Tallahassee, FL and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Tallahassee, FL receipts inside the 2008 FEC window

Lead with the join dollars: $134,850. Then name both sides: Tallahassee, FL and the 2008 cycle. Then name volume: 120 itemized contributions. That order keeps a researcher from quoting the city lifetime total $97,995,024 as if it were a single-cycle number. 2008 is about 0.14% of $97,995,024. The remainder $97,860,174 belongs on other cycle pages for the same city string.

The relationship is a filter, not a story about why people in Tallahassee gave. Self-reported city text on FEC Schedule A (and related individual-receipt files) is grouped as stored. Tallahassee is stored as TALLAHASSEE in Florida. Jacksonville, Orlando, and Tampa are other Florida keys. This page does not add those neighbor keys into $134,850.

What the Tallahassee hub still holds

$97,995,024 is the all-cycle figure attached to TALLAHASSEE in FL. It is larger than $134,850 because other even-year tags remain in the city table. Those other tags are not listed in this packet and are not guessed. The only cycle unpacked here is 2008.

City text is self-reported. The FEC does not certify municipal boundaries when a donor writes TALLAHASSEE. A mailing city, a neighborhood label, or an abbreviated city (TALLAHASSEE) can differ from the Census place name. This page follows the stored string, not a GIS join.

What the 2008 FEC window includes

The 2008 tag is a two-year FEC election-cycle window (the even year and the odd year paired with it). This packet does not split 2007 from 2008. If a receipt’s cycle field is 2008 and the city field is TALLAHASSEE in FL, it can sit in $134,850. If either field differs, it does not. That mechanical rule is the whole join.

Cycle hubs are useful for national context. They will not reproduce $134,850. Do not divide a national 2008 total by some assumed Tallahassee share; no such national total is in this packet.

Tables that sit outside the Tallahassee–2008 cell

Recipient committee names are not in the packet, so none are listed. Donor names are not in the packet, so none are listed. Party split, office sought, and employer text are not in the packet. If those dimensions matter, use other LobbyVault hubs rather than padding this join with invented rows. The safe citation remains $134,850 / 120 lines / Tallahassee, FL / 2008 / FEC.gov.

Stable language for the $134,850 cell

If the live Tallahassee, FL hub disagrees with $97,995,024, use the hub. If the live 2008 page or this tie’s overlay disagrees with $134,850, use the live table. This JSON is a packet snapshot. Canonical path: /ties/fl-tallahassee-2008-donations/. All FEC ties (/ties/) lists other two-dimension pages, including other cities in 2008 and other cycles for Tallahassee.

Packet inventory for Tallahassee, FL × 2008

Inventory: city=TALLAHASSEE; state=FL (Florida); cycle=2008; cycleTotal=$134,850; cycleContributions=120; cityTotal=$97,995,024. Derived: share 0.14%; remainder $97,860,174; mean $1,124. Kind=city-cycle. Slug=fl-tallahassee-2008-donations. Voice=nonpartisan FEC transparency. If any later sentence on the live site adds a contractor, a recipient, or a donor, that sentence is outside this JSON. Restating without new facts: Tallahassee, FL in 2008 is $134,850 from 120 itemized individual contributions on FEC.gov. The city string stores $97,995,024 across cycles, so this window is about 0.14% and other windows hold $97,860,174. Arithmetic mean per line is about $1,124. Unique donors, recipient committees, party split, and USAspending dollars are not in the packet. Live overlays at the city hub, the 2008 hub, and All FEC ties outrank this snapshot if they differ. Keep both join sides in any reuse of $134,850: donor city Tallahassee, FL and FEC cycle 2008, sourced from FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. The 120 contribution lines are volume for this cell only and are not added to counts from other Tallahassee cycle pages.

Questions

How much did Tallahassee donors give in 2008?

The 2008 cell for Tallahassee, FL is $134,850 across 120 itemized individual contributions. FEC.gov is the source. The same city string stores $97,995,024 when every cycle is included, so 2008 is about 0.14% of that running sum. No donor names are published in this aggregate.

What share of Tallahassee FEC money is 2008?

$134,850 divided by $97,995,024 is about 0.14%. Remainder $97,860,174 belongs to other cycles stored on the same TALLAHASSEE key. Do not read the percentage as a share of Florida giving or of all 2008 itemized gifts. Those denominators are absent from the packet.

Does this include all Florida capital-region cities?

Only the FEC city field TALLAHASSEE with state FL is in this cell. Neighboring towns, metro labels, and other spellings of Tallahassee are other keys. Tallahassee is stored as TALLAHASSEE in Florida. Jacksonville, Orlando, and Tampa are other Florida keys. The 2008 dollars remain $134,850 on that exact string.

Where are the Tallahassee and 2008 overlay pages?

Use /cities/fl-tallahassee/ for Tallahassee, FL without a year filter, /election-cycles/2008/ for the 2008 cycle without a city filter, /states/FL/ for statewide Florida context, and /ties/ for other two-dimension pages. This tie stays on $134,850 and 120 lines. Overlay pages are the current record if numbers move.