Communications political contributions from District of Columbia

The Communications–District of Columbia intersection

Occupation COMMUNICATIONS and donor state DC produce $712,643, 2,468 contributions, and 101 donors. The occupation hub is $6,851,742, 25,152 contributions, and 1,078 donors. District of Columbia’s dollar share is about 10.4%; contribution share about 9.8% (2,468 of 25,152); donor share about 9.4% (101 of 1,078). One hundred one D.C. donors sit inside 1,078 national COMMUNICATIONS donors. Dollars ($712,643 of $6,851,742) and rows (2,468 of 25,152) both run near one-tenth of the national occupation.

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, and PRESS SECRETARY, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack COMMUNICATIONS with PUBLIC AFFAIRS or COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR into a single District of Columbia professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

101 District of Columbia donors produced 2,468 contributions, about 24.4 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 23.3 rows per donor nationally (25,152 contributions from 1,078 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this District of Columbia cell is about $289, against about $272 nationwide. A double-digit share of a $6.9 million occupation is still not a White House or Hill communications census. DC is the donor-state code for the District, not a recipient geography.

COMMUNICATIONS as a workplace label

COMMUNICATIONS is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not say whether the filer meant corporate communications, political press work, or telecom. The $6,851,742 national total is COMMUNICATIONS only. 1,078 donors produced 25,152 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 25,152 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to District of Columbia (DC). Twenty-five thousand one hundred fifty-two national contributions make this a mid-volume bucket. This tie locates the District overlap.

District of Columbia as donor state

101 District of Columbia donors produced 2,468 contributions totaling $712,643. Donor state DC is the address on the record, not proof of a District of Columbia license, and not a limit to District of Columbia candidates. DC is the address on the itemized record. One hundred one unique donors is not a National Press Club roster and not a map of which campaigns received the $712,643.

The District of Columbia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to DC. This join is only COMMUNICATIONS. The Communications occupation hub without District of Columbia still holds about 89.6% of the $6,851,742. The District’s state hub includes every occupation coded to DC. COMMUNICATIONS is only this filter.

What not to infer from Communications plus D.C.

This page does not count press secretaries, rank K Street shops, or claim that Communications-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. COMMUNICATIONS is not CONSULTING and not PUBLIC AFFAIRS even when filers meant adjacent roles.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. COMMUNICATIONS is not a press-corps extract. Donor state DC is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Communications filter

Subtract the District of Columbia dollars on this page from the national COMMUNICATIONS occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded COMMUNICATIONS in every other state combined. That remainder ($6,139,099) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 101 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 2,468 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $712,643 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the District of Columbia dollars, or only the COMMUNICATIONS national total, drops a key. One hundred one donors producing 2,468 contributions totaling $712,643 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Communications donations holds the $6,851,742 national occupation total. District of Columbia campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. CONSULTING, SENIOR VP, and MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT are other District occupation ties in this slice.

Questions

How much have Communications donors in D.C. given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation COMMUNICATIONS and state District of Columbia total $712,643, from 2,468 contributions and 101 donors. Nationwide, COMMUNICATIONS-coded receipts are $6,851,742 from 25,152 contributions and 1,078 donors. District of Columbia is about 10.4% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Communications mean political press staff?

The file does not say. COMMUNICATIONS is the string on the form. One hundred one District donors used that label plus DC. Longer titles sit in other buckets if filers used them. The 101 District of Columbia donors used occupation COMMUNICATIONS and state DC. Filers who wrote PUBLIC AFFAIRS or PRESS SECRETARY may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Communications FEC money is from D.C.?

About 10.4% of the $6,851,742 occupation total is in this District of Columbia join ($712,643). District of Columbia also accounts for about 9.8% of contributions (2,468 of 25,152) and about 9.4% of donors (101 of 1,078). About one-tenth of a relatively small national occupation total sits in this District join.

Does this money go to D.C. candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is District of Columbia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $712,643 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to DC; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.