Donors in Long Beach, CA to AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC.

How Long Beach, CA meets America First Action on the FEC tape

$4,300,000 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city LONG BEACH with state CA, and recipient committee C00637512 disclosed as AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC.. LobbyVault keeps a Long Beach, CA city hub and a committee hub for America First Action. Neither hub is this join. The city hub is every committee that received itemized gifts storing this city string. The committee hub is every city that gave to C00637512. This page is only both filters at once.

AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC. is the stored name on C00637512. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $4,300,000. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them.

City labels are filer-entered. LONG BEACH is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A donor who stored a neighboring city is on another hub. A donor who stored LONG BEACH and a different committee ID is in the leftover $48,835,454 of the city book, not in $4,300,000.

The Long Beach, CA side of the America First Action join

Long Beach, CA’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $53,135,454. $4,300,000 is 8.1% of Long Beach, CA’s $53,135,454 all-committee book. That is a visible slice, not a finding that the city as a civic body directed gifts to America First Action. The leftover $48,835,454 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Long Beach, CA hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in California. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into LONG BEACH. California campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $4,300,000 to the state hub; the state extract already contains these rows when the same tape is used. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $4,300,000 into spending by Long Beach, CA candidates or into independent expenditures by America First Action.

AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC. (C00637512) as the recipient key

C00637512 is disclosed as AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC.. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $4,300,000 is itemized individual receipts storing city LONG BEACH and committee C00637512. Other cities giving to America First Action appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Quote the committee with its FEC ID so a similarly named filing is not swapped in. America First Action on another ID is a different page. This URL is Long Beach, CA × C00637512, not California × C00637512 and not every spelling of LONG BEACH. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $4,300,000, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Long Beach, CA book

8.1% of $53,135,454 is $4,300,000 to AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC. (C00637512). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Long Beach, CA as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $53,135,454 city book went to other committees unless 8.1% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00637512 filter.

The leftover $48,835,454 under the LONG BEACH city string went to other committees. The Long Beach, CA hub holds that remainder. The America First Action page holds receipts whose city field did not store LONG BEACH. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00637512; each join is its own filter.

What the Long Beach, CA × America First Action dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $4,300,000. California state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $4,300,000 as proof that Long Beach, CA “funded” America First Action as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in California. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $4,300,000 to federal spending in California.

Contribution lines can cluster in a few ZIPs or spread across many. This packet does not list those ZIPs or a donor headcount. Open the city hub and the committee hub rather than guessing a postal split from the city string alone.

How to cite the Long Beach, CA × America First Action join

Internal links go to Long Beach, CA, AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC., California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $53,135,454 book and the committees that received the leftover $48,835,454. The committee page holds C00637512 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Long Beach, CA and AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC. (C00637512). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $4,300,000 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot.

Cite $4,300,000, $53,135,454, 8.1%, leftover $48,835,454, and C00637512. Keep both sides named: LONG BEACH as filer-entered city, AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC. as recipient. Motive is outside the packet. Unitemized gifts never appear. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Questions

How much did Long Beach, CA donors give America First Action?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city LONG BEACH and recipient AMERICA FIRST ACTION, INC. (C00637512) total $4,300,000 in this extract. That is the join, not Long Beach, CA’s all-committee book of $53,135,454. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Long Beach, CA total include every spelling of the city name?

No. LONG BEACH is the exact stored city string with state CA. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $4,300,000. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Long Beach, CA hub for the all-committee book of $53,135,454.

What share of Long Beach, CA itemized money went to America First Action?

$4,300,000 is 8.1% of the $53,135,454 Long Beach, CA city book. The leftover $48,835,454 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00637512. Do not upgrade 8.1% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Long Beach, CA America First Action figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $4,300,000 for the Long Beach, CA × C00637512 join and $53,135,454 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.