CONTRACTOR

Contractor as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Contractor and 2008 — sum to $1,679,319. 1,542 itemized contributions and 480 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 Contractor hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Contractor on an FEC line is a short occupation or employer word, not a state contractor-license census. Four hundred eighty donors in 2008 produced 1,542 lines. Independent-contractor tax status is not certified. Named GC firms typed as employer sit on firm pages. GENERAL CONTRACTOR, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, BUILDER, DEVELOPER, and named construction firms are other keys if stored separately.

5.9% of the Contractor roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $28,385,563 ($28.4 million). The 2008 slice of $1,679,319 is about 5.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.1% ($26,706,244). Treating 2008 as the Contractor FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $28,385,563 as the denominator for the 5.9% 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 $28,385,563.

Questions

How much did Contractor donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,679,319 in itemized individual contributions for the Contractor grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,542 contributions and 480 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $28,385,563 all-cycle figure.

What share of Contractor FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $28,385,563. The 2008 cell of $1,679,319 is about 5.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.1% ($26,706,244) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Contractor 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 Contractor donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Contractor. 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 $1,679,319 from 480 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Contractor 2008 join?

Open Contractor 2008 for the cycle overlay, Contractor 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.