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Has Lindsay James taken corporate PAC money?

No assessment. Her committee took $500 from a corporation's PAC in December 2025, before the earliest dated pledge found, and had not returned it as of June 30, 2026.

Lindsay James

Corporate PAC money

No assessment

What they say

Her campaign says she will never take corporate PAC money.

“will never take corporate PAC money”

What the record shows ·

Her committee took $500 from O'Neill and Associates PAC on December 14, 2025. That PAC's latest statement of organization, filed in 2009, says it is the separate fund of a corporation, O'Neill and Associates of Boston. The gift came before the earliest dated pledge found, on April 2, 2026; a pledge before the gift is not established. Her reports through June 30, 2026 show it was not returned. No other committee that gave to her is recorded by the FEC as a corporation's PAC; the largest share of her committee money is from labor unions.

Why there is no assessment here

The gift was taken before the earliest dated pledge found and was not returned through June 30, 2026. Her report due October 15, the first that could show a refund, has not been read.

Limit: One $500 gift out of $217,905 from committees, taken before her earliest dated pledge found and kept after it. The FEC's searchable record lists no type for this PAC; its paper filing does.

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  1. End DC Corruptionhttps://www.lindsayforiowa.com/issues/ending-dc-corruption

    Lindsay for Iowa · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Campaign issue page. Its first promise is that she will never take corporate PAC money; it also backs a stock-trading ban, a lobbying ban for former members and term limits. Its lines about her opponent are out of scope here.

    candidate statement

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  2. LINDSAY FOR IOWA, Year-End report 2025 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Published Jan 31, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    The filed report, in the FEC's electronic format, received January 31, 2026. Its line-11C schedule lists $500 from O'Neill and Associates PAC, 31 New Chardon St, Boston, on December 14, 2025. Her later reports through June 30, 2026 (April Quarterly, Pre-Primary, July Quarterly) do not name the PAC, and OpenFEC shows no refund to any committee in them except $250 to Iowa People's PAC on May 20, 2026.

    fec filing

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  3. O'Neill and Associates PAC, Statement of Organization (FEC Form 1), amended November 4, 2009 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Published Nov 4, 2009 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    The PAC's latest Statement of Organization (sha256 7d65c662...). Page 2 checks the box saying it is a separate segregated fund whose connected organization is a corporation, and that it is a lobbyist/registrant PAC. Page 3 names the connected organization as O'Neill and Associates, of the same Boston address. The boxes are handwritten and were read from the page image; OpenFEC's committee record carries no organization type for it. The PAC has filed no FEC report since its 2024 year-end report (received February 28, 2025); OpenFEC's filing list shows only FEC notices for each 2025 and 2026 report since, so what it gave in 2025 is on her report but not on its own.

    fec filing

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  4. End Citizens United Endorses State Representative Lindsay James for Iowa's 2nd Congressional Districthttps://www.lindsayforiowa.com/news/lindsay-james-calls-out-washington-republicans-for-letting-snap-benefits-lapse

    Lindsay for Iowa · Published Apr 2, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign release dated April 2, 2026 (the page's slug names a different release). It quotes her: "I'm rejecting corporate PAC money". It is the earliest dated corporate-PAC pledge found. Her earlier releases (February 23, March 12 and March 16, 2026) do not mention corporate PACs; Wayback Machine captures of her home page from September 2025 to March 2026 carry no corporate-PAC language; and the issue page with the pledge is first captured on May 13, 2026.

    candidate statement

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  5. LINDSAY FOR IOWA, receipts from committeeshttps://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00916452&two_year_transaction_period=2026&is_individual=false

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Lines 11B, 11C and 12 for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026, read with tools/fec-money/money.py on October 1, 2026: 4, 61 and 7 rows, each line reconciled to the committee's summary. One $500 line-11C row is from O'Neill and Associates PAC (C00362210), which the FEC's committee record lists with no organization type.

    fec filing

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  6. LINDSAY FOR IOWA, July Quarterly 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Principal campaign committee, May 14 to June 30, 2026, received July 15, 2026. Read from OpenFEC on October 1, 2026 as the latest report, not amended. Independently re-read linked PDF October 7: detailed-summary pages 3/4, lines 16/22, Column B supplies election-cycle receipts/disbursements. Column A is only May 14-June 30. Summary page 2 cash/debt amounts are unchanged. Correction replaces period totals previously labeled as cycle totals; October 7 OpenFEC latest-report readback confirms this report identity and no amendment flag.

    fec filing

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