Consultant political money — 2010 cycle

Consultant as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Consultant and 2010 — sum to $3,861,676. 4,194 itemized contributions and 1,288 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Consultant hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Consultant is a self-reported title, not a professional-license file and not a consulting-industry NAICS roll-up. 1,288 donors and 4,194 lines in 2010 matched that word. CONSULTING, MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, CONSULTANT/OWNER, and named consulting firms sit in other keys. This page is the stored string CONSULTANT.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open Consultant 2010 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2010 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the Consultant 2010 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $3,861,676, 4,194 contributions, 1,288 donors, and 4.2% of $91,820,178.

4.2% of the Consultant roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $91,820,178. The 2010 slice of $3,861,676 is about 4.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.8% ($87,958,502). Treating 2010 as the Consultant FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $91,820,178 as the denominator for the 4.2% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $91,820,178.

A 4.2% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same Consultant hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open Consultant to drop the year filter. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

4,194 contributions from 1,288 donors

Dividing $3,861,676 by 4,194 contributions yields about $921 per itemized gift. Dividing by 1,288 donors yields about $2,998 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

1,288 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Consultant 2010 holds the rows.

4,194 is a receipt count, not a unique-person census beyond the 1,288 donor figure already in the packet. A person who gave twice is two lines inside the 4,194. Unitemized gifts never appear in $3,861,676.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Consultant is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Consultant to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $3,861,676 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 4,194 contributions, the 1,288 unique donors, and the 4.2% share of $91,820,178.

2010 is a midterm federal cycle on FEC.gov. That calendar label does not explain $3,861,676. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix beyond the stored string CONSULTANT. Cite the two packet dollars — $3,861,676 for the 2010 slice and $91,820,178 for the Consultant book — and stop before assigning motive.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $3,861,676. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a consultants PAC and not a management-consulting NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 1,288 donors, and 4,194 contributions. CONSULTING, MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, CONSULTANT/OWNER, and named consulting firms sit in other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not read $3,861,676 as proof that Consultant “drove” the 2010 cycle or that 2010 “drove” the Consultant book. The join is two fields. If the live hubs disagree with $3,861,676 or 1,288 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Citing Consultant and 2010 together

Start with $3,861,676, then Consultant 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Consultant, 2010, $3,861,676, 4,194 contributions, 1,288 donors, 4.2% of $91,820,178, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string CONSULTANT.

The 4.2% share, the 1,288-donor count, and the $921 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Consultant donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $3,861,676 in itemized individual contributions for the Consultant grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 4,194 contributions and 1,288 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $91,820,178 all-cycle figure.

What share of Consultant FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $91,820,178. The 2010 cell of $3,861,676 is about 4.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.8% ($87,958,502) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Consultant hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed Consultant donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string CONSULTANT. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2010 only, totaling $3,861,676 from 1,288 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Consultant 2010 join?

Open Consultant 2010 for the cycle overlay, Consultant for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.