General Contractor donations in the 2010 FEC cycle

General Contractor is one axis; 2010 is the other

An occupation-cycle page is not a restatement of General Contractor and not a restatement of 2010. It is the cell where they meet: $474,982, 473 contributions, 272 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle are the source note.

On the occupation side, General Contractor is the exact string GENERAL CONTRACTOR. On the cycle side, 2010 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $474,982. Residential versus commercial versus public-works contracting is unpublished.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $8,993,979 is the lifetime General Contractor bucket. The 2010 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $474,982. GENERAL CONTRACTOR in 2010 is a different midterm window from the 2014 general-contractor join. Electrical contractor is a neighboring specialty string.

2010 is not the whole General Contractor story

General Contractor across all cycles is $9.0 million ($8,993,979). General Contractor in 2010 is $474,982 — 5.3%. The gap is $8,518,997. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2010 overlay still sees $474,982 for this string, not $8,993,979. A reader who only opens the occupation hub still needs the year filter to recover $474,982.

What 272 unique donors are not

272 unique donors are not a census of General Contractor. They are the identities attached to 473 itemized rows that summed to $474,982. Mean gift $1,004; mean per donor $1,746; about 1.7 rows each.

Household reuse of a title string is common on FEC forms. That does not add extra occupations into $474,982; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have.

How FEC cycle 2010 works on this join

Cycle 2010 is the second key in the join. Combined with GENERAL CONTRACTOR, it produces $474,982. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of General Contractor. GENERAL CONTRACTOR in 2010 is a different midterm window from the 2014 general-contractor join. Electrical contractor is a neighboring specialty string.

Self-reported fields and missing tables

Missing from this packet: party split, employer list, recipient committees, median gift, and residential versus commercial versus public-works contracting. Those omissions are why the page is a join brief rather than a full filing dump.

What remains is enough for a clean citation: General Contractor × 2010 = $474,982 on 473 receipts from 272 donors, 5.3% of $8,993,979. Source: FEC.gov. GENERAL CONTRACTOR in 2010 is a different midterm window from the 2014 general-contractor join. Electrical contractor is a neighboring specialty string.

Two filters, one URL

Two filters produced this URL: occupation GENERAL CONTRACTOR and cycle 2010. The product is $474,982. One filter is not enough. That is why General Contractor donations and the 2010 election cycle remain parent links rather than substitutes.

All FEC ties is the index if the next question is a different occupation-year pair. All occupations is the index if the next question is a neighboring title such as contractor, builder, construction, and electrical contractor.

Repeat the join in one line for researchers: occupation GENERAL CONTRACTOR ∩ cycle 2010 = $474,982 itemized individual contributions, 473 receipts, 272 donors, 5.3% of $8,993,979. Neighbors remain contractor, builder, construction, and electrical contractor. Unpublished split: residential versus commercial versus public-works contracting. Not recoded into a state contractor-license roster, a NAICS construction rollup, or a bonding-company census. Source remains FEC.gov. GENERAL CONTRACTOR in 2010 is a different midterm window from the 2014 general-contractor join. Electrical contractor is a neighboring specialty string.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged General Contractor in 2010?

Filers who listed General Contractor itemized $474,982 in FEC individual contributions in 2010, from 473 receipts and 272 donors. That is 5.3% of $8,993,979 under GENERAL CONTRACTOR. Contractor, builder, construction, and electrical contractor are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Is $474,982 a PAC total for General Contractor?

No. $474,982 is individual contributions tagged General Contractor in 2010. AGC-style and contractor-association PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $474,982 would blend FEC tables. See General Contractor donations or the 2010 election cycle hub for committee names. General Contractor in 2010 is $474,982 on 473 receipts from 272 donors.

Is General Contractor the same as contractor?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses GENERAL CONTRACTOR. Contractor, builder, construction, and electrical contractor are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a state contractor-license roster, a NAICS construction rollup, or a bonding-company census. Cite $474,982 for this title in 2010 on 473 receipts from 272 donors.

Is this the General Contractor hub or the 2010 hub?

General Contractor donations ($9.0 million for the string) and the 2010 election cycle. The overlap is $474,982 from 473 receipts and 272 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for General Contractor in 2010.