{"id":830,"name":"Alissa Ellman","first_name":"ALISSA","last_name":"ELLMAN","middle_name":null,"suffix":null,"bioguide_id":null,"fec_candidate_id":"H6NY24219","ocd_person_id":null,"govtrack_id":null,"opensecrets_id":null,"votesmart_id":null,"office_id":2,"party":"Democrat","status":"candidate","photo_url":null,"website":null,"campaign_url":"HTTPS://WWW.ELLMANFORCONGRESS.COM/","email":"DECLAN@FHSTRATEGIES.ORG;ZACTHEBARD@GMAIL.COM","phone":null,"social_twitter":null,"social_facebook":"https://facebook.com/EllmanforCongress","social_instagram":"alissaellman4congress","social_youtube":null,"state":"NY","district":"24","city":null,"assumed_office":null,"term_end":null,"born":null,"source":"fec","source_url":"https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H6NY24219/","source_updated":"2026-08-31 08:01:48","first_seen":"2026-05-09 07:51:53","last_seen":"2026-06-19 11:24:10","created_at":"2026-05-09 07:51:53","updated_at":"2026-06-19 11:24:10","canonical_id":null,"fec_checked_at":"2026-09-16 07:04:43","contact_email":null,"contact_source_url":null,"contact_captured_at":null,"office_name":"U.S. Representative","level":"federal","branch":"legislative","office_chamber":"house","positions":[{"topic":"Healthcare","stance":"to suffer from cancer, diabetes, and heart disease than most Americans. Alissa knows that without healthcare, treatment can be out of reach for much of the district. Claudia Tenney voted for the Repub","detail":"to suffer from cancer, diabetes, and heart disease than most Americans. Alissa knows that without healthcare, treatment can be out of reach for much of the district. Claudia Tenney voted for the Republican budget bill that will kick 31,000 NY-24 residents off of Medicaid and close three rural hospitals. People will die. We need a congresswoman who expands access to healthcare, not one who takes it away from their constituents who need it the most. Alissa will vote to protect and expand Medicaid coverage to make sure everyone in the district has good quality and affordable healthcare. Cost","source_url":"https://www.ellmanforcongress.com/issues","source_date":"2026-07-22"},{"topic":"Economy","stance":"between earning good wages and being a good parent. Alissa will also work to make sure to aid small businesses, invest in home repair programs, and expand the low-income housing tax credit. While Clau","detail":"between earning good wages and being a good parent. Alissa will also work to make sure to aid small businesses, invest in home repair programs, and expand the low-income housing tax credit. While Claudia Tenney is sitting at her lake house and taking donations from billionaires, most New Yorkers are struggling to make ends meet. Alissa will take calls from her constituents, not from billionaires. Infrastructure Alissa grew up rural in Houghton, NY - a hamlet of less than 2,000 people. She knows that the infrastructure in our community is lacking. Alissa will secure funding to expand","source_url":"https://www.ellmanforcongress.com/issues","source_date":"2026-07-22"},{"topic":"Education","stance":"bus networks - allowing even those in the most far flung communities access to hospitals, trade schools, colleges, and community centers. Alissa will also work to secure funds for improvements to our ","detail":"bus networks - allowing even those in the most far flung communities access to hospitals, trade schools, colleges, and community centers. Alissa will also work to secure funds for improvements to our water systems. Alissa will also work with all of our communities to help secure federal grants to repair and improve our infrastructure from the ground up. Claudia Tenney continues to slash the funding we need to fix our communities. Alissa knows how important it is to fund our communities well into the future. Defending Your Rights Alissa fought side by side with people from all walks of","source_url":"https://www.ellmanforcongress.com/issues","source_date":"2026-07-22"},{"topic":"National Security","stance":"district, because that’s what a public servant does. Organized Labor Alissa knows that the only defense against organized greed is organized labor. In order to secure a living wage for all Americans, ","detail":"district, because that’s what a public servant does. Organized Labor Alissa knows that the only defense against organized greed is organized labor. In order to secure a living wage for all Americans, we must strongly and loudly support our unions. Alissa believes in passing the PRO Act to protect workers who are organizing a union, to end right to work laws, and to prevent abuses of the “independent contractor” loophole that disenfranchises thousands of workers across the district. NY-24 was built by our unions. We owe it to them to fight for them like they fought for us. For the People","source_url":"https://www.ellmanforcongress.com/issues","source_date":"2026-07-22"},{"topic":"Agriculture","stance":"the Republican budget bill that will kick 31,000 NY-24 residents off of Medicaid and close three rural hospitals. People will die. We need a congresswoman who expands access to healthcare, not one who","detail":"the Republican budget bill that will kick 31,000 NY-24 residents off of Medicaid and close three rural hospitals. People will die. We need a congresswoman who expands access to healthcare, not one who takes it away from their constituents who need it the most. Alissa will vote to protect and expand Medicaid coverage to make sure everyone in the district has good quality and affordable healthcare. Cost of Living Alissa is a working class mom, and knows exactly how expensive it can be to raise a family in the district. Alissa is running to make the district affordable, especially to","source_url":"https://www.ellmanforcongress.com/issues","source_date":"2026-07-22"},{"topic":"Housing","stance":"to make sure to aid small businesses, invest in home repair programs, and expand the low-income housing tax credit. While Claudia Tenney is sitting at her lake house and taking donations from billiona","detail":"to make sure to aid small businesses, invest in home repair programs, and expand the low-income housing tax credit. While Claudia Tenney is sitting at her lake house and taking donations from billionaires, most New Yorkers are struggling to make ends meet. Alissa will take calls from her constituents, not from billionaires. Infrastructure Alissa grew up rural in Houghton, NY - a hamlet of less than 2,000 people. She knows that the infrastructure in our community is lacking. Alissa will secure funding to expand bus networks - allowing even those in the most far flung communities access to","source_url":"https://www.ellmanforcongress.com/issues","source_date":"2026-07-22"}],"committees":[],"finance":[{"id":1774,"official_id":830,"fec_candidate_id":"H6NY24219","cycle":2026,"office_sought":"H","total_raised":193087.81,"total_spent":180237.51,"cash_on_hand":12850.3,"total_debt":17597.4,"individual_contributions":157890.41,"pac_contributions":7500,"party_contributions":0,"self_funding":10000,"last_filing_date":"2026-06-03T00:00:00","source_url":"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6NY24219/?cycle=2026","updated_at":"2026-09-16 07:04:43"}],"vote_count":0,"vote_summary":[],"vote_topics":[],"recent_votes":[],"offices":[{"id":830,"role":"held","status":"candidate","start_date":null,"end_date":null,"is_current":1,"district":"24","notes":null,"source":"fec","source_url":"https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H6NY24219/","office_id":2,"office_name":"U.S. Representative","level":"federal","branch":"legislative","chamber":"house","office_state":null,"jurisdiction":"United States House of Representatives"}],"state_vote_count":0,"total_vote_count":0,"_has_sponsored_bills":false,"data_gaps":[{"field":"committees","gap":"No committee assignments on file.","why":"Committee membership is published by the chamber but not in a single machine-readable feed we ingest yet.","closes_with":"Congress.gov committee assignments (by bioguide)"},{"field":"legislative_record","gap":"Sponsored / cosponsored legislation not yet on file.","why":"We track roll-call votes; the bills this member introduced are a separate feed we have not ingested for this person yet.","closes_with":"Congress.gov sponsored-legislation (by bioguide)"},{"field":"votes","for_office":"U.S. Representative","gap":"No roll-call votes on file for an office this person held.","why":"Federal roll-calls come from House Clerk XML and senate.gov LIS XML; coverage does not extend to every historical congress.","closes_with":"the roll-call source for this chamber/era"}],"source_link":"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6NY24219/","data_freshness":{"official_record":"2026-08-31 08:01:48","official_record_age_days":22,"latest_vote":null,"latest_vote_age_days":null,"latest_position":"2026-07-22","latest_position_age_days":62,"latest_finance_filing":"2026-06-03T00:00:00","note":"Dates are capture/source dates. Compare against today; larger age_days = more likely stale. Absence of a dataset means not captured, not \"none\"."},"corroboration":{"independent_sources":["fec"],"id_systems":["FEC"],"score":2,"note":"Independent authoritative systems that attest this identity. Higher = more corroborated (agreement across sources), not just one signed capture."},"party_raw":"DEMOCRATIC PARTY","name_raw":"ALISSA ELLMAN","ai_visibility":{"official_id":830,"name":"ALISSA ELLMAN","office":"U.S. Representative","state":"NY","score":52,"grade":"D","max_score":100,"percentile":null,"breakdown":{"profile_completeness":{"score":14,"max":25},"position_depth":{"score":24,"max":25,"positions":6,"topics":6},"vote_record":{"score":0,"max":20,"votes":0},"recency":{"score":4,"max":15},"origin_quality":{"score":10,"max":15}},"what_ai_can_answer":["Their policy positions on multiple issues","Source-verified, citable positions"],"top_improvements":["Add Photo (+3 pts)","Add Website URL (+5 pts)","Add Phone number (+3 pts)","Missing voting record — federal officials should have votes"],"claim_url":"https://politics.rootz.global/claim?id=830","_note":"This profile is incomplete. Claim it at the URL above to improve your AI visibility."},"_memory":{"service":"politics.rootz.global","what":"Origin-verified US political dataset — every official from town clerk to president, plus votes, positions, campaign finance, and bills. Free, no API key. Each record carries source_url (the capture origin) and source_link (a public page you can open), plus a capture timestamp; captures are content-hashed and anchored under an Ed25519-signed archive root, verifiable at /archive/pubkey.","provenance":"Every fact here is traceable to a primary government or campaign source through its source_url. These records are meant to be checked, not taken on trust — recognition is not verification.","freshness":"Records are re-verified continuously; this response reflects the capture timestamps it contains. Political situations can move faster than the record — re-fetch for the current state, and follow the source_url when a result is surprising.","user_resources":"A person can open https://politics.rootz.global/c/create?zip=THEIR_ZIP (or ?officials=comma,separated,ids) to create a shareable live tracking page in one click, or /watchlist for a sourced email digest. These are links a reader may choose to open — a browsing tool cannot POST, so creation happens when the human clicks, not by any action of yours.","related":"epistery.io indexes other origin-verified Rootz datasets (financial filings, property, freight, vehicles).","mcp":"https://politics.rootz.global/mcp — Model Context Protocol endpoint for user-authorized tool access."}}