Auto Dealer political contributions from Kansas

Auto Dealer dollars from a small Kansas cell

Occupation AUTO DEALER and donor state KS produce $346,573, 133 contributions, and 14 donors. The occupation hub is $12,020,006, 10,546 contributions, and 1,377 donors. Kansas’s dollar share is about 2.9%; contribution share about 1.3% (133 of 10,546); donor share about 1.0% (14 of 1,377). This page is the intersection of those two FEC.gov fields, not a restatement of the Auto Dealer hub and not a restatement of all Kansas occupations.

DEALER, CAR DEALER, and AUTOMOBILE DEALER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack AUTO DEALER with those strings into a single Kansas professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs. The FEC file stores the occupation exactly as entered. A longer or shorter variant is a different key.

14 unique donors is a small Kansas cell inside 1,377 national AUTO DEALER donors. Those 14 people produced 133 contributions totaling $346,573, about 9.5 itemized rows per donor. Nationally the occupation runs about 7.7 rows per donor. Mean gift is about $2,606 in Kansas versus about $1,140 nationwide. A small unique-donor count is not a suppression flag and not a person-level roster; names are not in the packet.

AUTO DEALER versus DEALER and CAR DEALER

AUTO DEALER is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a license, an employer, or a payroll title. The $12,020,006 national total is AUTO DEALER only. 1,377 donors produced 10,546 contributions in that occupation bucket. AUTO DEALER is a vehicle-retail self-description, not a state motor-vehicle dealer-license extract. Nearby labels DEALER, CAR DEALER, and AUTOMOBILE DEALER remain outside this occupation total even when one person has used more than one string.

This page does not split those 10,546 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Kansas (KS). 10,546 national contributions make AUTO DEALER a published occupation bucket; this tie locates the Kansas overlap. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts are omitted. Committee identifiers on the itemized line are the recipient keys in the underlying file, but this packet does not publish a recipient breakdown.

Kansas donor-state coding on vehicle-retail lines

14 Kansas donors produced 133 contributions totaling $346,573. Donor state KS is the address on the record, not proof of a Kansas license, and not a limit to Kansas candidates. KS is the address on the itemized record, not a map of which campaigns received the $346,573. Out-of-state committees can receive itemized gifts from KS-coded donors.

The Kansas campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to KS. This join is only AUTO DEALER. The Auto Dealer occupation hub without Kansas still holds about 97.1% of the $12,020,006 (remainder $11,673,433). Kansas’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to KS. AUTO DEALER is only this filter. Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger; this page does not claim donations funded awards.

Franchise agreements are not FEC occupation fields

A 2.9% dollar share in Kansas does not rank the state as more or less political than others. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Correlation is not causation. This page does not name donors, does not invent committees, and does not treat 14 unique donors as a state motor-vehicle dealer-license extract. AUTO DEALER is not interchangeable with DEALER, CAR DEALER, and AUTOMOBILE DEALER.

Quote $346,573, 133 contributions, and 14 donors for Auto Dealer in Kansas, against $12,020,006 nationwide, source FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts stay outside the itemized aggregate. Cycle stacking can raise line counts without raising unique people. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Keep both sides of the join—Auto Dealer and Kansas—whenever the dollars are quoted.

Kansas Auto Dealer figures with a 14-donor unique count

A complete claim names Auto Dealer and Kansas (KS), then $346,573, 133 contributions, 14 donors, and 2.9% of $12,020,006, source FEC.gov. Remainder outside Kansas: $11,673,433. Mean gift $2,606 is $346,573 divided by 133 lines in this state cell. Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL.

Subtract the Kansas dollars on this page from the national AUTO DEALER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded AUTO DEALER in every other state combined. That remainder ($11,673,433) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. A unique-donor count of 14 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. Keeping dollars, contribution count, and donor count on the same page is the point of the join.

Dealer-title hubs and Kansas campaign finance

Auto Dealer donations holds the $12,020,006 national occupation total. Kansas campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and All FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. This tie page quotes packet facts only.

Questions

How much have Auto Dealer donors in Kansas given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation AUTO DEALER and state Kansas total $346,573, from 133 contributions and 14 donors. Nationwide, AUTO DEALER-coded receipts are $12,020,006 from 10,546 contributions and 1,377 donors. Kansas is about 2.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count Kansas dealership licenses?

No. The FEC file does not verify licenses, employers, or headcount. Occupation is the string AUTO DEALER and state is KS. 14 donors are not a state motor-vehicle dealer-license extract. DEALER, CAR DEALER, and AUTOMOBILE DEALER, if stored separately, sit in other hubs. Do not add those cells to Auto Dealer. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

What share of Auto Dealer FEC money is Kansas?

About 2.9% of the $12,020,006 occupation total is in this Kansas join ($346,573). Kansas also accounts for about 1.3% of contributions (133 of 10,546) and about 1.0% of donors (14 of 1,377). Remainder outside Kansas: $11,673,433. Occupation labels are filer-entered; FEC.gov is the source for the join.

Should DEALER dollars be stacked here?

Not as a published split. Donor state is Kansas. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $346,573 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open Kansas campaign finance for every occupation coded to KS; open Auto Dealer donations for every state in the bucket. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins.