CTO occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

How CTO meets the 2008 cycle

CTO in 2008 is $204,585, not $6,430,020. The larger figure is the occupation total across harvested cycles. Subtracting leaves $6,225,435 in other windows. CTO is the typed abbreviation. This 2008 cell is not the 2012 CTO join. Expanded spellings are other keys.

A reader comparing CTO to a nearby title should switch occupation pages rather than rescale 3.2%. Chief Technology Officer, CTO/CEO, and Chief Technical Officer each need their own cycle cells. This file quotes CTO × 2008 only.

Correlation is not causation. A presidential-year total for CTO 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.

CTO across harvested cycles

Other even-year joins for CTO are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $6,225,435 (96.8%). Citing 2008 as if it were the CTO lifetime total would overstate this cell by $6,225,435.

A later amendment that recodes occupation text can move a receipt out of CTO. That would change 206, 105, and $204,585 together. Until a new harvest, the packet figures stand.

Receipt and donor counts for CTO in 2008

206 remaining larger than 105 is the expected pattern when identities give more than once. Repeat gifts add receipts. 206 is a line count, not 105 one-time gifts. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by CTO.

Contributor keys can cover people who gave in more than one cycle. This page’s 105 count is the 2008 slice under CTO only. Do not treat it as a lifetime donor census for CTO.

Where $204,585 sits inside CTO

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

Other cycles that complete $6,430,020 are not itemized here. $6,225,435 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 CTO. Chief Technology Officer, CTO/CEO, and Chief Technical Officer are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a 2008 tech-officer directory or a venture-backed-startup census.

State and ZIP cuts for CTO in 2008 are unpublished here.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

Using the CTO and 2008 hubs

Keep the three-letter 2008 total on this path. Do not add spelled-out chief technology officer dollars or a later CTO cycle into this overlay. Independent expenditures remain outside the cell. USAspending awards remain a different dataset. Do not write a funding trail from $204,585 to federal obligations.

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

The occupation string CTO is copied from the FEC occupation field without a Bureau of Labor Statistics recode. CTO in 2008 remains $204,585 on 206 itemized lines from 105 donor keys. Neighboring English is a different row.

Readers who need committee names should leave this overlay and open the CTO occupation hub or the 2008 election-cycle hub. Those hubs are linked. This file does not invent committee names, donor names, or award recipients. $204,585 is an individual-contribution sum.

Itemization thresholds mean small gifts can exist outside $204,585. The packet does not estimate that omitted tail. Independent expenditures are a different FEC form class and are omitted from the CTO × 2008 cell. Unitemized receipts are omitted.

The remainder $6,225,435 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 $204,585.

Self-reported occupation is not verified employment. A filer can type CTO while holding a different payroll title. The harvest groups on the typed string. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates remain the source.

This overlay is a two-table join. One side is the CTO occupation hub; the other is the 2008 election-cycle hub. The intersection published here is $204,585 from 206 contributions and 105 donors. Restating only one hub would drop a filter. Title and H1 name both sides. Packet facts are the only numbers cited.

Questions

How is the CTO × 2008 number built?

Sum itemized individual contributions where occupation is CTO and cycle is 2008. The harvest result is $204,585 from 206 receipts and 105 donors. No party or employer split is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source.

Can I add PAC totals to CTO in 2008?

Not on this page. $204,585 is individual receipts. Committee filings, including professional-association PACs, are another FEC table. Mixing them with 206 individual lines would blend form classes. Use the occupation or cycle hub for committee cuts if published there.

Why is CTO not recoded into a standard job code?

Because the facts are the filer-entered string CTO. Recoding into a 2008 tech-officer directory or a venture-backed-startup census would invent a crosswalk. Chief Technology Officer, CTO/CEO, and Chief Technical Officer already show how nearby English splits across keys. Cite $204,585 for this string in 2008.

What remains outside the CTO 2008 cell?

$6,225,435 of the CTO occupation total sits in other cycles. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and other occupation strings are also outside $204,585. Donor names are unpublished. The cell itself is 206 lines from 105 keys.