Scottsdale, AZ and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Itemized gifts from Scottsdale, AZ tagged 2008

This packet’s only cycle dollars are $141,629. Its only cycle volume is 122 contributions. Its only city lifetime dollars are $97,390,742. Derived share: 0.15% of the city total in 2008. Derived remainder: $97,249,113. Derived mean: about $1,161 per line. No other dollar amounts appear because none are in the facts.

The join is not a ranking of Scottsdale versus peer cities. It is not a safety ranking, a wealth ranking, or a turnout ranking. It is an FEC city-and-cycle aggregate. The 2008 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2007 from 2008.

Separating Scottsdale from the rest of Arizona

Scottsdale in Arizona is one geographic key. The 2008 cycle is one time key. Together they yield $141,629. The city without the year is $97,390,742. The year without the city is a national cycle page, not a number in this packet. Do not paste a national cycle total into this article.

Scottsdale is stored as SCOTTSDALE in Arizona. Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa are other city keys. Readers comparing Scottsdale to a neighbor should open both city hubs rather than treating this 2008 cell as a city ranking.

Odd-year receipts still inside the 2008 tag

Volume 122 belongs to 2008 only. Do not add contribution counts from other Scottsdale cycle pages into this count. Dollar figure $141,629 likewise belongs to 2008 only. The lifetime city total $97,390,742 already includes this window; adding $141,629 to $97,390,742 would double-count 2008.

The correct comparison is $141,629 inside $97,390,742, about 0.15%, with $97,249,113 in the other stored windows.

What a reader should not infer from $141,629

Independent expenditures mentioning a candidate are not individual contributions and are not inside $141,629. Super PAC spending is not inside $141,629 unless it arrived as an itemized individual receipt that also matched the city and cycle filters — and even then this aggregate does not label the committee type. Keep committee-type pages separate. Keep award pages separate.

Reading paths: city, cycle, state, ties

Print citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle; city SCOTTSDALE, state AZ, cycle 2008, total $141,629, contributions 122; city all-cycle total $97,390,742. Display names: Scottsdale, AZ and 2008 FEC cycle. Join kind: city-cycle. Canonical path /ties/az-scottsdale-2008-donations/.

The overlap in one paragraph

Scottsdale, AZ × 2008 = $141,629 on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts (122 contributions). City key lifetime $97,390,742 (0.15% in this window). Scottsdale is stored as SCOTTSDALE in Arizona. Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa are other city keys. The 2008 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2007 from 2008. No donor names. No award recipients. No claim that gifts fund federal spending. Internal links: /cities/az-scottsdale/, /election-cycles/2008/, /states/AZ/, /ties/. Restating without new facts: Scottsdale, AZ in 2008 is $141,629 from 122 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $97,390,742 across cycles, so this window is about 0.15% and other windows hold $97,249,113. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,161. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2008 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ. Keep both join sides in any reuse of $141,629: donor city Scottsdale, AZ and FEC cycle 2008, sourced from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. The 122 contribution lines are volume for this cell only and are not added to counts from other Scottsdale cycle pages. City lifetime money $97,390,742 already includes the 2008 window; do not add $141,629 to $97,390,742.

Scottsdale, AZ remains one donor-city string on FEC.gov. Cycle 2008 remains one even-year tag. Together they produce $141,629 from 122 itemized individual contributions. The city key still stores $97,390,742 when every stored cycle is included, so 2008 is about 0.15% of that running total and $97,249,113 sits in other windows. Those other windows are not listed here and are not estimated. Mean line size about $1,161 is $141,629 divided by 122, an arithmetic mean rather than a median.

Questions

How much did Scottsdale donors give in 2008?

Quote $141,629 for Scottsdale, AZ in 2008, produced by 122 itemized contributions. Do not quote $97,390,742 as the 2008 amount. $97,390,742 is the city key across cycles. The join exists because the city table and the cycle table share those receipts.

What share of Scottsdale FEC money is 2008?

Share language on this page always means $141,629 as a fraction of $97,390,742 (about 0.15%). It never means a fraction of all FEC dollars in 2008. If you need a national cycle share, you need a number this packet does not contain.

Are Phoenix gifts counted as Scottsdale?

Exact-string matching applies. SCOTTSDALE in AZ is in; other strings are out. Scottsdale is stored as SCOTTSDALE in Arizona. Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa are other city keys. That is why a handmade map of “greater Scottsdale” can disagree with $141,629 without either source being “wrong.”

Where are the Scottsdale and 2008 overlay pages?

City overlay /cities/az-scottsdale/ holds $97,390,742 across cycles. Cycle overlay /election-cycles/2008/ is the 2008 window nationwide. This page is only their overlap at Scottsdale, AZ: $141,629. State hub /states/AZ/ and ties index /ties/ complete the internal link set.