Pasadena, CA political money in the 2014 election cycle

How Pasadena meets the 2014 election cycle

$259,724 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city PASADENA with state CA, and election cycle 2014. LobbyVault stores that join so a reader can open the Pasadena, CA city hub and the 2014 election cycle hub without treating either page as a substitute for this one. The city hub answers how much itemized money this city string has produced across cycles. The cycle hub answers how much itemized money that two-year federal window produced nationally. This page answers only the intersection: Pasadena, CA in 2014.

81 is a receipt count for that intersection, not a unique-donor census. A person who gave twice is two lines. A PAC or joint-fundraising address that stored PASADENA is in the same city field as a household street. Arithmetic mean per line is about $3,206 ($259,724 ÷ 81). That mean is division, not a typical resident and not a median.

2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $259,724. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix for the join. Cite the two packet dollars — $259,724 for the 2014 slice and $69.2 million for the Pasadena, CA book — and stop before assigning motive.

The Pasadena, CA side of the join

Across cycles in this extract, contributor city PASADENA in California totals $69.2 million ($69,184,320). $259,724 is 0.4% of that city book. A small share does not mean 2014 was quiet in Pasadena; it means later or earlier cycles in the same city string can dwarf a single window. The remaining $68,924,596 in the city book sits in other even-year tags. The live Pasadena, CA table is the place to compare other years. This snapshot lists one cycle.

The stored city sits in Los Angeles County, California. Glendale and Altadena are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into PASADENA. State CA stays on the citation so Pasadena is not merged with a same-named place in another state. A repeated city name under another state code is a different FEC key. $69.2 million is the CA key only. Donor city is not recipient city: committees that received these gifts can file from anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for California filers in Pasadena

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is not a calendar year of January gifts only; it is the Commission's cycle tag on itemized receipts. 81 Pasadena, CA lines in that window produced $259,724. National 2014 activity — every city — lives on the 2014 election cycle hub, not here. A midterm label marks the even-year window that includes a congressional midterm, not a finding about turnout in Pasadena.

California campaign-finance pages roll up the state, including cities that are not Pasadena. Do not add $259,724 to a state total from that hub; the state page already contains this city when the same extract is used. All FEC ties is the directory of other city-cycle and city-industry joins. None of those pages converts $259,724 into spending by Pasadena candidates. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted from both $259,724 and the $69.2 million city book.

What $259,724 does not measure

$259,724 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city PASADENA. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in California file under state law and sit outside it. Independent-expenditure totals are a different FEC table. A candidate who lives in Pasadena can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. PAC transfers and committee-to-committee activity are other files.

City labels are filer-entered. A donor who typed PASADENA is counted; a donor who typed a neighborhood, a firm city, or a nearby suburb is not recoded into Pasadena. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place or a residency test. Treat 81 as lines that stored this string in 2014. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed.

Reading Pasadena and 2014 together without mixing tables

Correlation is not causation. $259,724 beside $69.2 million does not mean 2014 caused the city book or that Pasadena drove the 2014 cycle. The join is a filter: city string plus cycle tag. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Pasadena, CA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Internal links on this page go to Pasadena, CA, the 2014 election cycle, California campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. Do not paste $259,724 into a USAspending award story; FEC receipts and federal obligations are different statutes. This packet has no award dollars, and itemized giving is not a proxy for public opinion in California.

A 0.4% cut of the Pasadena stack

0.4% of $69.2 million is a slice, not a ranking. Put another way, $259,724 of the $69,184,320 city stack was tagged 2014, and $68,924,596 was tagged other cycles. Those percentages are $259,724 divided by $69,184,320 and $68,924,596 divided by $69,184,320. They are not shares of California totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters. Dollar share (0.4%) and row volume (81 itemized gifts) are separate facts.

Do not treat 0.4% as Pasadena's share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Adjacent presidential windows for the same city string are other joins. This URL isolates Pasadena × 2014 only: $259,724, 81 receipts, mean about $3,206. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle.

Questions

How much did Pasadena, CA donors give in 2014?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city PASADENA and cycle 2014 total $259,724 across 81 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Pasadena, CA book of $69.2 million. Unitemized gifts and California state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $259,724 all of Pasadena's federal political money?

No. $69.2 million ($69,184,320) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city PASADENA in CA. The 2014 slice is $259,724, 0.4% of that book. Other cycles hold $68,924,596. 81 is a 2014 receipt count, not a unique-donor count.

Did Pasadena, CA 2014 donations stay in California?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Pasadena, CA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $259,724 by office, state of the committee, or party. A CA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of California races.

How many Pasadena, CA contributions were itemized in 2014?

81 itemized contribution records sum to $259,724. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $3,206 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.