PUBLISHER

Publisher as stored text, 2014 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — PUBLISHER and 2014 — sum to $289,519. 278 itemized contributions and 57 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. Cite FEC.gov for this intersection.

Neither the Publisher hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Publisher is self-reported occupation word, not a verified payroll file. 57 donors and 278 lines in 2014 matched that stored string. PUBLISHER is a one-word title covering many media trades. Named houses typed as employer are other keys. The packet does not split books from newspapers. Neighboring stored labels include PUBLISHING, BOOK PUBLISHER, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER, EDITOR, and named publishing houses. LobbyVault does not merge those strings into $289,519.

The join exists so a reader does not treat $7,681,847 (all cycles for this string) as the 2014 story, and does not treat the 2014 cycle hub as a Publisher-only list. Two filters, one cell: $289,519.

3.8% of the Publisher roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $7,681,847. The 2014 slice of $289,519 is about 3.8% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.2% ($7,392,328). Treating 2014 as the entire Publisher FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $7,681,847 as the denominator for the 3.8% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2014 from being folded silently into $7,681,847. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure. The 3.8% ratio is $289,519 divided by $7,681,847. Other even-year joins for PUBLISHER are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $7,392,328. Citing 2014 as if it were the Publisher lifetime total would overstate this cell by $7,392,328.

Questions

How much did Publisher donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $289,519 in itemized individual contributions for the Publisher grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 278 contributions and 57 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $7,681,847 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of Publisher FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $7,681,847. The 2014 cell of $289,519 is about 3.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.2% ($7,392,328) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does Publisher mean book publishers only?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string PUBLISHER. The FEC does not verify licenses, job titles, or professional status. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2014 only, totaling $289,519 from 57 donors across 278 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the Publisher 2014 join?

Open Publisher 2014 for the cycle overlay, Publisher for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this occupation filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.