Research status
- Evidence confidence
- 74%
- Score coverage
- 25%
- Recommendation
- No endorsement
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-25
Official ballot record · Published research
Jessica Bichler
Democratic candidate for NC STATE SENATE DISTRICT 07.
Jessica Bichler's verified campaign material contains source-linked policy statements. Covered-rights gaps remain explicitly unscored.
Campaign finance
NCSBE reports $171,848.85 in election-cycle receipts, $57,661.47 in expenditures, and $114,187.38 cash on hand through 06/30/2026.
Open finance source ↗Campaign links
Funding composition
Where the money comes from
Named individual contributions$120,390.4 · 70.1%
Unitemized individual contributions$6,073.59 · 3.5%
Party committees$28,384.86 · 16.5%
Other political committees$17,000 · 9.9%
Loans and other receipts$0 · 0.0%
Material funding concerns
North Carolina Democratic Party · $26,401.46
This source supplies at least 10% of reported receipts, creating high donor concentration.
EMILY's List · $6,800
This is material institutional funding; its sponsor, purpose, and relationship to the candidate warrant scrutiny.
Vote Save America · $3,800
This is material institutional funding; its sponsor, purpose, and relationship to the candidate warrant scrutiny.
Jonah Garson for NC · $3,400
This is material institutional funding; its sponsor, purpose, and relationship to the candidate warrant scrutiny.
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Personal donations are not attributed to a donor's employer. Independent expenditures are reported separately from money received by the campaign.
Evidence-gated scorecard
How this candidate measures up
Worker-policy alignment
No sufficiently specific, validated worker-policy position is published.
Evidence confidence: 0%Record reliability
No comparable governing record exists; this does not reduce the candidate's score.
Evidence confidence: 0%Funding independence
Official filings show party and other political-committee receipts equal to approximately 26.4% of the displayed funding breakdown. This does not infer donor motive.
Evidence confidence: 90%Democracy and ethics
No sufficiently specific, validated democracy or judicial-rights position is published.
Evidence confidence: 0%Transparency
The reviewed profile publishes 2 source-linked evidence items and labels candidate statements separately from official records.
Evidence confidence: 74%not applicable
Promises: Published candidate commitments are shown as statements.
Record: No comparable governing record is available.
The absence of a governing record is labeled as a risk and is not scored as a failure.
0/10 answered
Questionnaire participation is not treated as positive or negative evidence during the launch period.
Developing campaign
Reported receipts exceed $100,000. Organization and competitiveness still require separate evidence.
Risks and uncertainty
What remains uncertain
No governing record
No comparable legislative, executive, or judicial record is available. Campaign commitments are not treated as accomplishments.
Evidence record
What the sources establish
Candidate campaign statement
Wages and economic security
North Carolina’s minimum wage should reflect the value that our workers bring to the state’s economy. The state’s minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour since 2009, but estimates show that a single adult in New Hanover County must earn [$18.90 per hour](https://ncbudget.org/2025-living-income-standard/) to make ends meet. Meanwhile, the General Assembly has voted to eliminate the corporate income tax entirely by 2030, a tax cut that primarily benefits corporations headquartered out-of-state. We must raise the minimum wage and expand assistance for small businesses to support workers and entrepreneurs and increase the flow of money through our local economies.
“North Carolina’s minimum wage should reflect the value that our workers bring to the state’s economy. The state’s minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour since 2009, but estimates show that a single adult in New Hanover County must earn [$18.90 per hour](https://ncbudget.org/2025-living-income-standard/) to make ends meet. Meanwhile, the General Assembly has voted to eliminate the corporate income tax entirely by 2030, a tax cut that primarily benefits corporations headquartered out-of-state. We must raise the minimum wage and expand assistance for small businesses to support workers and entrepreneurs and increase the flow of money through our local economies.”
Candidate campaign statement
Public education and services
All North Carolinians have a constitutional right to a fully-funded, high-quality public education.
“All North Carolinians have a constitutional right to a fully-funded, high-quality public education.”