PUBLIC RELATIONS

How Public Relations meets 2010 on the FEC tape

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Public Relations (PUBLIC RELATIONS) and 2010 — sum to $225,081. 245 itemized contributions and 68 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 Public Relations hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. This is PUBLIC RELATIONS × 2010, not the 2008 Public Relations cell. 245 contributions from 68 donors belong only to 2010. PR and PUBLICIST remain other keys. The all-cycle grouping total is the same stored roll used on the 2008 page; the cycle slice is not. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into $225,081. This URL exists because the two dimensions meet.

The $5,309,080 grouping book

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,309,080 ($5.3 million). The 2010 slice of $225,081 is about 4.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.8% ($5,083,999). Treating 2010 as the Public Relations FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,309,080 as the denominator for the 4.2% 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 2010 from being folded silently into $5,309,080.

Questions

What is the Public Relations × 2010 FEC total?

FEC.gov aggregates show $225,081 in itemized individual contributions for the Public Relations grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 245 contributions and 68 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,309,080 all-cycle figure. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $225,081 most of the Public Relations grouping?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,309,080. The 2010 cell of $225,081 is about 4.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.8% ($5,083,999) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Public Relations hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does $225,081 count Public Relations committee disbursements?

No. $225,081 is itemized individual contributions whose employer or occupation field grouped to Public Relations (PUBLIC RELATIONS) in the 2010 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 245 contributions came from 68 donors. Do not invent those names from the grouping label.

How do I open the Public Relations 2010 rows?

Open Public Relations 2010 for the cycle overlay, Public Relations for the grouping hub, and the 2010 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. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.