Communications political contributions from Maryland

Communications and Maryland as an industry-word join

Occupation COMMUNICATIONS and donor state MD produce $253,447, 1,307 contributions, and 61 donors. The occupation hub is $6,851,742, 25,152 contributions, and 1,078 donors. Dollar, contribution, and donor shares cluster within a few points (3.7%, 5.2%, 5.7%). Maryland tracks the national Communications mix rather than concentrating one of the three measures. Maryland Communications is a small-dollar slice of an industry-or-title stamp.

Communications is a one-word industry-or-title stamp as typed. Nearby strings — COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, PUBLIC RELATIONS, MEDIA, and PRESS SECRETARY — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $253,447 or $6,851,742. COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR is a longer string with its own hub. A Maryland address is not proof of a Capitol Hill shop.

Sixty-one Maryland donors produced 1,307 contributions, about 21.4 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 23.3 rows per donor nationally (25,152 contributions from 1,078 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this Maryland cell are about $4,155, versus about $6,356 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

COMMUNICATIONS versus Communications Director

COMMUNICATIONS is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify a communications-director seat or a named-employer shop. The national grouping is 1,078 donors, 25,152 contributions, and $6,851,742.

25,152 contributions from 1,078 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. Maryland’s 1,307 contributions from 61 donors is the MD-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Maryland.

Sixty-one Maryland donors on the state key

Sixty-one Maryland donors produced 1,307 contributions totaling $253,447. Donor state MD is the address on the record, not proof of a Maryland professional license, and not a limit to Maryland candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The Maryland campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MD. This join is only COMMUNICATIONS. Subtract $253,447 from $6,851,742 and $6,598,295 remains coded Communications in every other state combined (23,845 contributions, 1,017 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

An industry stamp is not a press-shop census

This page does not measure communications output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Communications-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a Maryland public-affairs census, not a press-shop roster, and not a NAICS recode.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state MD is not recipient geography.

Press titles that remain unmerged

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping $253,447, 1,307 contributions, and 61 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Maryland dollars, or only the Communications national total, drops a key.

Communications donations holds the $6,851,742 national occupation total. Maryland 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. COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, PUBLIC RELATIONS, MEDIA, is a different occupation string if a filer used it.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR is a longer string with its own hub. A Maryland address is not proof of a Capitol Hill shop.

Related FEC tables for Communications and Maryland

Communications donations holds the $6,851,742 national occupation total. Maryland 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.

Questions

How much have Communications donors in Maryland given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Communications and state Maryland total $253,447, from 1,307 contributions and 61 donors. Nationwide, Communications-coded receipts are $6,851,742 from 25,152 contributions and 1,078 donors. Maryland is 3.7% of those dollars.

Does Communications mean press officers in Maryland?

The stored string is COMMUNICATIONS. Some filers use it as a job and some as an industry word. Communications Director, Public Relations, and Press Secretary are other occupation keys. This Maryland join does not recode those compounds into COMMUNICATIONS. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.

What share of Communications FEC money is from Maryland?

3.7% of the $6,851,742 occupation total is in this Maryland join ($253,447). Maryland also accounts for 5.2% of contributions (1,307 of 25,152) and 5.7% of donors (61 of 1,078). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

Does this money go to Maryland candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Maryland. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $253,447 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.