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Hamburger Group Creative
Paid $220K by Portland’s business-backed and conservative campaigns and PACs since January 2025.
What
Democratic ad firm: TV and video ads
Where
Washington, DC
Business & conservative side, 2025–26$220K+$10K owed
Progressive side, 2025–26—
Every Oregon committee, 2025–26$220K
Every Oregon committee, all years$288K2 committees since 2024
Who’s behind it
Martin Hamburger, Founder and president. DC-based ad maker for decades; founded the firm in 1994. influencewatch.org
What to know
Unity PAC is funded by the Chamber PAC ($199.5K), the Portland firefighters’ PAC and Keep Portland Safe PAC. ORESTAR
Its only other Oregon client on record is Sam Adams’s 2024 run for mayor ($68K). ORESTAR
Works for Democratic candidates and left-of-center ballot campaigns, including drug-policy and psilocybin measures (per conservative-run InfluenceWatch). InfluenceWatch
Hawaii campaigns paid Hamburger's company more than $630,000 since 2010. Honolulu Civil Beat
Federal clients in 2022–2024 included Andy Levin for Congress and the Operating Engineers' PAC, per FEC data cited by InfluenceWatch. InfluenceWatch
No other Oregon committee paid this firm since January 2025.
Every Oregon committee, all years
$288K from 2 committees since 2024. The biggest:
Unity PAC2026$220K
Friends of Sam Adams2024$68K
Earlier: Sam Adams for mayor, 2024 ($68K).
Sources
Portland race payments: the campaigns’ own ORESTAR filings. Other clients and all-years history: a Ballast vendor search of every Oregon committee in ORESTAR. Both pulled Oct 19, 2026.