ASPEN, CO: $17.2M on 46,392 FEC receipts

46,392 lines carrying $17,166,209

The headline pair is $17,166,209 and 46,392 lines. The implied average is about $370. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the ASPEN book. Pitkin County filers typed ASPEN with state CO.

Aspen is a Pitkin mountain-town string. Denver is a different Front Range key. Snowmass Village and Basalt are neighboring Roaring Fork names, not subsets of ASPEN, CO. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string. Read $17,166,209 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ASPEN gave. The 46,392 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ASPEN together with Snowmass Village, Basalt, and Glenwood Springs, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,166,209 on 46,392 ASPEN, CO rows, mean near $370. Keep the stored spelling ASPEN in the citation.

Why ASPEN on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Aspen give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ASPEN, CO total $17,166,209 across 46,392 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. ASPEN, CO is the stored Pitkin County string. Denver is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,166,209. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $370 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

ASPEN receipts versus local campaigns

A ASPEN, CO tag records the contributor city on a federal itemization. It does not record where a ASPEN candidate spent money. $17,166,209 can leave town. Unitemized federal gifts and CO state-office receipts sit outside the 46,392 lines.

Mail and office addresses that store ASPEN still count. That is why Snowmass Village, Basalt, and Glenwood Springs should not be treated as the same book. About $370 per line is arithmetic on $17,166,209 and 46,392.

Reading ASPEN against Denver

Place ASPEN next to Denver only if both figures are contributor-city itemized federal receipts. A pitkin mid-volume book: 46,392 lines, $17,166,209, mean near $370.

Snowmass Village, Basalt, and Glenwood Springs remain other keys. Keep state CO so ASPEN, CO is not added to a twin elsewhere. CO state-campaign totals are a different filing system than this FEC city extract.

CO ZIPs are not a substitute for ASPEN

Do not back into a ASPEN story from a ZIP you assume belongs there. This packet does not publish those codes. 46,392 city-field lines wait on the live hub and the ZIP directory for any geographic split.

Candidate quality, issue fights, and local election results are not in the packet. The extract’s numbers are $17,166,209 and 46,392 from FEC.gov for the city field ASPEN, CO.

Packet facts for ASPEN

$17,166,209 divided by 46,392 is about $370. Quote the pair. Quoting only the mean hides the line count. Repeat gifts add rows. Pitkin County is the geography of the string, not a summed county total.

Snowmass Village is next door on a map and separate on the tape. Cite $17,166,209 with 46,392 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live ASPEN hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing ASPEN should keep state CO in the sentence so readers do not hunt a same-named place. The live city table can show named committees that this snapshot does not list. A later FEC extract can move $17,166,209 or 46,392 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $370 as division only. Snowmass Village, Basalt, and Glenwood Springs remain other strings. The 46,392-line count still is not a headcount.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ASPEN, CO?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ASPEN, CO total $17,166,209 across 46,392 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Aspen. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $370 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Aspen folded into Denver on this extract?

No. ASPEN, CO is the stored Pitkin County string. Denver is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 46,392 itemized contributions for ASPEN, CO against $17,166,209. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 46,392 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Aspen total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ASPEN with state CO. Office addresses and mail that list Aspen can be part of $17,166,209 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 46,392-line count follows the same rule.

Are Aspen numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,166,209 and 46,392 lines for ASPEN, CO. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from CO are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.