Receipt summary — not a verdict

This member's profile: HIGH — 11.0% of PAC dollars from tagged committees. Correlation ≠ causation — the filings are still real.

Mark B. Messmer

Rep. IN-8

Principal committee C00867218 · Schedule A →

HIGH

PAC dependency

11.0%

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

Tagged / total PAC

$302,937 / $2,748,133

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

Peer context

More PAC-dependent on tagged committees than 99% of House colleagues.

Tagged committee	FEC ID	Amount	Source
American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC	C00797670	$302,937	Receipts · Committee

Score rule: influence_formula_v1

Margin test 🍌

Tagged PAC $ exceeded the vote margin. The math has no respect for decorum.

Tagged PAC $302,937 vs 124,630-vote general election margin (2.4×). Correlation ≠ causation — both figures link to primary sources. Your monkey brain will draw conclusions anyway.

Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives →

Post–Oct 7 delta

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

0.0%

Pre–Oct 7

12.9%

Post–Oct 7

+12.9pp

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 →

Share card

Screenshot-ready receipt — OG image at /share/M001233.png

Influence breakdown

PAC dependency11

Committee relevance (Israel/aid/arming)25

Influence Mixer

Argue with the formula like a drunk poli-sci major

Your priors move, the FEC filings don't.

Sliders re-weight the editorial composite for Mark B. Messmer. The filings are fixed; your priors are adjustable — like Congress, but honest about it. Top-level split stays 55% electoral / 45% legislative.

Electoral — PAC dependencyElectoral — primary / IE pressureLegislative — pinned vote alignmentLegislative — committee / arms relevance

Live composite (monkey-adjusted)

HIGH

Schedule A earmarked conduit (tagged PACs)

FEC bulk itcont earmarks via tagged committees (2024 cycle) — semi-objective bucket; never merged into PAC dependency %.

$250 · 1 sample lines indexed

$250 · American Israel Public Affairs Committee PAC

LD-203 lobbyist conduit contributions

Registrant/lobbyist-hosted contributions to committees honoring this member — lda.gov LD-203 filings since 2023. Separate bucket from FEC Schedule A PAC receipts above.

$10,000 across 2 itemized lines · American Israel Public Affairs Committee

$5,000 · 2026-03-03 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeMESSMER FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →
$5,000 · 2024-10-25 · American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeMESSMER FOR CONGRESSLD-203 filing →

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