IN PURSUIT OF LLC

vendor · #9 of 310 in Pennsylvania · U.S. Senate · 2024all Schedule E rows for this payee on fec.gov ↗
filed asIN PURSUIT OF LLC

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

Paid in this race
$8.2M
3.5% of outside spending
Buys
14
Feb 29, 2024 – Nov 21, 2024
Spenders
1
committees reporting payments
Top medium
TV
76% of dollars

By medium

TVdigital
TV 76%
$6.2M 8 buys
digital 24%
$2.0M 6 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

Candidates named on the buys

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

for Dave McCormick $4.6Magainst Bob Casey $3.6M

Ads linked to this vendor

5 ads from 1 spender who paid this vendor. The FEC does not record which buy placed which ad; each link below says what it rests on.

inferred5 ads · derived by a stated rule, not on any filing
  • AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION · ran Jun 4, 2024 – Jul 8, 2024 · Only digital vendor AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION paid during this ad's run window (ran jun 4, 2024 – jul 8, 2024, counting buys dated up to 7 days before first shown) — inferred, not filed. AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION reported $500,000 in digital buys to IN PURSUIT OF LLC; Google ads are digital placements.source ↗
  • AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION · ran Apr 9, 2024 – May 1, 2024 · Only digital vendor AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION paid during this ad's run window (ran apr 9, 2024 – may 1, 2024, counting buys dated up to 7 days before first shown) — inferred, not filed. AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION reported $500,000 in digital buys to IN PURSUIT OF LLC; Google ads are digital placements.source ↗
  • AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION · ran Jun 4, 2024 – Jul 8, 2024 · Only digital vendor AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION paid during this ad's run window (ran jun 4, 2024 – jul 8, 2024, counting buys dated up to 7 days before first shown) — inferred, not filed. AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION reported $500,000 in digital buys to IN PURSUIT OF LLC; Google ads are digital placements.source ↗
  • AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION · ran May 7, 2024 – Jun 1, 2024 · Only digital vendor AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION paid during this ad's run window (ran may 7, 2024 – jun 1, 2024, counting buys dated up to 7 days before first shown) — inferred, not filed. AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION reported $250,000 in digital buys to IN PURSUIT OF LLC; Google ads are digital placements.source ↗
  • AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION · ran Apr 9, 2024 – May 1, 2024 · Only digital vendor AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION paid during this ad's run window (ran apr 9, 2024 – may 1, 2024, counting buys dated up to 7 days before first shown) — inferred, not filed. AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION reported $500,000 in digital buys to IN PURSUIT OF LLC; Google ads are digital placements.source ↗

Spenders in the picture: AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION. Ad spend is the range Google publishes; the vendor totals above are filed dollars. The two are never added together.

Every buy

DateSpenderS/OTargetAmountMediumFiled payee · purposeSource
Nov 21, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONOBob Casey$1,000,000TVIN PURSUIT OF LLC · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Nov 21, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONSDave McCormick$1,000,000TVIN PURSUIT OF LLC · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Sep 9, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONSDave McCormick$964,763TVIN PURSUIT OF LLC · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Sep 9, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONOBob Casey$951,013TVIN PURSUIT OF LLC · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Aug 8, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONOBob Casey$625,000TVIN PURSUIT OF LLC · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Aug 8, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONSDave McCormick$625,000TVIN PURSUIT OF LLC · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jul 11, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONSDave McCormick$750,000TVIN PURSUIT OF LLC · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jul 11, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONOBob Casey$250,000TVIN PURSUIT OF LLC · MEDIA PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jun 28, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONOBob Casey$250,000digitalIN PURSUIT OF LLC · DIGITAL AD PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Jun 28, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONSDave McCormick$250,000digitalIN PURSUIT OF LLC · DIGITAL AD PLACEMENTFEC ↗
May 1, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONSDave McCormick$250,000digitalIN PURSUIT OF LLC · DIGITAL AD PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Apr 17, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONSDave McCormick$250,000digitalIN PURSUIT OF LLC · DIGITAL AD PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Feb 29, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONOBob Casey$500,000digitalIN PURSUIT OF LLC · DIGITAL AD PLACEMENTFEC ↗
Feb 29, 2024AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTIONSDave McCormick$500,000digitalIN PURSUIT OF LLC · DIGITAL AD PLACEMENTFEC ↗

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.

Methodology