Dealer contributions to the National Automobile Dealers Association PAC

Majority of a short occupation key

54.1% of Dealer itemized dollars landed on NADA PAC. That is a high share for an occupation-PAC join. $3,810,600 still went to other federal committees. Majority of this key is not majority of every auto-related title. Auto dealer, car dealer, and dealer principal can exist as other occupation strings.

6,625 receipts at mean $677 is a thicker check size than several labor-PAC joins with more lines. The packet still has no unique-donor count and no franchise-brand split. Toyota versus Ford is not a field.

Read Dealer for the occupation hub, NADA PAC for C00040998, All occupations for neighboring titles, and All FEC ties for other joins. General Manager to the same NADA PAC is a sibling page, not a subset of this one.

Keep Dealer → NADA PAC (C00040998): $4,483,011 in 6,625 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties is the index for other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

DEALER as stored

Dealer’s occupation-wide total is $8,293,611. Art dealer, antiques dealer, and auto dealer can share the same four-letter stamp if that is what was typed. This aggregate does not separate them. The committee name supplies the auto-trade context for the join, not a recode of the occupation field.

LobbyVault does not merge dealer principal, general manager, or owner into Dealer. Those keys keep their own occupation totals. Adding them would invent a dealership-workforce recode.

Quote Dealer for the occupation-wide $8,293,611 and quote NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (C00040998) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $4,483,011 across 6,625 itemized receipts, 54.1% of the occupation book, mean $677. Remainder $3,810,600 (45.9%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $4,483,011 to $8,293,611. Do not treat 6,625 as unique donors.

NADA PAC on the recipient side

NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE is C00040998. $4,483,011 is the Dealer occupation slice only. Other occupations on the same PAC—general manager is one documented sibling join—sit outside $4,483,011.

The packet does not publish NADA PAC’s all-occupation total. Do not call $4,483,011 the association’s PAC year. Cite FEC.gov for the live committee file. Independent expenditures are excluded from this join by source note.

Amended Schedule A filings move $4,483,011 and $8,293,611. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. This /ties/ page is a join snapshot, not a substitute for the occupation hub or the committee file on FEC.gov. Coverage stops at itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Unitemized gifts never enter either integer.

What 54.1 percent does not prove

A high share of a short title is not a turnout of every franchise dealer. It is not a NADA membership rate. It is not a ranking of dealers as more political than manufacturers. Manufacturer occupation strings are other keys.

State dealer-association PACs file separately. They are not C00040998. Do not add state PACs to $4,483,011. Coverage is federal itemized individual contributions only.

Keep Dealer → NADA PAC (C00040998): $4,483,011 in 6,625 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties is the index for other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

Citation

FEC.gov: occupation Dealer $8,293,611; Dealer to C00040998 $4,483,011 in 6,625 contributions; mean $677. Not independent expenditures. Not a franchise census.

All FEC ties lists the General Manager–NADA pair as a different join to the same committee. Keep the occupation keys separate.

Questions

How much did Dealer filers give to NADA PAC?

$4,483,011 in 6,625 itemized receipts to C00040998, 54.1% of Dealer’s $8,293,611 occupation total. Mean $677 is total divided by contribution count. Unique donors are not in the packet. Independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Are art dealers in this $4.5 million?

They can be if the occupation line stored Dealer and the recipient was C00040998. The FEC field is the short string, not a NAICS auto-dealer code. The committee name is the National Automobile Dealers Association PAC, which is context for the join, not a recode of every Dealer row.

Is this the same as General Manager money to NADA PAC?

No. General Manager is a different occupation key with its own join to C00040998. Adding the two joins would double-count nothing and would invent a dealership-staff total FEC did not store. Use each /ties/ page separately. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Does 54.1 percent mean most dealers give to NADA?

No. 54.1% is a dollar share of itemized Dealer occupation receipts, not a share of people and not a membership rate. $3,810,600 of the Dealer book went to other federal committees. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.