Attorney political contributions from Boston, MA

How Attorney meets Boston

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Boston, MA. The other is occupation or industry grouping Attorney (stored as ATTORNEY). $29,100 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $280,702,761 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 457,209 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 31 donors, not a census of everyone in Boston who ever worked in a related trade.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Boston, MA city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Attorney industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, Massachusetts campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

42 contributions from 31 donors produced $29,100. Repeat gifts add receipts; 31 donors is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Attorney workers in Boston. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $693; per donor, about $939. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

What the Boston city book holds

Boston indexes $280,702,761 ($281 million rounded) on 457,209 itemized individual contributions. City labels are filer-entered. A suburb that types a different city never enters $280,702,761. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list Boston can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 457,209.

Massachusetts campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Boston. Do not treat $280,702,761 as the MA state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $280,702,761. State-office campaigns in Massachusetts file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.

The Attorney slice inside Boston

Inside Boston, receipts tagged Attorney total $29,100 on 42 lines from 31 donors. That is under 0.1% of $280,702,761. About $693 per receipt is $29,100 divided by 42. About $939 per harvested donor is $29,100 divided by 31. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians, not typical household gifts, and not salaries.

ATTORNEY is an exact employer/industry string on the itemization, not a NAICS sector and not every person who works in a related job. Other law-firm names, LAWYER, partnership titles, and blank employer rows are other keys. $29,100 counts only rows that stored this string in Boston, MA.

Repeat gifts, household pairs, and spelling variants of Attorney that did not match this key never enter $29,100. Repeat gifts that did match add to 42 without necessarily adding to 31. Keep line count and donor count attached to their nouns when citing Boston.

What this join is not

It is not a ranking of Boston neighborhoods. It is not a safety comparison. It is not proof that Attorney money funded a federal contract, grant, or loan. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems even when they mention the same city. This packet has no award dollars, so this page prints none.

It is not Attorney nationwide unless the industry hub — a different page — is cited separately, and this packet does not harvest that nationwide integer. It is not a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing.

under 0.1% is $29,100 divided by $280,702,761. Rounding the city total to $281 million does not create a second extract. Use $280,702,761 in a table. Use $281 million only as a headline form of the same integer. Correlation is not causation: two filer-entered fields meeting is not evidence that Attorney “controls” Boston politics.

How to cite the Boston × Attorney facts

Citation template: occupation or industry grouping Attorney, contributor city Boston, MA, $29,100 on 42 itemized individual contributions from 31 donors, against a city-wide $280,702,761 on 457,209 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Boston, MA hub, the Attorney industry page, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. Do not add $29,100 to $280,702,761; the first number is already inside the second.

Using the Boston and Attorney hubs together

The Boston, MA hub is the unfiltered city index: $280,702,761 on 457,209 lines. The Attorney hub is the grouping without this city’s filter; this packet does not print that nationwide integer, so do not guess it from $29,100. Massachusetts campaign finance is the state roll-up, a larger geography than Boston. All FEC ties is the inventory of other two-table pages. Use all four links. None of them turns $29,100 into a federal award.

If you need names, open the live city and industry hubs rather than reverse-engineering 31 donors from this snapshot. If you need cycle cuts of Boston, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Attorney in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Boston and Attorney, $29,100, 42 receipts, 31 donors.

Questions

How much did Attorney donors in Boston contribute?

Itemized individual contributions tagged Attorney and Boston, MA total $29,100 across 42 receipts from 31 donors on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is under 0.1% of Boston’s $280,702,761 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $29,100 the full Boston political-money total?

No. Boston indexes $280,702,761 across 457,209 itemized contributions. $29,100 is only the Attorney employer/occupation slice inside that city. Other strings, unitemized gifts, and state-office filings sit outside the join. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Does Attorney money in Boston fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $29,100 does not become a contract because both rows can mention Boston. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where are the Boston and Attorney live tables?

Use the Boston, MA city hub, the Attorney industry hub, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Original itemizations remain on FEC.gov. This guide quotes $29,100, 42 receipts, 31 donors, and $280,702,761.