Political Operatives
Profiles of 42,146 operatives surfaced from FEC candidate filings + Form 1 committee officer rosters. Includes 431 cross-committee operatives — people who serve as treasurer or officer at 3+ committees, often a signal of a professional compliance practice or a coordinated PAC ecosystem.
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Bradley T. Crate
GOP treasurer-of-record for 100+ committees. The ego network is the textbook example of a cross-committee operative.
Open in new tab ↗ TREASURER · MED CONFThomas Datwyler
Driscoll Victory Fund treasurer; 320+ tied filings. Strong test for the top-N + sort filter on the explorer.
Open in new tab ↗ TREASURER · MED CONFSalvatore Purpura
Tricia for Congress treasurer, 530+ tied filings — the highest-volume name-resolved person we have.
Open in new tab ↗Strategic landscape — top 250 people
Each bubble is one person. X = total spend in the selected window. Y = payers. Size = average $/payer. Color = partisan lean (blue = Democratic, red = Republican, grey = mixed / non-partisan). Lean is derived from the entity's clientele — including super-PAC clients whose party we infer from their Schedule E targets. Drag the slider to change the window. Hover any bubble for details — click for the profile.
View as table (5yr window, mobile-friendly)
| Firm | 5yr spend | Clients | $/client avg | Growth vs prior 5yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jasmine Zamani | $2.5M | 38 | $66K | +136% |
| Lori B. Lafave | $1.2M | 8 | $155K | +3% |
| Lori Lafave | $1.1M | 11 | $96K | -13% |
| Lisa Presta | $1.4M | 12 | $116K | +60% |
| Chris Trull | $1.1M | 6 | $191K | +179% |
| Salvatore Purpura | $1.0M | 28 | $36K | +129% |
| Stefanie Conahan | $838K | 5 | $168K | +62% |
| Steven Fitzer | $422K | 9 | $47K | -45% |
| Jacqueline Forte-Mackay | $661K | 1 | $661K | +30% |
| Elizabeth Banks | $897K | 12 | $75K | +253% |
| Ryan Borkenhagen | $578K | 1 | $578K | +46% |
| Stacy Mason | $748K | 2 | $374K | +423% |
| Erik Ruselowski | $624K | 1 | $624K | +144% |
| David Winston | $461K | 1 | $461K | +22% |
| Regina Wallace-Jones | $827K | 1 | $827K | — |
| Kimberly A. Kauffman | $508K | 4 | $127K | +61% |
| George Gilmer | $786K | 1 | $786K | — |
| Samantha A. Gross | $445K | 2 | $223K | +32% |
| Ruby Sarron | $532K | 1 | $532K | +113% |
| Cooper Teboe | $254K | 2 | $127K | -50% |
| Donald Brownlee | $403K | 3 | $134K | +21% |
| Milly C. Velez-Cooper | $434K | 1 | $434K | +55% |
| Ronnie Ann Cohen | $460K | 1 | $460K | +123% |
| Kris Kohler | $519K | 1 | $519K | +302% |
| Jerri Lynn Ortiz | $417K | 2 | $209K | +97% |
| Oliver Cappleman | $407K | 5 | $81K | +84% |
| Madison Faupel | $605K | 2 | $302K | +2484% |
| Michelle Tovar | $364K | 3 | $121K | +56% |
| Claude Taylor | $337K | 1 | $337K | +31% |
| Tamara Remy | $533K | 2 | $267K | +838% |
| William Van Nuys | $485K | 1 | $485K | +393% |
| Kenneth Martin | $407K | 2 | $204K | +147% |
| Erika R Grace | $328K | 1 | $328K | +35% |
| Samantha Dizon | $374K | 1 | $374K | +92% |
| Ivan Sanchez | $418K | 2 | $209K | +184% |
| Meagan Petersen | $298K | 1 | $298K | +12% |
| Rachel Aiello | $336K | 1 | $336K | +47% |
| Alli Peters | $526K | 3 | $175K | +1272% |
| Julie Merz | $556K | 1 | $556K | +22451% |
| J. Lauren Lalonde | $412K | 2 | $206K | +189% |
| Maureen Garde | $248K | 2 | $124K | -16% |
| Maria Bilbao | $466K | 1 | $466K | +646% |
| Cherokee Belval | $332K | 1 | $332K | +82% |
| Tom Strong-Grinsell | $484K | 2 | $242K | +1725% |
| John Holtkamp | $352K | 2 | $176K | +126% |
| Jocelyn Tyree | $348K | 2 | $174K | +130% |
| Kimberly Kauffman | $417K | 8 | $52K | +443% |
| Kevin Lata | $419K | 2 | $209K | +618% |
| Yan Cheung | $467K | 1 | $467K | — |
| Miquel Smith | $459K | 1 | $459K | — |
Showing top 50 by 5yr spend; full 250-vendor view with windowed slider is in the interactive chart above.
By primary role
Top 50 most-active operatives
| # | Name | Role | Primary affiliation | Source counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salvatore Purpura Probable | Treasurer | TRICIA FOR CONGRESS, INC. | 6 Treasurer · 527 Paid |
| 2 | Barbara Boyd Unverified | Treasurer | PROMETHEAN PAC | 1 Treasurer · 530 Paid |
| 3 | Jasmine Zamani Unverified | Treasurer | DEMOCRATIC ACTION NETWORK | 1 Treasurer · 522 Paid |
| 4 | Oliver Cappleman Unverified | Treasurer | VETERANS AID PAC | 3 Treasurer · 412 Paid |
| 5 | Chris Trull Unverified | Consultant | — | 374 Paid |
| 6 | Thomas Datwyler Probable | Treasurer | DRISCOLL VICTORY FUND | 317 Treasurer · 4 Paid |
| 7 | Paul Kilgore Verified | Treasurer | EMB NOMINEE FUND TX-34 | 258 Treasurer |
| 8 | Amy Storey Unverified | Consultant | — | 240 Paid |
| 9 | Joseph Mr Wierzbicki Unverified | Consultant | — | 229 Paid |
| 10 | Eric Swalwell Unverified | Treasurer | REMEDY PAC | 2 Treasurer · 216 Paid |
| 11 | Neil Parrott Unverified | Consultant | — | 217 Paid |
| 12 | Karly Moen Unverified | Consultant | — | 215 Paid |
| 13 | Justin Chermol Unverified | Consultant | — | 205 Paid |
| 14 | James Clarke Unverified | Consultant | — | 204 Paid |
| 15 | Linda Carman Unverified | Consultant | — | 203 Paid |
| 16 | Lisa Presta Unverified | Consultant | — | 200 Paid |
| 17 | Claude Taylor Unverified | Treasurer | MAD DOG PAC | 1 Treasurer · 196 Paid |
| 18 | Adrienne Viarengo Unverified | Consultant | — | 194 Paid |
| 19 | Neeharika Simha Unverified | Consultant | — | 194 Paid |
| 20 | Lisa Lisker Unverified | Treasurer | SUPPORT TO ENSURE VICTORY EVERYWHERE PAC-STEVE PAC | 192 Treasurer |
| 21 | Barry Feldman Unverified | Consultant | — | 192 Paid |
| 22 | Brian Fallon Unverified | Consultant | — | 187 Paid |
| 23 | Elizabeth Howell Unverified | Consultant | — | 187 Paid |
| 24 | Steven Fitzer Unverified | Treasurer | TERESA LEGER FERNANDEZ VICTORY FUND | 2 Treasurer · 182 Paid |
| 25 | Quentin Fulks Unverified | Consultant | — | 180 Paid |
| 26 | Brian Herman Unverified | Treasurer | PEOPLE4AMERICA FEDERAL COMMITTEE | 1 Treasurer · 178 Paid |
| 27 | Victoria Mcgroary Unverified | Consultant | — | 179 Paid |
| 28 | Jay Petterson Unverified | Treasurer | LUZ RIVAS FOR CONGRESS | 174 Treasurer |
| 29 | Kimberly Kauffman Unverified | Consultant | — | 174 Paid |
| 30 | Tom Kelly Unverified | Consultant | — | 174 Paid |
| 31 | Stephanie M Nelson Unverified | Consultant | — | 173 Paid |
| 32 | Dylan Hewitt Unverified | Candidate | C00896910 | 1 Candidate · 1 Treasurer · 170 Paid |
| 33 | Kimberly A. Kauffman Unverified | Consultant | — | 171 Paid |
| 34 | Dylan Verderame Unverified | Consultant | — | 170 Paid |
| 35 | Stefanie Conahan Unverified | Consultant | — | 169 Paid |
| 36 | Annalise Pflueger Unverified | Consultant | — | 166 Paid |
| 37 | Evan Brown Unverified | Consultant | — | 166 Paid |
| 38 | Louisa Janssen Unverified | Consultant | — | 165 Paid |
| 39 | Kris Kohler Unverified | Consultant | — | 163 Paid |
| 40 | Nicholas Kutryb Unverified | Consultant | — | 163 Paid |
| 41 | Josh Slaughter Unverified | Consultant | — | 162 Paid |
| 42 | Coby Eiss Unverified | Consultant | — | 160 Paid |
| 43 | J. Lauren Lalonde Unverified | Consultant | — | 159 Paid |
| 44 | Rachel Berkson Unverified | Consultant | — | 159 Paid |
| 45 | David Bauer Unverified | Treasurer | MCCLINTOCK SCHWEIKERT JFC II | 5 Treasurer · 153 Paid |
| 46 | Aridia Espinal Unverified | Consultant | — | 158 Paid |
| 47 | Malik Haughton Unverified | Consultant | — | 158 Paid |
| 48 | Andrea Colmenero Unverified | Consultant | — | 157 Paid |
| 49 | Christopher Lopresti Unverified | Consultant | — | 157 Paid |
| 50 | Samuel E. Bart Unverified | Consultant | — | 157 Paid |
People rendered from FEC candidate filings + committee_officers (Form 1 ingest). Identity-resolution across spelling variants is in progress — some operatives may currently appear under multiple slugs. Cross-committee patterns reflect FEC-reported names; alias merging coming next.