Candidates targeted
2
races with outside spending
pac · CA
Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership
An outside-spending committee: $97K in independent expenditures ($47K supporting, $49K opposing candidates) - reported to the FEC, and by law not contributions to any campaign. Data through August 2026.
- $97K
- Independent expenditures
- $47K
- Supporting
- $49K
- Opposing
The verdict
Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership is an outside-spending committee: it made $97K in independent expenditures across 2 candidates, mostly opposing ($49K).
- $47K
- spent supporting candidates
- $49K
- spent opposing candidates
Supporting
$47K
independent expenditures for
Opposing
$49K
independent expenditures against
Independent expenditures by Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership
Money this committee spent independently to support or oppose candidates, reported to the FEC, and by law not contributions to any campaign and not coordinated with it.
- $97K
- Total outside spending
- $47K
- Supporting
- $49K
- Opposing
| Candidate | Supporting | Opposing |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Friedman | - | $49K |
| Anthony Portantino | $47K | - |
Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership's influence activity score
Each tracked channel is percentile-scored against its own national benchmark, then averaged across only the channels that apply to a pac -- not one dollar sum where contract size can drown out everything else.
Overall activity score
F
8/100
Campaign contributions
F
9/100 · $0
Lobbying expenditures
F
7/100 · $0
Federal contracts
F
2/100 · $0
Independent expenditures
F
12/100 · $97K
What Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership's recorded federal activity shows
Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership is an outside-spending committee: rather than contributing to candidates' committees, it reported $97K in independent expenditures to the Federal Election Commission - $47K advocating for candidates and $49K opposing them, across 2 races. By law these expenditures are made independently of, and uncoordinated with, any campaign, and they are not subject to contribution limits, which is how a single committee can deploy this scale of money. They are reported here separately from contributions because they are a fundamentally different mechanism of political influence.
Frequently asked questions
How much recorded federal activity does Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership have?
Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership has no campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures, or federal contracts on record in this dataset, sourced from FEC filings, Senate LDA disclosures, and USAspending.gov records for 2023-2024.
Where does the data about Residents for Strong, Ethical Leadership come from?
PlainInfluence aggregates data from three federal sources: the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for campaign contributions, the Senate Office of Public Records for lobbying disclosures under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, and USAspending.gov for federal contract awards. Data covers the 2023-2024 reporting period.
What is "combined activity" and how is it calculated?
Combined activity (internally total_influence) is a convenience sum of three different official populations: FEC campaign contributions (2024 election cycle), Senate LDA lobbying expenditures (2023 and 2024 filing years, summed), and USAspending federal contract obligations (fiscal year 2024). It is a cross-dataset discovery index only, not causation, effectiveness, or political influence. Channel dollars are shown side by side; see /methodology#cross-stage-populations.
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Every figure traces to a real FEC, LDA, or USASpending filing; contribution and lobbying totals are not the same as spending on any specific outcome.
According to the Federal Election Commission and the Senate Office of Public Records, more than 14,000 political action committees and over 12,500 lobbying registrants filed disclosure reports covering the 2024 election cycle and calendar-year 2024 lobbying period respectively. Every figure on this page comes from official FEC, Senate LDA, or USAspending.gov filings, described on our methodology page. Data was last updated in August 2026.
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