Chief of Staff donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

How Chief of Staff meets the 2008 cycle

Chief of Staff in 2008 is $286,154, not $6,890,531. The larger figure is the occupation total across harvested cycles. Subtracting leaves $6,604,377 in other windows. CHIEF OF STAFF is the typed title. Public versus private employer is unpublished. Deputy titles are other keys if the characters differ.

A reader comparing Chief of Staff to a nearby title should switch occupation pages rather than rescale 4.2%. Deputy Chief of Staff, COS, and Chief of Staff to each need their own cycle cells. This file quotes CHIEF OF STAFF × 2008 only.

Correlation is not causation. A presidential-year total for Chief of Staff does not prove motive, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset. FEC individual receipts and USAspending awards are different tables.

Chief of Staff across harvested cycles

Other even-year joins for CHIEF OF STAFF are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $6,604,377 (95.8%). Citing 2008 as if it were the Chief of Staff lifetime total would overstate this cell by $6,604,377.

A later amendment that recodes occupation text can move a receipt out of CHIEF OF STAFF. That would change 372, 156, and $286,154 together. Until a new harvest, the packet figures stand.

Receipt and donor counts for Chief of Staff in 2008

372 remaining larger than 156 is the expected pattern when identities give more than once. Repeat gifts add receipts. 372 is a line count, not 156 one-time gifts. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by CHIEF OF STAFF.

Contributor keys can cover people who gave in more than one cycle. This page’s 156 count is the 2008 slice under CHIEF OF STAFF only. Do not treat it as a lifetime donor census for Chief of Staff.

Where $286,154 sits inside Chief of Staff

The national 2008 hub still includes every other occupation. Occupation pages for Chief of Staff still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Chief of Staff × 2008.

Other cycles that complete $6,890,531 are not itemized here. $6,604,377 is the residual only. Naming those other years would invent packet fields.

Itemized individual receipts only

FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses CHIEF OF STAFF. Deputy Chief of Staff, COS, and Chief of Staff to are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a congressional-staff directory, a gubernatorial org chart, or a corporate COS census.

State and ZIP cuts for Chief of Staff in 2008 are unpublished here. Adding a geography claim would invent a dimension. Stick to occupation × cycle.

Using the Chief of Staff and 2008 hubs

Chief-of-staff strings appear in legislatures, agencies, and companies. This packet does not say which. CHIEF OF STAFF is the form text, not a verified office. Independent expenditures remain outside the cell. USAspending awards remain a different dataset. Do not write a funding trail from $286,154 to federal obligations.

Do not rank Chief of Staff as more or less politically active than another title. This packet has one occupation and one cycle. Comparison requires other cells.

The occupation string CHIEF OF STAFF is copied from the FEC occupation field without a Bureau of Labor Statistics recode. Chief of Staff in 2008 remains $286,154 on 372 itemized lines from 156 donor keys. Neighboring English is a different row.

Readers who need committee names should leave this overlay and open the Chief of Staff occupation hub or the 2008 election-cycle hub. Those hubs are linked. This file does not invent committee names, donor names, or award recipients. $286,154 is an individual-contribution sum.

Itemization thresholds mean small gifts can exist outside $286,154. The packet does not estimate that omitted tail. Independent expenditures are a different FEC form class and are omitted from the Chief of Staff × 2008 cell. Unitemized receipts are omitted.

The remainder $6,604,377 belongs to other harvested cycles under the same occupation string. This page does not name those other years because they are not packet fields. Quote 2008 only for $286,154.

Questions

How is the Chief of Staff × 2008 number built?

Sum itemized individual contributions where occupation is CHIEF OF STAFF and cycle is 2008. The harvest result is $286,154 from 372 receipts and 156 donors. No party or employer split is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source.

Can I add PAC totals to Chief of Staff in 2008?

Not on this page. $286,154 is individual receipts. Committee filings, including professional-association PACs, are another FEC table. Mixing them with 372 individual lines would blend form classes. Use the occupation or cycle hub for committee cuts if published there.

Why is Chief of Staff not recoded into a standard job code?

Because the facts are the filer-entered string CHIEF OF STAFF. Recoding into a congressional-staff directory, a gubernatorial org chart, or a corporate COS census would invent a crosswalk. Deputy Chief of Staff, COS, and Chief of Staff to already show how nearby English splits across keys. Cite $286,154 for this string in 2008.

What remains outside the Chief of Staff 2008 cell?

$6,604,377 of the Chief of Staff occupation total sits in other cycles. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and other occupation strings are also outside $286,154. Donor names are unpublished. The cell itself is 372 lines from 156 keys.