
Total money from this network
$63,796,670
Number of funding networks contributing
1
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Where most of the money comes from
What share of their combined contributions and outside spending comes from a single network. Party committees are excluded.
Network
SLF PAC
Share from this one network
26.5%
Amount from this network
$1,160,552
Total from all networks
$4,384,929
Networks contributing
350
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Who funds Husted
Every funding network we can measure, ranked by influence
$3,591,175
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Does the money match their power?
Whether their money comes from the industries their committees actually oversee
Money from industries they regulate
8.7%
Extra weight when money matches their committees
1.50×
Share of outside spending tied to their policy areas
9.1%
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Money timed to key votes
Donations arriving near key votes in the policy areas this member regulates
No suspicious timing patterns detected.
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Top Donors
Biggest sources of contributions, grouped by employer, this cycle
HOMEMAKER
$643K
MARATHON PETROLEUM
$45K
EMBASSY HEALTHCARE
$40K
RDV
$39K
GOLDMAN SACHS
$33K
CENTENE
$28K
PRESTON SUPERSTORE
$24K
AMERICAN FINANCIAL
$21K
ORACLE
$21K
STARKEY HEARING
$21K
INVARIANT
$20K
CONTINUUM VENTURES
$19K
RADIANCE TECHNOLOGIES
$16K
VIAQUEST
$16K
CHARTWELL STRATEGY
$15K
BLACKSTONE
$14K
CBC COMPANIES
$14K
CINTAS
$14K
COOPER FARMS
$14K
KJK
$14K
Where the outside money comes from
How much of the outside spending for and against Jon Husted comes from groups that disclose their donors versus groups that hide them
Total outside spending received
$602K
Disclosed outside spending
$21K
Dark-money outside spending
$581K
Share that is dark money
96.52%
Dark money tied to their policy areas
$0
Groups hiding their donors
2
By funding network
SLF PAC
$1.16M
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION
$1.05M
CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION
$501K
INDIVISIBLE ACTION ARIZONA
$15K
ACTIVATE AMERICA
$7K
Groups that hide their donors
$331K
$250K
Likely donors behind the dark money supporting this member
Inferred
Donors who fund the disclosed PACs in the same network as the hidden groups above. "Coverage" is how many of that network's disclosed groups a donor funds — the more they fund, the more likely they also back the hidden group.
CLUB FOR GROWTH ACTION
$7.80M
JEFF YASS
$243.01M
VIRGINIA JAMES
$30.65M
TRUTH AND COURAGE PAC
$21.90M
BRETT HENDRICKSON
$1.02M
ROGER HERTOG
$675K
BITCOIN FREEDOM PAC
$114K
NRCC
$840K
MILLER-MEEKS FOR CONGRESS
$109K
WIN IT BACK PAC
$128.61M
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Pro-Israel network donors
This counts contributions to this member from individuals whose FEC filings also show contributions to one of the 16 pro-Israel political action committees tracked by the Index. It is a measure of donor overlap — not a claim about why any individual gave, and not part of the influence score.
165 individuals who also gave to pro-Israel PACs contributed $348K to Jon Husted across 217 contributions.
Total from shared contributors
$348K
Shared contributors
165
Contributions
217
By cycle
| Cycle | Shared donors | Gifts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 165 | 217 | $348K |
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Jon Husted's file shows clear influence markers across multiple categories for the top funding network, placing them in the upper range of this Congress. The pattern runs above what coincidence would produce, and the methodology page documents what each category requires.
Data: FEC (Federal Election Commission) filings · 118th–119th Congress · lobbying disclosures · VoteView recorded votes
All findings derived programmatically from public records · No prior knowledge required
All findings derived programmatically from public records · No prior knowledge required