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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Cook Partisan Voting Index: D+39
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Citizenship Rate: 90.9%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median Age: 41.5
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Asian Population Share: 19.2%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic Population Share: 25%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: White (Non-Hispanic) Share: 47.8%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Foreign-Born Population: 23.3%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Bachelor's Degree or Higher: 47.9%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median Property Value: $1,110,000
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership Rate: 64.7%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty Rate: 8.61%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median Household Income: $126,610
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Santa Cruz County Measure K — Affordable Housing Bond (2024) (2024) — passed, margin 67%-33%
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: California Proposition 33 — Expand Local Rent Control (2024) (2024) — failed, margin 62%-38%
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: California Proposition 3 — Marriage Rights Protections (2024) (2024) — passed, margin 63%-37%
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 72 (Accommodation and Food Services) (share 0.093)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 44-45 (Retail Trade) (share 0.101)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 31-33 (Manufacturing) (share 0.109)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 54 (Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) (share 0.124)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 (Health Care and Social Assistance) (share 0.124)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Monterey Bay Aquarium (500 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Driscoll's (agriculture/berries) (2500 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System (3000 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: UC Santa Cruz (6000 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] District summary: California's 19th Congressional District encompasses the Central Coast from Santa Cruz County south through portions of San Jose, Monterey County, San Luis Obispo County, and beyond. The district serves approximately 745,177 residents and is a majority-minority district with 51.8% White, 25% Hispanic, and 19.5% Asian residents. Median household income is $126,610 — well above the national median — but the district also contains significant agricultural communities with lower incomes. The homeownership rate is 64.7% with a median property value of $1.11 million. 47.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and 23.3% of residents are foreign-born. The economy is anchored by healthcare, professional and technical services, manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism. Major educational institutions include UC Santa Cruz and California State University Monterey Bay. The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+39 and Democrats enjoy a 20+ point registration advantage. Panetta has held the seat since 2017.
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Voted nay on H.R.2056 (District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act) on 2025-06-12: Panetta voted NO with Democrats against forcing D.C. to cooperate with ICE. This aligned with immigrant-rights advocates and defenders of D.C. home rule, contradicting the pattern of his other 2025 D.C. votes where he joined the GOP majority. Foreign-born residents make up 23.3% of his district.
Date: 2025-06-12
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[statement] Panetta represents a solidly Democratic district (D+39) that elected him to champion progressive values including civil rights and self-governance. PG Progressives noted 'for a Democrat in a solidly blue district to repeatedly join Republicans in undermining self-governance and expanding the carceral state is... one of Panetta's most disturbing patterns of 2025.'
Date: 2025-12-11
Added: 02 May 2026
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[vote] Panetta voted YES on five Republican bills that overrode D.C. self-governance and expanded carceral policy in 2025 (H.R. 884, H.R. 2096, H.R. 4922, H.R. 5107, H.R. 5214), joining the GOP majority to clamp down on voting rights and expand criminalization in the District.
Date: 2025-11-19
Added: 02 May 2026
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[statement] Panetta stated he wants to 'limit the impacts of Israel's military campaign on peaceful civilians in Gaza' and supported 'pinpoint and targeted operations' rather than broad military action.
Date: 2023-11-02
Added: 02 May 2026
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[vote] Panetta voted for the Israel Security Supplemental (H.R. 8034) on April 20, 2024 providing $26 billion in military aid to Israel, and signed an open letter attacking South Africa's ICJ genocide case as 'unfounded' and 'defamatory' on January 23, 2024. AIPAC had sent him a $143,055 windfall on December 31, 2023.
Date: 2024-04-20
Added: 02 May 2026
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[statement] At a 2025 town hall, Panetta defended receiving AIPAC money by saying he uses the funds to help other Democrats get elected and that he 'is not influenced by the hundreds of thousands of dollars he receives.'
Date: 2025-10-20
Added: 02 May 2026
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[disclosure] In the 2023-2024 cycle, 52.31% of Panetta's campaign funds ($1,368,471) came from PAC contributions, including from defense contractors (General Dynamics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon), insurance PACs ($162,500), and agricultural business PACs ($216,250).
Date: 2024-06-21
Added: 02 May 2026
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[platform] Panetta's 2016 campaign pledge: 'I won't take any money-not even 1 penny-from Wall Street or corporate PACs. Congress has been up for sale for too long.'
Date: 2016-10-01
Added: 02 May 2026
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Panetta operates JIMMY PAC (Joining Ideas to Motivate Movement for You), a Leadership PAC that gave 98.62% of its contributions to Democrats in the 2023-2024 cycle.
Date: 2024-12-31
Added: 02 May 2026
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Panetta's disclosed net worth ranges from $30,036 to $496,999 (2018) with liabilities of $515,002 to $1,050,000 primarily due to a mortgage on his Carmel home, resulting in a possible negative net worth. Quiver Quantitative estimated it at $398.5K as of May 2026.
Date: 2018-12-31
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Panetta accepted PAC contributions from defense contractors including General Dynamics, General Electric, Honeywell, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, per FEC records cited by the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Date: 2018-12-27
Added: 02 May 2026
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Panetta's top donor sectors include Finance, Insurance & Real Estate at $623,323, Agribusiness at $276,721, Ideological/Single-Issue at $326,866, and Defense at $79,525.
Date: 2024-06-21
Added: 02 May 2026
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AIPAC contributed $204,700 to Panetta in the 2023-2024 cycle, including a single Q4 2023 surge of $143,055.23 — the largest single donation he had ever received. Before September 2023, Panetta had received just $7,900 total from AIPAC across his entire congressional career since 2016.
Date: 2023-12-31
Added: 02 May 2026
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Panetta's top contributing industry for 2023-2024 was Pro-Israel at $244,296, followed by Real Estate at $200,500, Insurance at $197,485, and Retired at $112,919.
Date: 2024-06-21
Added: 02 May 2026
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Panetta raised $2,607,272 in the 2023-2024 cycle with PAC contributions at 52.31% ($1,368,471), large individual contributions at 44.33% ($1,159,885), and small donors at just 3.35% ($87,781).
Date: 2024-06-30
Added: 02 May 2026
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