COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

Majority of a specialty title on a college PAC

57.0% of Pathologist itemized dollars landed on CAP PAC. $2,277,493 (43.0%) still went to other federal committees. A college PAC can hold a majority of a specialty string without capturing every pathologist’s candidate giving.

6,179 receipts at mean $489 is a mid-count, mid-check pattern. Unique donors are unpublished. Anatomic versus clinical pathology is not a packet split.

Links: Pathologist occupation hub, CAP PAC committee page, All occupations, All FEC ties. Physician and laboratory director are other keys.

Keep Pathologist → CAP PAC (C00274944): $3,019,138 in 6,179 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

PATHOLOGIST as typed

The occupation-wide total is $5,296,631. Forensic pathologist and dermatopathologist can exist as other strings. They are not inside $5,296,631 unless stored as PATHOLOGIST. Board certification is not an FEC field.

A filer can list Pathologist and give only to candidates, never appearing in $3,019,138. A filer can list Physician on C00274944 and sit outside this occupation slice.

Quote Pathologist for the occupation-wide $5,296,631 and quote COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (C00274944) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $3,019,138 across 6,179 itemized receipts, 57.0% of the occupation book, mean $489. Remainder $2,277,493 (43.0%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $3,019,138 to $5,296,631. Do not treat 6,179 as unique donors.

Questions

How much did pathologists give to CAP PAC?

$3,019,138 in 6,179 itemized contributions from occupation Pathologist to C00274944. That is 57.0% of Pathologist’s $5,296,631 occupation-wide total. Mean $489 is arithmetic. Unique donors are unpublished. Independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Are forensic pathologists included?

Only if the occupation line stored Pathologist. Forensic pathologist can exist as another key. This page does not recode subspecialties into Pathologist. Use All occupations to compare neighboring strings. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Is $3.0 million CAP PAC’s total fundraising?

No. $3,019,138 is the Pathologist occupation slice. Other occupations on C00274944 sit on the committee overlay. Dues and independent expenditures are outside the source note. The live FEC committee file is the PAC-wide view. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Does 57 percent mean most pathologists give to CAP PAC?

No. 57.0% is a dollar share of itemized Pathologist occupation receipts, not a share of people and not a membership rate. $2,277,493 of the Pathologist book went to other federal committees. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.