Auto dealer donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Auto dealer × 2012

AUTO DEALER plus cycle 2012 equals $1,542,498. The two-word title is not a franchise census and not a manufacturer PAC. This join does not recode NADA membership or rooftop counts.

Parent hubs: Auto Dealer donations and the 2012 election cycle. All FEC ties keeps the auto-dealer title as its own occupation-year cell.

The occupation hub for Auto Dealer lists $12.0 million ($12,020,006) under the exact string AUTO DEALER. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Auto Dealer in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.5 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A specific trade title

$12.0 million ($12,020,006) belongs to AUTO DEALER. It is smaller than generic business labels because the title is specific. People who wrote dealer or car salesman are other rows if that is the form text.

The 2012 slice is 12.8% of that trade-title bucket. Other cycle amounts are not listed here.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,542,498. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $12,020,006. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Auto Dealer donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $1,542,498. If a later harvest revises 911 or 452, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($12,020,006) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

452 auto-dealer donors

452 donors and 911 receipts — about 2.0 lines per donor. Mean per donor about $3,413; mean per receipt about $1,693. A 452-donor presidential-year file can be top-heavy. No median.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 911 is a line count, not 452 one-time gifts. New versus used, franchise versus independent, is not encoded in the occupation string.

911 is a receipt count. 452 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.5 million.

Trade title, not manufacturer money

Cite $1,542,498 as Auto Dealer in 2012. Cite $12,020,006 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add automaker PACs or dealer-association PACs to either figure.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists neighboring trade titles.

Dividing $1,542,498 by 911 receipts yields about $1,693 per line. Dividing by 452 donors yields about $3,413 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Not a rooftop or NADA census

Auto Dealer does not mean a franchised rooftop, a dealer license, or NADA membership. It means the occupation box said AUTO DEALER. Filers who wrote car dealer or salesman are outside $1.5 million if those strings differ.

No ranking of brands, no party split, no claim about fuel-economy rules. 911 receipts and 452 donors are the volume facts.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode AUTO DEALER into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did auto dealers donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Auto Dealer itemized $1,542,498 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 911 receipts and 452 donors. That is 12.8% of $12,020,006 under AUTO DEALER. Car dealer and dealer are other keys when those are the words on the form.

Does this include dealer-association PACs?

No. $1.5 million is individual contributions tagged Auto Dealer. Association PACs file as committees. Mixing PAC independent spending with $1,542,498 would blend FEC tables. See Auto Dealer donations or the 2012 cycle hub for committee names. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Auto Dealer in 2012 is $1,542,498 on 911 receipts from 452 donors.

Is Auto Dealer the same as car dealer in FEC data?

Only if the typed characters match. This join uses AUTO DEALER. Other phrasings are other keys. LobbyVault does not recode auto-retail titles. Cite $1.5 million for this two-word title in 2012. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Auto Dealer in 2012 is $1,542,498 on 911 receipts from 452 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Auto Dealer donations ($12.0 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $1,542,498 from 452 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring trade titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Auto Dealer in 2012 is $1,542,498 on 911 receipts from 452 donors.