THE MONTANA WAY PAC

RepublicanLinked candidatePAC (not qualified) · Leadership PAC · Quarterly filerC00941633

Overview

Raised: $16.2K
Spent: $14.5K
Cash on hand: $1,699
Debts owed: $0

OpenFEC processed totals through Oct 14, 2026; figures change when amended reports are filed.

Raised is total receipts and Spent is total disbursements as the committee reported them; both can include transfers, loans and refunds. Cash on hand and debts are the balances at the end of the last report. The comparison is the same figure for 2023–2024.

Compliance review · No open linked indicators

Automated review indicators, not findings of a violation. Exact reported records are linked; identity is not independently verified. Reported lobbyist-bundling disclosures are not counted as issues.

Latest cycle-wide scan: Oct 18, 2026 · Index refreshed: Oct 18, 2026. Coverage is limited to loaded records and implemented checks.

Scan coverage and freshness

Receipt eligibility: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).
Integrity: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check succeeded (Oct 18, 2026).
Fundraising patterns: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).

No open indicators are linked in the published index. This is not a compliance clearance.

Across the cycle, some findings could not be linked safely to entities; ambiguous identities are withheld.

Candidate connections

Candidate campaign receiving transfers
CAIN, BRISCOE ROWELL IIIRepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · Texas · District 9
Election 2026 · Challenger · Current candidate
Receiving campaign: BRISCOE CAIN FOR CONGRESS
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H6TX09124 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle
Candidate campaign receiving transfers
LAUF, CATALINARepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · Florida · District 19

These campaigns received reported contributions or transfers from this committee during the selected cycle. This is not a complete participant list or an allocation of any individual donor's gift; other recipients may include parties and PACs.

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$13K
Unitemized individual contributions$150
Other committees$3,000

Largest itemized receipts

ZINN, RAY87% Republican · 13% unclassifiedDerived from contributions$5,000May 15, 2026
AIRBNB INC. PAC (AIRBNB PAC)Mixed activity · 50% Democratic / 50% RepublicanInferred from activity$2,500Mar 5, 2026
NUNN, ANGELARepublicanDerived from contributions$2,000HOMEMAKER · Jan 27, 2026
AMES, SUSAN

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$3,951
Contributions to committees$10.5K

Largest disbursements

MCSHANE LLC$1,000PAC STRATEGY CONSULTING · May 28, 2026
SAME DAY PROCESSING$965ACCOUNTING CONSULTING · Jul 2, 2026
SAME DAY PROCESSING$500ACCOUNTING CONSULTING · Oct 12, 2026
MCSHANE LLC$489PAC STRATEGY CONSULTING · Jun 12, 2026
SAME DAY PROCESSING$465ACCOUNTING CONSULTING · Sep 30, 2026
SAME DAY PROCESSING$300ACCOUNTING CONSULTING · May 26, 2026
SAME DAY PROCESSING$215ACCOUNTING CONSULTING · Apr 3, 2026

All spending →

Payments are reported transactions, largest first; noncash accounting entries are listed under Reconciliation, not as payments.

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month: $15.5K raised and $10.5K spent over 4 months.

Months follow the reported transaction date; itemized records only, so unitemized small-dollar giving is not in the bars.

Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph

Records

Registration

Committee type: PAC (not qualified)
Designation: Leadership PAC
Party affiliation: No party affiliation reported
Treasurer: DATWYLER, THOMAS
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: JACOBSEN
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: 502 6TH STREET · HUDSON, WI, 54016

Relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Registration evidence · 2025–2026

Reported relationships are not contributions or transfers. They do not establish that any money changed hands. The reporting committee and related entity are shown separately. Only loaded relationship types are shown; this is not a complete organization chart.

THE MONTANA WAY PACC00941633 Connected organizationJACOBSENReported name only · no identity match assumed
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 6, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC committee master: reported connected organization / affiliated committee name. This name-only field does not establish an entity identity match. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.
THE MONTANA WAY PACC00941633 Leadership PAC sponsorJACOBSEN, CHRISTIH6MT01160
FEC reportedObserved: Sep 12, 2026Registration filing: 1951397Official FEC source ↗
Current registration observation; not a historical filing-date assertion.

FEC-reported relationships

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Political alignment

Registration, linked-candidate, and disclosed money-flow evidence

Evidence-based classificationRepublicanRepublicanLinked candidate

FEC registration: PAC (not qualified); no party affiliation reported. Classification basis: Linked candidate. This describes disclosed financial activity, not an official party registration or ideological score. The figures below separately preserve the filer’s Schedule E support and opposition designations.

No candidate support/oppose spending foundThis cycle has no locally ingested Schedule E rows for this committee. Registration, linked-candidate, committee-transfer, and recipient-reported conduit evidence can still establish the alignment shown above.

$0 supporting · $0 opposing · 0 rowsOfficial FEC outside spending ↗

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

Sources

Largest itemized receipts

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest disbursements

Over time

Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

Over time

Cash, assets & liabilities

Money network