Colorado Springs, CO × ACTBLUE FEC join

The join, not the Colorado Springs, CO hub

FEC.gov itemized individual contributions are grouped by donor city and recipient committee. For COLORADO SPRINGS, CO × ACTBLUE, the published overlap is $455,072. Cycle splits, donor names, and receipt counts are absent from the packet. Do not invent a headcount from the dollar figure.

ACTBLUE is the stored name on C00401224. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them. Do not invent donor names. The committee title is a recipient label, not a roster of contributors in Colorado Springs. COLORADO SPRINGS is not Denver. ACTBLUE received $455,072 from that city string against a $32,129,291 book. Other Front Range city keys are other hubs.

All-committee dollars stored as COLORADO SPRINGS

The city book $32,129,291 is not a budget. It is a sum of Schedule A lines that stored this city string. PAC addresses, joint-fundraising addresses, and household streets that stored COLORADO SPRINGS follow the same rule. Leftover after C00401224: $31,674,219.

Colorado Springs is displayed for readers; COLORADO SPRINGS is the grouping key. Titles use Colorado Springs, CO. The leftover $31,674,219 is $32,129,291 minus $455,072 on this extract only. The Colorado hub is a different roll-up.

C00401224 compared with look-alike names

C00401224 is disclosed as ACTBLUE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $455,072 is itemized individual receipts storing city COLORADO SPRINGS and committee C00401224. Other cities giving to ACTBLUE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Committee hubs roll up every city. This join does not. $455,072 is not the committee's national total. Researchers who need the all-city figure must leave this URL for the ACTBLUE hub.

Why 1.42% still leaves $31,674,219

1.42% of $32,129,291 is $455,072 to ACTBLUE (C00401224). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Colorado Springs, CO as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $32,129,291 city book went to other committees. Even when 1.42% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00401224 filter.

The leftover $31,674,219 under the COLORADO SPRINGS city string went to other committees. The Colorado Springs, CO hub holds that remainder. The ACTBLUE page holds receipts whose city field did not store COLORADO SPRINGS. Do not stack this cell with another city's gifts to C00401224; each join is its own filter.

Independent expenditures and other omitted files

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $455,072. Colorado 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 $455,072 as proof that Colorado Springs, CO funded ACTBLUE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Colorado. 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 $455,072 to federal spending in Colorado.

Internal links that keep both nouns

Internal links go to Colorado Springs, CO, ACTBLUE, Colorado campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $32,129,291 book and the committees that received the leftover $31,674,219. The committee page holds C00401224 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: Colorado Springs, CO and ACTBLUE (C00401224). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $455,072 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 $455,072, $32,129,291, 1.42%, leftover $31,674,219, and C00401224.

Questions

What did FEC.gov record from Colorado Springs, CO to ACTBLUE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city COLORADO SPRINGS and recipient ACTBLUE (C00401224) total $455,072 in this extract. That is the join, not Colorado Springs, CO's all-committee book of $32,129,291. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does LobbyVault recode COLORADO SPRINGS to a Census place?

No. COLORADO SPRINGS is the exact stored city string with state CO. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $455,072. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Colorado Springs, CO hub for the all-committee book of $32,129,291.

Is 1.42% of Colorado Springs, CO money going to ACTBLUE?

$455,072 is 1.42% of the $32,129,291 Colorado Springs, CO city book. The leftover $31,674,219 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00401224. Do not upgrade 1.42% into a ranking of civic preference.

Is $455,072 independent expenditure spending by ACTBLUE?

No. The source note states these aggregates are not independent expenditures. $455,072 is itemized individual receipts storing city COLORADO SPRINGS and committee C00401224. IE files, if any, live elsewhere on FEC.gov. Cite FEC.gov for $455,072 from COLORADO SPRINGS to ACTBLUE (C00401224) and $32,129,291 for the Colorado Springs, CO city book.