Architect political contributions from Georgia

Why $910,748 is a join, not a hub restatement

LobbyVault keeps a Architect occupation page and a Georgia state page. Neither page is this join. The join is $910,748 from 1,325 contributions and 130 donors where occupation equals ARCHITECT and state equals GA. Against the occupation total of $31,910,255, that is 2.9%. Other states hold $30,999,507.

Do not treat 2.9% as Architect workers’ share of all Georgia receipts. The state hub still holds every other occupation. Do not treat 130 as a headcount of everyone who held the job in Georgia. The count is donor keys whose itemized receipts grouped to this string. The packet does not publish a party split or an employer split for this pair.

Donor state GA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Georgia professional license, and not a limit to Georgia candidates. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state.

What $31,910,255 on the occupation hub includes

On the occupation side, Architect indexes $31,910,255 of itemized individual receipts across harvested geography. $910,748 is already inside that total; adding $910,748 to $31,910,255 would double-count the Georgia slice. Architect occupation pages still mix Georgia with every other state.

ARCHITECT is the typed professional string. Landscape Architect and Architecture are other keys. Licensure is not verified. Keep the exact string on the citation so Architect is not merged with a sibling title. Architecture, AIA, Landscape Architect, and Architectural Designer are other keys. Use the occupation hub to see the title without a state filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Architect in Georgia.

What the Georgia hub still mixes

Georgia campaign finance still holds teachers, retirees, attorneys, and every other occupation string that used GA. Adding those dollars to $910,748 would destroy the occupation filter. Subtracting $910,748 from an unpublished statewide total is also out of scope: this packet does not include a Georgia all-occupation dollar figure.

What this page does include on the state side: 1,325 contributions, 130 donors, $910,748. Those three numbers share the occupation filter ARCHITECT. Without that filter they are not this join.

Donor keys, lines, and means for Architect in Georgia

1,325 contributions totaling $910,748 is the operational definition of the Georgia side for this occupation. Repeat gifts from the same donor key raise the line count without raising 130. About 10.2 lines per donor is consistent with repeat itemization, but it is not proof of a giving program.

Mean $687 per line and $7,006 per donor should never be quoted as a typical Architect gift in Georgia. Typical would need a median. This extract has none. 130 keys can hide a lopsided mix of large and small gifts — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $910,748 from 1,325 contributions and 130 donors is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or professional-bloc control. Correlation is not causation. Architect × Georgia is a database join.

Researchers should keep ARCHITECT as the stored occupation string and GA as the donor-state tag. ARCHITECT is the typed professional string. Landscape Architect and Architecture are other keys. Licensure is not verified. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by occupation and donor state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Architect next to other Georgia occupation strings

Other occupation strings in Georgia live on other tie pages. This file does not add their dollars to $910,748. Architecture, AIA, Landscape Architect, and Architectural Designer are the usual nearby labels. Opening All occupations is the way to find them. Opening All FEC ties is the way to find other occupation-state cells.

Do not invent donor names to illustrate 130 keys. The aggregate is the published object. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Architect, donor state Georgia (GA), $910,748 itemized, 1,325 contributions, 130 donors, 2.9% of $31,910,255. ARCHITECT is the typed professional string. Landscape Architect and Architecture are other keys. Licensure is not verified. Architecture, AIA, Landscape Architect, and Architectural Designer stay on other occupation pages. The Georgia campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

What is the Georgia Architect contribution total?

$910,748 from 1,325 itemized contributions and 130 donor keys whose occupation grouped to ARCHITECT and whose donor state grouped to GA. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the occupation’s national total of $31,910,255. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of Architect occupation receipts is Georgia?

2.9%. That is $910,748 divided by $31,910,255. The complement is $30,999,507 from other states under the same occupation string. The share is not a share of donors nationwide, votes, or federal awards. Contribution share is 0.9%; donor share is 2.1%.

Does occupation ARCHITECT mean the donors were licensed in Georgia?

No. Occupation is a filer-entered field. FEC.gov does not verify licenses, degrees, or employment. ARCHITECT is the typed professional string. Landscape Architect and Architecture are other keys. Licensure is not verified. 130 is a donor-key count, not a credential census. The dollars remain $910,748 on 1,325 lines.

Where are the live Architect and Georgia tables?

Architect donations carries the $31,910,255 occupation total. Georgia campaign finance places Architect beside other occupation strings in that state. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Architect × Georgia intersection only.