Doctor of Optometry political contributions from Tennessee

Doctor of Optometry and Tennessee as a degree-title join

45 Tennessee donors produced 382 contributions totaling $152,594. That is 2.6% of the $5,866,385 Doctor of Optometry occupation total. Correlation is not causation: occupation does not cause the gifts, and Tennessee as donor state does not cause recipient geography.

Rows per donor in the Tennessee cell average 8.5, versus about 11.5 nationally for DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY. Repeat itemization can lift the contribution count without lifting unique donors. Unitemized gifts under the FEC itemization threshold never enter either total.

This relationship is a bookkeeping join on two fields from FEC.gov. It is not a Tennessee optometry-board license extract, an AOA membership roll, or a clinic census. Tennessee optometry licenses are not matched to DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY.

DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY versus OPTOMETRIST as separate labels

Filers typed DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY. The FEC does not rewrite that text into a standard occupational taxonomy. Tennessee optometry licenses are not matched to DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY. Nationwide, 1,912 donors produced 21,990 contributions totaling $5,866,385.

Keep Doctor of Optometry on its own Tennessee page. Mixing it with a sibling string would double-count some people and miss others, and this packet has no counts for those other strings. The Tennessee cell is only the DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY × TN overlap: $152,594, 382 contributions, 45 donors.

Forty-five Tennessee Doctor of Optometry donors

45 Tennessee donors produced 382 contributions totaling $152,594. Donor state TN is the address on the contribution record, not proof of a Tennessee workplace, and not a limit to Tennessee candidates.

The Tennessee campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to TN. This join is only DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY. OPTOMETRIST, OPHTHALMOLOGIST, and OD, if used, sit in other occupation hubs. They are not this page even when they share the TN state code.

Doctor of Optometry donations without Tennessee still holds the remainder of the $5,866,385 occupation total ($5,713,791). A Tennessee directory of workplaces would need employment data this FEC join does not contain.

A degree string is not a board roster

Tennessee optometry licenses are not matched to DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered.

Independent expenditures, party coordinated spends, and committee-to-committee transfers are other FEC tables. They are not added into $152,594. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not name committees or donors.

Read the three Tennessee counts as one cell: $152,594 dollars, 382 contributions, 45 donors. Read the three national Doctor of Optometry counts as the other: $5,866,385, 21,990, 1,912. Percentages (2.6% of dollars, 1.7% of rows, 2.4% of donors) are ratios of those six integers. No election cycle is named in these aggregates, so the totals are the LobbyVault FEC extract window rather than a single even-year cycle. Forty-five Tennessee donors produced 382 itemized rows inside a 1,912-donor national Doctor of Optometry bucket.

Doctor of Optometry dollars outside Tennessee

Subtract the Tennessee dollars on this page from the national Doctor of Optometry occupation total and the difference is $5,713,791 still coded Doctor of Optometry in every other state combined. That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. Doctor of Optometry donations holds the unlabeled-by-state total; Tennessee campaign finance holds every occupation with this state code; all occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other joins built the same way.

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 all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Tennessee dollars, or only the Doctor of Optometry national total, drops a key.

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. Tn od-degree overlap is the unit: DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY × TN = $152,594.

Related tables for Doctor of Optometry and Tennessee

Doctor of Optometry donations holds the $5,866,385 national occupation total and the 1,912-donor count. Tennessee campaign finance holds all itemized individual activity coded to TN. All occupations and all FEC ties place this pair among other occupation-state intersections. None of those hubs is a substitute for quoting $152,594, 382 contributions, and 45 donors together.

Questions

How much have Doctor of Optometry donors in Tennessee contributed?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Doctor of Optometry and state Tennessee total $152,594, from 382 contributions and 45 donors. Nationwide, Doctor of Optometry-coded receipts are $5,866,385 from 21,990 contributions and 1,912 donors. Tennessee is 2.6% of those dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Are these licensed Tennessee optometrists?

The FEC file does not verify licenses or registrations. Occupation is DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY and state is TN. The 45 Tennessee donors produced $152,594 across 382 contributions. Tennessee optometry licenses are not matched to DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY. This is not a Tennessee optometry-board license extract, an AOA membership roll, or a clinic census.

Is Doctor of Optometry the same FEC bucket as Optometrist?

Tennessee holds 2.6% of the $5,866,385 occupation total ($152,594). Tennessee also accounts for 1.7% of contributions (382 of 21,990) and 2.4% of donors (45 of 1,912). DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY is a filer-entered string. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Sibling labels are other hubs.

Do Tennessee OD gifts stay in Tennessee races?

No. Donor state is Tennessee. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $152,594 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. The 382 contributions and 45 donors are the DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY-and-TN overlap only. FEC.gov is the source.