Marina Del Rey, CA political money — 2014 cycle

Why Marina Del Rey and 2014 need a third URL

A city hub that mixes every cycle cannot tell a reader what 2014 alone produced. A cycle hub that mixes every city cannot tell a reader what Marina Del Rey, CA alone produced. $160,040 is the number that appears only after both filters. 34 is the matching row count — a relatively small itemized file.

2014 accounts for 1.1% of $13,976,854. Other cycles hold $13,816,814 (98.9%). 2014 is a midterm election cycle. Mean itemized size is about $4,707. Those are packet facts, not a ranking of Marina Del Rey against other places.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. The figures are not PAC transfers and not unitemized gifts. They do not assign motive to any contributor.

The California city field

Marina Del Rey is an unincorporated Los Angeles County place often stored under its own city field. Venice, Playa Del Rey, and Santa Monica are other strings. $13,976,854 is that string across cycles, state CA only. Same-named cities in other states are out of this book. California campaign finance still includes every other city in the state; do not add $160,040 on top of that roll-up.

Contributor city is not recipient city. Committees can file anywhere. This page does not allocate $160,040 by office or party and does not invent donor names.

Inside the 2014 window

The Commission tags itemized receipts with a two-year cycle. 2014 is that tag, not a single calendar year. National activity for the window lives on the 2014 election cycle hub. Marina Del Rey, CA's piece of it, in this extract, is $160,040.

Unitemized gifts sit outside the join. Independent expenditures sit outside the join. Federal award obligations sit outside the join. All FEC ties lists other filters; none of them funds USAspending from FEC receipts.

Filer spelling and metro splits

A donor who typed MARINA DEL REY is in $160,040. A donor who typed a neighborhood, employer city, or adjacent suburb is not silently recoded here. Metro areas routinely split across several city pages. 34 counts lines that stored this string in 2014, not a labor-force census.

2014 is a midterm election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a January-to-December cash diary and not a verdict on Marina Del Rey politics. Presidential windows include a presidential general; midterm windows do not. That classification does not explain $160,040. The Commission’s cycle tag on the receipt is the only cycle fact in the packet. Party splits for these 34 lines are not stored here.

Caveats

Amended reports can move $160,040 or $13,976,854. Live hubs win if they disagree with this prose. Correlation is not causation. See Marina Del Rey, CA, the 2014 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov.

34 is a receipt count for Marina Del Rey, CA in 2014, a relatively small itemized file. A household that gave on two dates is two lines. An office or joint-fundraising address stored as MARINA DEL REY sits in the same city field as a residential street. LobbyVault does not convert that field into a Census residency test. Unique-person counts are not in the facts and are not estimated from 34. Mean size of about $4,707 is $160,040 divided by 34, an arithmetic ratio, not a median donor.

Share of the city book is 1.1% because $160,040 divided by $13,976,854 equals that percentage. The complement is 98.9% sitting in $13,816,814. Those shares use only this city aggregate as the denominator. They are not Marina Del Rey's share of California and not Marina Del Rey's share of the national 2014 cycle. Those other denominators are absent from the packet.

Keep CA on the citation. Marina Del Rey is an unincorporated Los Angeles County place often stored under its own city field. Venice, Playa Del Rey, and Santa Monica are other strings. A repeated city name under another postal abbreviation is a different FEC key. $13,976,854 is the CA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system. This join does not allocate $160,040 by office, party, or committee state.

Questions

What is the Marina Del Rey and 2014 join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of contributor city MARINA DEL REY with state CA and election cycle 2014: $160,040 on 34 itemized receipts. The Marina Del Rey, CA hub still mixes other cycles ($13,976,854 citywide). The 2014 cycle hub still mixes other cities. This URL is only the intersection.

Does $160,040 include unitemized Marina Del Rey gifts?

No. $160,040 is itemized Schedule A activity stored with city MARINA DEL REY in cycle 2014. Gifts below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables. The citywide book of $13,976,854 is also an itemized aggregate.

Is $4,707 a typical Marina Del Rey donor in 2014?

No. $4,707 is $160,040 divided by 34 rows. Repeat gifts, large one-time itemizations, and small itemized gifts all sit in that mean. The packet has no median and no unique-person count, so the ratio is arithmetic only, not a household portrait of Marina Del Rey, CA.

Where should I read Marina Del Rey without a 2014 filter?

Open the Marina Del Rey, CA city hub for the $13,976,854 all-cycle book. Open the 2014 election cycle hub for the national two-year window. Open California campaign finance for the state roll-up. All FEC ties lists other city-cycle pages built the same way.