General Atomics and the 2008 FEC cycle

The General Atomics × 2008 join

LobbyVault stores employer and occupation text as grouped strings and election cycles as two-year tags. Where General Atomics meets 2008, the itemized individual total is $223,966. That is 148 contributions from 66 donors. The figure is not a corporate treasury transfer and does not identify who received the money. Cite FEC.gov.

The general atomics hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub restates a one-key total. This tie keeps both keys. General Atomics is defense-and-energy employer text. GENERAL ATOMIC, GA, and GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL are other keys. Rows that used those other strings are not added into $223,966.

A share of 3.7% versus $6,115,776 is a scale check, not a ranking of cycles and not evidence of a coordinated program. The remaining 96.3% ($5,891,810) lives on other even-year pages for the same string. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain the dollar cell.

Scale: $223,966 versus $6,115,776

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,115,776. The 2008 slice of $223,966 is about 3.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.3% ($5,891,810). Treating 2008 as the entire General Atomics FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $6,115,776 as the denominator for the 3.7% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $6,115,776. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

Gift count, donor count, and $223,966

Dividing $223,966 by 148 contributions yields about $1,513 per itemized gift. Dividing by 66 donors yields about $3,393 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.2. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical-gift claim.

66 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 General Atomics 2008 holds the rows.

The two-year 2008 window

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

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $223,966 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 148 contributions, the 66 unique donors, and the 3.7% share of $6,115,776.

Text match is not a payroll file

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $223,966. 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 defense-and-energy employer text, not a General Atomics PAC, not a DoD contract total, and not USAspending obligations to the company.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 66 donors, and 148 contributions. GENERAL ATOMIC, GA, and GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

A citation that keeps both keys

Start with $223,966, then General Atomics 2008 for rows, then General Atomics or 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: GENERAL ATOMICS, 2008, $223,966, 148 contributions, 66 donors, 3.7% of $6,115,776, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 3.7% share, the 66-donor count, and the $1,513 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 148 itemized contributions totaling $223,966 average about $1,513 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did General Atomics donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $223,966 in itemized individual contributions for the General Atomics grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 148 contributions and 66 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $6,115,776 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of General Atomics FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $6,115,776. The 2008 cell of $223,966 is about 3.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.3% ($5,891,810) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only currently employed General Atomics workers?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string GENERAL ATOMICS. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $223,966 from 66 donors across 148 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the General Atomics 2008 join?

Open General Atomics 2008 for the cycle overlay, General Atomics for the grouping hub, and 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. Cite FEC.gov for $223,966, 148 contributions, and 66 donors.