Why does Pacific Palisades, CA have a separate 2008 page?

Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Pacific Palisades, CA across cycles is $65,378,619. 2008 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city PACIFIC PALISADES in CA during cycle 2008: $164,085 across 171 itemized receipts.

Can I add $164,085 to the California state total?

Do not add it a second time. California campaign-finance pages already include Pacific Palisades when the same extract is used. Double-counting $164,085 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.

What does the 2008 cycle tag mean for Pacific Palisades?

2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Pacific Palisades, CA donors itemized $164,085 on 171 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.

Does this page name Pacific Palisades committees or donors?

No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

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Pacific Palisades, CA political money — 2008 cycle

Dividing $164,085 by 171 Pacific Palisades, CA itemized receipts in cycle 2008 yields a mean of about $960 per line. That ratio is a description of the join, not a typical donor. The same FEC.gov extract stores $65,378,619 for contributor city PACIFIC PALISADES across every cycle in the table. 2008 is a presidential election cycle.

Key figures

The join key is city PACIFIC PALISADES plus cycle 2008: $164,085 and 171 rows.
Pacific Palisades, CA citywide (all cycles) is $65,378,619; remainder outside 2008 is $65,214,534.
Committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.
Amended reports can move either dollar figure; the newer FEC extract controls.
See Pacific Palisades, CA, the 2008 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties.

Mean size versus the 2008 total for Pacific Palisades

$960 uses only two packet numbers: $164,085 and 171 rows. Large itemizations pull the mean up; small itemized gifts pull it down. The packet has no median, no unique-donor count, and no household income field. Reporting the mean without those caveats would overclaim. 171 is a mid-size itemized file.

The headline dollar remains $164,085, the overlap of city PACIFIC PALISADES and cycle 2008. Relative to the $65,378,619 city book, that is 0.25% — a thin slice of the citywide book. Other cycles hold $65,214,534 (99.7%). Share of dollars is not share of rows; a citywide row count is not in these facts.

FEC individual contribution files are Schedule A itemizations. Unitemized gifts below the threshold never enter $164,085. Independent expenditures never enter it. Committee-to-committee transfers are another table. This page does not invent donor names or contractor names.

City string PACIFIC PALISADES in California

Pacific Palisades is a Los Angeles neighborhood that filers often store as its own city string. Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Malibu remain separate FEC keys. The stored value is the filer-entered city on the receipt, not a geocoder's preferred place name. $65,378,619 covers that string across cycles. California campaign finance still mixes Pacific Palisades with every other city in the state.

Keep CA on the key. Same-named places in other states are different FEC rows. Donor city is not recipient city: a CA address does not prove the committee was a California campaign.

Cycle 2008 as a two-year FEC tag

The 2008 election cycle is a Commission tag, a presidential election cycle, not a January-to-December cash diary. Inside that window, Pacific Palisades, CA produced $164,085 on 171 lines. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. This URL isolates one geography.

All FEC ties collects other joins built the same way. None of those pages turns $164,085 into federal award obligations. FEC receipts and USAspending awards share neither a form nor a statute.

Limits of an arithmetic join

Do not rank Pacific Palisades against other cities from this file. Do not call 2008 a wave. Amended reports can revise $164,085 or $65,378,619. Internal links: Pacific Palisades, CA, 2008 election cycle, California campaign finance, All FEC ties. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Source note, restated: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Original reports remain on the Commission site. LobbyVault indexes the join so a reader can hold $164,085 for Pacific Palisades, CA in 2008 without mistaking it for the $65,378,619 city book. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

What stays outside the packet

Occupation, industry, committee ID, and party are not in these facts. Unique residents are not in these facts. State-office money is not in these facts. The operational definition of this page is 171 itemized contributions totaling $164,085 for Pacific Palisades, CA in 2008, against a citywide itemized book of $65,378,619.

Dollar share (0.25%) and row volume (171) are separate facts. A thin dollar slice can sit next to a mid-size itemized file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.25% as Pacific Palisades's share of the 2008 national cycle.

Occupation, industry, and committee cuts of $164,085 are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the 171 receipts by employer, occupation, party, or recipient. Inventing those breakdowns would go beyond the facts. The only names on this page are the stored city string PACIFIC PALISADES, the state CA, and the cycle year 2008.

A candidate who lives in Pacific Palisades can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. A candidate who lives elsewhere can raise money from Pacific Palisades; those gifts are this join when the contributor city stored PACIFIC PALISADES. Residence of the candidate is not a field in this packet. $164,085 is contributor geography in cycle 2008, nothing else.

Questions

Why does Pacific Palisades, CA have a separate 2008 page?: Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Pacific Palisades, CA across cycles is $65,378,619. 2008 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city PACIFIC PALISADES in CA during cycle 2008: $164,085 across 171 itemized receipts.
Can I add $164,085 to the California state total?: Do not add it a second time. California campaign-finance pages already include Pacific Palisades when the same extract is used. Double-counting $164,085 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.
What does the 2008 cycle tag mean for Pacific Palisades?: 2008 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Pacific Palisades, CA donors itemized $164,085 on 171 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.
Does this page name Pacific Palisades committees or donors?: No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.