CONNECTION STRATEGY LLC

vendor · #25 of 310 in Pennsylvania · U.S. Senate · 2024all Schedule E rows for this payee on fec.gov ↗
filed asCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC

inferred · rule case/punctuation/suffix normalisation + token-set ≥0.92 (numeric tokens must match); aliases filefec.gov ↗

Paid in this race
$487K
0.2% of outside spending
Buys
17
Sep 5, 2024 – Nov 1, 2024
Spenders
2
committees reporting payments
Top medium
phones
100% of dollars

By medium

phones
phones 100%
$487K 17 buys

Medium is classified from the purpose the spender filed; the FEC does not record which buy placed which ad.

inferred · rule Medium is classified from the purpose string the spender filed on Schedule E, by an ordered keyword table (first match wins, keywords matched at word starts): production: produc, creative, design, videograph, photograph, filming; digital: digital, online, internet, web, social, streaming, email, youtube, facebook, google, meta, gif; radio: radio; tv: tv, television, broadcast, cable, media buy, media placement; mail: mail, postage, postcard, print; phones: phone, text, sms, robocall, call, dial, teleconferenc; consulting: poll, research, consult, strateg, list, targeting, voter file; field: canvass, door, field, gotv; other: no match. The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad.Schedule E fields ↗

Who paid this vendor

SpenderPaidBuys
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND$358,6918
AMERICAN CROSSROADS$128,5509

Candidates named on the buys

Targeting, not money: the spender declares support or opposition on each Schedule E row; the candidate receives nothing.

against Bob Casey $487K

Ads linked to this vendor

None. An ad is linked only when a person verified it from a source naming both, or when this was the only digital vendor its sponsor paid in the week before and while it ran — the FEC does not record which buy placed which ad, so this is not evidence that the vendor made no ads.

Every buy

DateSpenderS/OTargetAmountMediumFiled payee · purposeSource
Nov 1, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$27,766phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · PHONE CALLSFEC ↗
Nov 1, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$8,912phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 11/01/2024FEC ↗
Oct 31, 2024SENATE LEADERSHIP FUNDOBob Casey$37,408phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/31/2024FEC ↗
Oct 25, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$23,580phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · PHONE CALLS - FILED ON 10/28/2024FEC ↗
Oct 25, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$8,740phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/26/2024FEC ↗
Oct 25, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$4,522phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/25/2024FEC ↗
Oct 24, 2024SENATE LEADERSHIP FUNDOBob Casey$40,083phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/24/2024FEC ↗
Oct 18, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$21,920phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/18/2024FEC ↗
Oct 18, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$14,666phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · PHONE CALLS - FILED ON 10/21/2024FEC ↗
Oct 18, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$9,057phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/19/2024FEC ↗
Oct 17, 2024SENATE LEADERSHIP FUNDOBob Casey$41,537phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/17/2024FEC ↗
Oct 14, 2024AMERICAN CROSSROADSOBob Casey$9,386phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/14/2024FEC ↗
Oct 11, 2024SENATE LEADERSHIP FUNDOBob Casey$44,904phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 10/12/2024FEC ↗
Sep 26, 2024SENATE LEADERSHIP FUNDOBob Casey$45,744phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 09/26/2024FEC ↗
Sep 19, 2024SENATE LEADERSHIP FUNDOBob Casey$47,271phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 09/19/2024FEC ↗
Sep 12, 2024SENATE LEADERSHIP FUNDOBob Casey$49,319phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 09/12/2024FEC ↗
Sep 5, 2024SENATE LEADERSHIP FUNDOBob Casey$52,425phonesCONNECTION STRATEGY LLC · TEXT MESSAGING - FILED ON 09/05/2024FEC ↗

Every Schedule E independent expenditure names a payee. Payee strings are normalised (case, punctuation, legal suffixes, token order), near-duplicates are folded with a difflib ratio ≥ 0.92 when their numeric tokens match, and hand alias rows from data/hand/<race>/vendor_aliases.json override the rule. Medium is classified from the purpose the spender filed (ordered keyword table in campaign_commons/vendors.py). The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad: vendor ↔ ad links are date-window adjacency (or single-digital-vendor inference) from campaign_commons.ads_enrich, each with its basis, and are only `verified` when a person found a source naming both. Totals are the filed amounts, grouped, never re-estimated.

Money and positions are shown side by side because they are public records about the same person. Proximity is not causation; we make no claim that any contribution produced any action.

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