ATTY

Atty as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Atty and 2008 — sum to $785,130. 804 itemized contributions and 238 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Atty hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Atty is an abbreviation stored as an industry grouping, not a state-bar roster. Two hundred thirty-eight donors and 804 lines in 2008 matched those four letters. ATTORNEY spelled out is a different key if filers used the full word. Named firms typed as employer sit on firm pages. ATTORNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LAWYER, ESQ, and named law-firm employer strings are other keys. This page is the four-letter Atty abbreviation.

6.2% of the Atty roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $12,586,849 ($12.6 million). The 2008 slice of $785,130 is about 6.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.8% ($11,801,719). Treating 2008 as the Atty FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $12,586,849 as the denominator for the 6.2% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $12,586,849.

Questions

How much did Atty donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $785,130 in itemized individual contributions for the Atty grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 804 contributions and 238 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $12,586,849 all-cycle figure.

What share of Atty FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $12,586,849. The 2008 cell of $785,130 is about 6.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.8% ($11,801,719) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Atty hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Atty donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Atty. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $785,130 from 238 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Atty 2008 join?

Open Atty 2008 for the cycle overlay, Atty for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.