ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY and Birmingham, AL contribution overlap

Relationship between Birmingham and Alabama GOP

This page is a JOIN. One side is the filer-entered city BIRMINGHAM in Alabama. The other side is ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY on C00044776. $252,059 is what remains after both filters. Opening only the Birmingham, AL hub restates $100,682,535. Opening only the committee hub restates every city that gave to C00044776. Adding those hubs together double-counts.

City labels are filer-entered. BIRMINGHAM is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A neighboring municipality is another hub. A BIRMINGHAM line to a different committee ID sits in the leftover $100,430,476, not in $252,059. ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY on C00044776 is a state-party committee, not the DCCC page that also uses BIRMINGHAM, AL. Those two Birmingham cells cannot be stacked into one municipal total. A state-party federal account is still cited as the stored committee, not as Alabama state-office filings.

City hub versus this cell

Take the committee filter off and BIRMINGHAM still shows $100,682,535 itemized. $252,059 is the slice tagged to C00044776. Open the Birmingham, AL hub for the remainder $100,430,476. Do not subtract by hand from a different extract dated on another night.

Birmingham is displayed for readers; BIRMINGHAM is the grouping key. Titles use Birmingham, AL. The leftover $100,430,476 is $100,682,535 minus $252,059 on this extract only. The Alabama hub is a different roll-up.

Committee hub versus this cell

C00044776 is disclosed as ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $252,059 is itemized individual receipts storing city BIRMINGHAM and committee C00044776. Other cities giving to ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Long or truncated FEC names stay as stored. DBA clauses, AKA clauses, slashes, and parentheticals are part of the label on C00044776. Short titles on this page still point at that ID. Do not invent a cleaner legal name.

Exact-match city strings

0.25% of $100,682,535 is $252,059 to ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY (C00044776). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Birmingham, AL as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $100,682,535 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.25% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00044776 filter.

The leftover $100,430,476 under the BIRMINGHAM city string went to other committees. The Birmingham, AL hub holds that remainder. The ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY page holds receipts whose city field did not store BIRMINGHAM. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00044776; each join is its own filter.

Outside the $252,059 total

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $252,059. Alabama state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $252,059 as proof that Birmingham, AL funded ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Alabama. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $252,059 to federal spending in Alabama.

How researchers should quote C00044776

Internal links go to Birmingham, AL, ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY, Alabama campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $100,682,535 book and the committees that received the leftover $100,430,476. The committee page holds C00044776 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Birmingham, AL and ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY (C00044776). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $252,059 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot. Cite $252,059, $100,682,535, 0.25%, leftover $100,430,476, and C00044776.

Questions

What is the Birmingham × Alabama GOP FEC total?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city BIRMINGHAM and recipient ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY (C00044776) total $252,059 in this extract. That is the join, not Birmingham, AL's all-committee book of $100,682,535. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is BIRMINGHAM merged with nearby cities?

No. BIRMINGHAM is the exact stored city string with state AL. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $252,059. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Birmingham, AL hub for the all-committee book of $100,682,535.

How much of the $100.7M Birmingham book is C00044776?

$252,059 is 0.25% of the $100,682,535 Birmingham, AL city book. The leftover $100,430,476 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00044776. Do not upgrade 0.25% into a ranking of civic preference.

Do Birmingham donations to Alabama GOP fund USAspending awards?

No. The series is FEC individual contributions. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Geography on a contribution line does not convert the gift into a federal award in Alabama. Cite FEC.gov for $252,059 from BIRMINGHAM to ALABAMA REPUBLICAN PARTY (C00044776) and $100,682,535 for the Birmingham, AL city book.