Institutional context

This member's profile: SEVERE — 90.1% of PAC dollars from tagged committees; $4,218,074 tagged IE primary pressure.

Sarah Elfreth

Rep. MD-3

SEVERE

PAC dependency

90.1%

Share of PAC dollars from tagged committees (2024 cycle).

Tagged / total PAC

$4,223,792 / $4,687,817

Numerator and denominator for the dependency ratio — every line links to FEC.

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 100% of House colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
United Democracy Project	C00799031	$4,218,792	Receipts · Committee
American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC	C00797670	$5,000	Receipts · Committee

Score rule: influence_formula_v1

Margin test

Tagged PAC support exceeded this race's victory margin.

Tagged PAC $4,223,792 vs 85,495-vote general election margin (49.4×). Correlation ≠ causation — both figures link to primary sources.

Post–Oct 7 delta

PAC dependency ratio before vs after 7 Oct 2023 (PAS2 transaction dates, 2024 cycle).

99.9%

Pre–Oct 7

1.1%

Post–Oct 7

-98.8pp

Change

Influence stack

Layer toggles

Default ON: direct PAC + documented IE. LDA and FARA live in separate sections — we never merge buckets.

Direct PACOn
Objective
FEC committee → candidate contributions (PAS2 bulk). Default ON.
LDA lobbying
Fuzzy match
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings — confidence-scored member links. Separate bucket.
Open →
FARA foreign gov
Separate tab
Foreign-agent registration spend — never merged with domestic PAC totals.
Open →

Screenshot-ready receipt — OG image at /share/E000301.svg

PAC dependency90

Primary pressure (tagged IE)

$4,218,074

Support $4,218,074 · Oppose $0

Influence Mixer

Sliders re-weight the editorial composite for Sarah Elfreth. Facts do not change — only the formula mix.

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Live composite

SEVERE

Severity is an editorial composite from public records.See the math →