Atty political money — 2008 cycle

Atty as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Atty and 2008 — sum to $785,130. 804 itemized contributions and 238 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 Atty hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Atty is an abbreviation stored as an industry grouping, not a state-bar roster. Two hundred thirty-eight donors and 804 lines in 2008 matched those four letters. ATTORNEY spelled out is a different key if filers used the full word. Named firms typed as employer sit on firm pages. ATTORNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LAWYER, ESQ, and named law-firm employer strings are other keys. This page is the four-letter Atty abbreviation.

6.2% of the Atty roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $12,586,849 ($12.6 million). The 2008 slice of $785,130 is about 6.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.8% ($11,801,719). Treating 2008 as the Atty FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $12,586,849 as the denominator for the 6.2% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $12,586,849.

804 contributions from 238 donors

Dividing $785,130 by 804 contributions yields about $977 per itemized gift. Dividing by 238 donors yields about $3,299 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.4. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

238 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Atty 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Atty is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Atty to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $785,130.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $785,130 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 804 contributions, the 238 unique donors, and the 6.2% share of $12,586,849.

Titles the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $785,130. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a legal-services NAICS total and not a bar PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 238 donors, and 804 contributions. The Commission does not certify bar admission. Expanding Atty into Attorney would point at a different stored string. Keep ATTY as the exact match crossed with 2008. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Atty and 2008 together

Start with $785,130, then Atty 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Atty, 2008, $785,130, 804 contributions, 238 donors, 6.2% of $12,586,849, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string ATTY.

The 6.2% share, the 238-donor count, and the $977 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Atty donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $785,130 in itemized individual contributions for the Atty grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 804 contributions and 238 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $12,586,849 all-cycle figure.

What share of Atty FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $12,586,849. The 2008 cell of $785,130 is about 6.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.8% ($11,801,719) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Atty hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Atty donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Atty. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $785,130 from 238 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Atty 2008 join?

Open Atty 2008 for the cycle overlay, Atty for the grouping hub, and the 2008 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.