Brittany Pettersen raised $1,124,938 in 2025. Her own congressional district provided $39,754. That represents 3.5% of her total fundraising. Colorado donors outside CD-7 provided $86,790. Out-of-state donors sent $998,394. That represents 88.8% of total fundraising or 25 times more than her own district.
CD-7 includes Lakewood, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Arvada, northwest Denver, Westminster, and Thornton. These working-class suburbs west and north of Denver sent Pettersen less money than she received from Massachusetts alone. Massachusetts donors contributed $294,688.
Golden donors gave $12,845. Lakewood contributed $5,110. Arvada sent $3,197. Wheat Ridge gave $2,470.
Denver donors contributed $39,253 total. Only northwest Denver falls within CD-7. A conservative estimate allocates one-third to the district. That adds $13,084 to the CD-7 total.
Cherry Hills Village, outside her district, gave $12,500. Boulder contributed $9,925. Evergreen sent $4,425. Greenwood Village gave $4,325.
DC contributors gave $186,162. California sent $38,635. New York contributed $36,000. Massachusetts provided more than all Colorado combined.
The analysis mapped 947 Colorado donors across 3,272 itemized contributions to congressional district boundaries. FEC data doesn’t include district information. The process required identifying which cities fall within CD-7, then calculating totals.
While reviewing Pettersen’s fundraising history, her 2022 congressional campaign benefited from $682,000 in spending by House Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC that received nearly $2 million from Reid Hoffman that cycle. Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder, apologized in 2019 for hosting convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein at fundraising events and visited Epstein’s private island in 2014. Pettersen voted in November 2025 to release the Epstein files and criticized Trump for attempting to suppress them. She has not commented on Hoffman’s documented visits to Epstein’s island or his role funding her 2022 campaign through House Majority PAC.
Republicans Timothy Bennett and Amanda Capobianco are running in the June 30 primary. Neither candidate has filed FEC committees or raised money as of March 9. The filing deadline is March 18. The seat runs on national progressive money with minimal constituent investment.
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