PITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE

vendor · #161 of 310 in Pennsylvania · U.S. Senate · 2024all Schedule E rows for this payee on fec.gov ↗
filed asPITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE

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

Paid in this race
$3K
0.0% of outside spending
Buys
5
Oct 22, 2024 – Nov 4, 2024
Spenders
2
committees reporting payments
Top medium
mail
74% of dollars

By medium

digitalmail
mail 74%
$2K 2 buys
digital 26%
$750 3 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
JDCA PAC$1,4654
DMFI PAC$1,4301

Candidates named on the buys

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

for Bob Casey $3K

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 4, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$250digitalPITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 31, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$250digitalPITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 25, 2024DMFI PACSBob Casey$1,430mailPITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE · PRINT ADVERTISING: PAID 9/30, SEE SCHEDULE BFEC ↗
Oct 25, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$715mailPITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE · PRINT ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗
Oct 22, 2024JDCA PACSBob Casey$250digitalPITTSBURGH JEWISH CHRONICLE · DIGITAL ADS (ESTIMATE)FEC ↗

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