Garamendi, John
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John Raymond Garamendi ( GARR-ə-MEN-dee; born January 24, 1945) is an American businessman, politician and member of the Democratic Party who has represented areas of Northern California between San Francisco and Sacramento, including the cities of Fairfield and Vacaville in the United States House of Representatives since 2009. Garamendi was the California insurance commissioner from 1991 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, and the 46th lieutenant governor of California from 2007 until his election to Congress in late 2009. Garamendi was born in Camp Blanding, Florida and raised in Mokelumne Hill, California. He earned a B.A. in business from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School then served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1966 to 1968. He was elected to the California State Assembly in 1974, serving a single term before being elected in 1976 to the California State Senate where he served four terms until 1990. During this time he had a stint as Majority Leader and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nominations for governor of California in 1982 and California State Controller in 1986. In 1990, Garamendi became the first elected California insurance commissioner, serving from 1991 to 1995. He ran for governor in the 1994 election, losing in the Democratic primary. He left elective office and served as President Bill Clinton's deputy secretary of the interior from 1995 to 1998 then worked for the Peace Corps again. He was elected insurance commissioner again in 2002 and briefly ran for governor again in the 2003 recall, before dropping out to support Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante. In 2006, he was elected lieutenant governor to succeed the term-limited Bustamante. Garamendi had planned to run for governor a fourth time in 2010, but after U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher of California's 10th congressional district resigned, Garamendi won the November 2009 special election to succeed her.
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Core attributes
- Current office
- Representative
- Office level
- federal
- Canonical name
- Garamendi, John
- First name
- John
- Last name
- Garamendi
- Occupation
- —
- Education
- —
- Year of birth
- —
Races
- California 8th Congressional District — 2026 General Election 2026-11-03 DEM C
- California 8th Congressional District — 2024 General Election 2024-11-05 DEM C
- California 8th Congressional District — 2022 General Election 2022-11-08 DEM C
Campaign finance
Money at a glance
2022 cycle
- Coverage
- 2021-01-01 to 2022-12-31
- Source
- Derived from itemized transactions
- Outside spending
- Outside spending details
- Total receipts
- $1,146,918.01
- Total disbursements
- $1,136,592.75
- Cash on hand
- Not available
- Net self-funded
- Not available
- Debts owed by the committee
- $0.00
Receipt components disclose $1,146,918.01 in total receipts for the 2022 cycle.
Sources: FEC candidate and committee summaries
View chart data
| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| Individual contributions | Dollars: $468,190.04;Share: 40.8%;Denominator: $1,146,918.01 |
| PAC/other committee contributions | Dollars: $677,300.00;Share: 59.1%;Denominator: $1,146,918.01 |
| Party committee contributions | Dollars: $0.00;Share: 0%;Denominator: $1,146,918.01 |
| Candidate funding | Dollars: $0.00;Share: 0%;Denominator: $1,146,918.01 |
| Transfers from other authorized committees | Dollars: $0.00;Share: 0%;Denominator: $1,146,918.01 |
| Other receipts | Dollars: $1,427.97;Share: 0.1%;Denominator: $1,146,918.01 |
Fundraising detail
Itemized totals do not match committee summary totals, so this view uses itemized-only contribution facts.
- Small-dollar share
- Small-dollar share unavailable
- Small-dollar amount
- Committee summary totals are not available yet.
- Coverage
- 2021-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Individual contribution totals
- 2022 cycle
- $163,754.00
- Itemized
- $163,754.00
- Unitemized
- $0.00
- Itemized transactions
- 177 transactions
Only itemized individual contributions are included; unitemized totals are unavailable for this view.
Itemized individual contributions total $163,754.00 in the 2022 cycle.
Monthly contribution columns
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
View chart data
| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| January 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| February 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| March 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| April 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| May 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| June 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| July 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| August 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| September 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| October 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| November 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| December 2021 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| January 2022 | Dollars: $1,300.00;Transactions: 2;Coverage: Covered |
| February 2022 | Dollars: $3,633.00;Transactions: 8;Coverage: Covered |
| March 2022 | Dollars: $44,230.00;Transactions: 26;Coverage: Covered |
| April 2022 | Dollars: $19,880.00;Transactions: 18;Coverage: Covered |
| May 2022 | Dollars: $24,465.00;Transactions: 30;Coverage: Covered |
| June 2022 | Dollars: $17,215.00;Transactions: 23;Coverage: Covered |
| July 2022 | Dollars: $65.00;Transactions: 2;Coverage: Covered |
| August 2022 | Dollars: $415.00;Transactions: 4;Coverage: Covered |
| September 2022 | Dollars: $11,140.00;Transactions: 12;Coverage: Covered |
| October 2022 | Dollars: $23,736.00;Transactions: 26;Coverage: Covered |
| November 2022 | Dollars: $16,675.00;Transactions: 24;Coverage: Covered |
| December 2022 | Dollars: $1,000.00;Transactions: 2;Coverage: Covered |
Unitemized contributions are excluded from count and geography charts.
Itemized contribution-size buckets discloses $163,754.00 across 177 reported transactions in the 2022 cycle.
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
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| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| $200 and under | Dollars: $2,370.00;Transactions: 34 |
| $200.01-$499.99 | Dollars: $6,851.00;Transactions: 27 |
| $500-$999.99 | Dollars: $22,833.00;Transactions: 45 |
| $1,000-$1,999.99 | Dollars: $42,800.00;Transactions: 41 |
| $2,000 and over | Dollars: $88,900.00;Transactions: 30 |
Reported rows exclude unitemized counts and do not equal unique donors.
District geography uses a Census 119th-Congress / 2020-ZCTA approximation.
- District share
- 10% in district
- District share basis
- $16,426.00 in district and $144,328.00 out of district; $3,000.00 unknown district excluded from the share.
Unknown is included in the visible geography denominator. Unknown is $3,000.00 with 2 reported transactions; visible denominator is $163,754.00.
Geography dollar share
District geography uses a Census 119th-Congress / 2020-ZCTA approximation.
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
View chart data
| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| In district | Dollars: $16,426.00;Transactions: 27;Denominator: $163,754.00 |
| Elsewhere in state | Dollars: $106,928.00;Transactions: 114;Denominator: $163,754.00 |
| Out of state | Dollars: $37,400.00;Transactions: 34;Denominator: $163,754.00 |
| Unknown | Dollars: $3,000.00;Transactions: 2;Denominator: $163,754.00 |
Top reported contributor names
| Reported contributor name | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| DUDA, JENNIFER | $5,800.00 | 2 transactions |
| HELM, NELSON | $5,800.00 | 2 transactions |
| HELM, SUSAN | $5,800.00 | 2 transactions |
| MEDVITZ, ALBERT | $5,800.00 | 1 transaction |
| PRATT, RUSSELL R. | $5,000.00 | 1 transaction |
| HICKOX, WINSTON H. | $3,900.00 | 2 transactions |
| LAKIREDDY, SIDHARDHA | $3,900.00 | 2 transactions |
| MEKETA, JAMES E. | $3,900.00 | 2 transactions |
| BYERS, BROOK H. | $2,900.00 | 1 transaction |
| DILEO, STEPHEN | $2,900.00 | 1 transaction |
Top reported employer names
Top employers aggregate raw employer names from itemized individual contributions only.
The raw ranking remains employer-name data; see Methodology for source-linking and evidence limitations.
| Employer | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| Unclassified / not provided | $57,030.00 | 60 transactions |
| STANFORD CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $5,800.00 | 2 transactions |
| SELF EMPLOYED DBA MCCORMACK SHEEP AND | $5,800.00 | 1 transaction |
| INVARIANT | $3,900.00 | 3 transactions |
| CALIFORNIA STRATEGIES | $3,900.00 | 2 transactions |
| MEKETA INVESTMENT GROUP | $3,900.00 | 2 transactions |
| SQUARE ONE MANAGEMENT INC | $3,900.00 | 2 transactions |
| AKT DEVELOPMENT | $2,900.00 | 1 transaction |
| AUBURN MANOR HOLDING CORPORATION | $2,900.00 | 1 transaction |
| EPIC INSURANCE SERVICES | $2,900.00 | 1 transaction |
Industries among top reported employer names
Industries are assigned from reported employer names by the server. This rollup covers only eligible returned top-employer rows for the selected cycle.
| Industry | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown / unclassified | $35,900.00 | 15 transactions |
Classified: $0.00 and 0 transactions out of $35,900.00 and 15 transactions among eligible top-employer rows.
Finance data loading
Source and freshness
Last pulled: 6 days ago (2026-08-25)
Data is current.
FEC Bulk Data (campaign_finance/federal/fec)
Source record ID: cn:2022:H0CA10149
View source recordFEC Bulk Data (campaign_finance/federal/fec)
Source record ID: cn:2026:H0CA10149
View source recordFEC Bulk Data (campaign_finance/federal/fec)
Source record ID: cn:2024:H0CA10149
View source recordUS Congress Legislators (unitedstates/congress-legislators) (campaign_finance/federal/congress)
Source record ID: house:G000559
View source recordFEC Federal Races (civics/federal/fec)
Source record ID: fec_races:H0CA10149:2026
View source recordFEC Federal Races (civics/federal/fec)
Source record ID: fec_races:H0CA10149:2024
View source recordFEC Federal Races (civics/federal/fec)
Source record ID: fec_races:H0CA10149:2022
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Key metrics
- Identifiers
- 5
Identifiers
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- wikidata_id
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