ABILENE, TX: $18.0M on 40,309 FEC receipts

40,309 lines carrying $17,994,025

The headline pair is $17,994,025 and 40,309 lines. The implied average is about $446. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the ABILENE book. Taylor County filers typed ABILENE with state TX.

Abilene is a Taylor County West Texas field, not a DFW annex. Dallas and Houston rows do not sit inside ABILENE, TX. Cisco is a neighboring Eastland string with its own hub. 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 $17,994,025 as tagged federal receipts, not as what residents of ABILENE gave. The 40,309 lines are disclosed transactions, not unique persons.

If a newsroom map paints ABILENE together with Sweetwater, Cisco, and San Angelo, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $17,994,025 on 40,309 ABILENE, TX rows, mean near $446. Keep the stored spelling ABILENE in the citation.

Why ABILENE on the receipt is not a census

Searchers often want “how much did people in Abilene give.” The honest citation on this page is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city ABILENE, TX total $17,994,025 across 40,309 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim. No. ABILENE, TX is the stored Taylor County string. Dallas is a different city key.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $17,994,025. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here. A mean near $446 is arithmetic from the two packet facts, not a typical household gift.

ABILENE receipts versus local campaigns

A ABILENE, TX tag records the contributor city on a federal itemization. It does not record where a ABILENE candidate spent money. $17,994,025 can leave town. Unitemized federal gifts and TX state-office receipts sit outside the 40,309 lines.

Mail and office addresses that store ABILENE still count. That is why Sweetwater, Cisco, and San Angelo should not be treated as the same book. About $446 per line is arithmetic on $17,994,025 and 40,309.

Reading ABILENE against Dallas

Place ABILENE next to Dallas only if both figures are contributor-city itemized federal receipts. A west texas mid-volume book: 40,309 lines, $17,994,025, mean near $446.

Sweetwater, Cisco, and San Angelo remain other keys. Keep state TX so ABILENE, TX is not added to a twin elsewhere. TX state-campaign totals are a different filing system than this FEC city extract.

TX ZIPs are not a substitute for ABILENE

Do not back into a ABILENE story from a ZIP you assume belongs there. This packet does not publish those codes. 40,309 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 $17,994,025 and 40,309 from FEC.gov for the city field ABILENE, TX.

Packet facts for ABILENE

$17,994,025 divided by 40,309 is about $446. Quote the pair. Quoting only the mean hides the line count. Repeat gifts add rows. Taylor County is the geography of the string, not a summed county total.

Sweetwater is next door on a map and separate on the tape. Cite $17,994,025 with 40,309 from FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. If the live ABILENE hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Researchers citing ABILENE should keep state TX 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 $17,994,025 or 40,309 without this guide rewriting itself. Treat the mean near $446 as division only. Sweetwater, Cisco, and San Angelo remain other strings. The 40,309-line count still is not a headcount.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city ABILENE, TX?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city ABILENE, TX total $17,994,025 across 40,309 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 Abilene. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean near $446 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

Is Abilene folded into Dallas on this extract?

No. ABILENE, TX is the stored Taylor County string. Dallas is a different city key. LobbyVault counts 40,309 itemized contributions for ABILENE, TX against $17,994,025. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 40,309 should not be quoted as a population. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Abilene total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed ABILENE with state TX. Office addresses and mail that list Abilene can be part of $17,994,025 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 40,309-line count follows the same rule.

Are Abilene numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,994,025 and 40,309 lines for ABILENE, TX. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from TX are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.