Drexel Burnham Lambert and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Legacy employer spelling × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Drexel Burnham Lambert and 2008 — sum to $299,572. The cell holds 159 itemized contributions and 45 unique donors. 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 Drexel Burnham Lambert hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Drexel Burnham Lambert as a 2008 employer string is legacy text. Forty-five donors and 159 lines are people who still typed that name on receipts in the 2008 cycle. The FEC field is not a 1980s headcount and not proof the firm still operated as a going concern that year. DREXEL BURNHAM, DREXEL, and successor or alumni employer strings are other keys. This page is the three-word historical firm name.

7.3% of the Drexel Burnham Lambert roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,097,329 ($4.1 million). The 2008 slice of $299,572 is about 7.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.7%. Treating 2008 as the Drexel Burnham Lambert FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,097,329 as the denominator for the 7.3% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $4,097,329.

159 contributions from 45 donors

Dividing $299,572 by 159 contributions yields about $1,884 per itemized gift. Dividing by 45 donors yields about $6,657 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.5. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

45 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 Drexel Burnham Lambert 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Drexel Burnham Lambert is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Drexel Burnham Lambert to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $299,572 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 159 contributions, the 45 unique donors, and the 7.3% share of $4,097,329.

Why successor labels stay off this page

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $299,572. 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 securities NAICS total and not a defunct-firm PAC still spending in 2008.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 45 donors, and 159 contributions. DREXEL BURNHAM, DREXEL, and successor or alumni employer strings are other keys. This page is the three-word historical firm name. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Drexel Burnham Lambert and 2008 together

Start with $299,572, then Drexel Burnham Lambert 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Drexel Burnham Lambert, 2008, $299,572, 159 contributions, 45 donors, 7.3% of $4,097,329, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.3% share, the 45-donor count, and the $1,884 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 Drexel Burnham Lambert donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $299,572 in itemized individual contributions for the Drexel Burnham Lambert grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 159 contributions and 45 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,097,329 all-cycle figure.

What share of Drexel Burnham Lambert FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,097,329. The 2008 cell of $299,572 is about 7.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.7% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Drexel Burnham Lambert hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Should successor or longer spellings be added to this 2008 total?

No. This page is the stored string Drexel Burnham Lambert only. Successor labels and longer legal names are different groupings with their own cycle cells. Combining them would invent a total neither packet publishes as a join. The 2008 cell here is $299,572.

Where is the overlay for the Drexel Burnham Lambert 2008 join?

Open Drexel Burnham Lambert 2008 for the cycle overlay, Drexel Burnham Lambert for the grouping hub, and the 2008 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.