Geologist political contributions from Colorado

Joining Geologist with Colorado on FEC receipts

The occupation field and the donor-state field are independent on an itemized individual contribution. This tie retains rows where occupation is GEOLOGIST and state is CO. The retained set is $819,846, 1,674 contributions, and 128 donors. The occupation without a state screen is $9,308,121, 24,898 contributions, and 1,311 donors. Colorado holds about 8.8% of Geologist-coded dollars, about 6.7% of Geologist-coded contribution rows, and about 9.8% of Geologist-coded donors.

Donor share (about 9.8%) runs a little ahead of dollar share (about 8.8%). Contribution-row share (about 6.7%) runs behind both. The join is therefore a moderately broad Colorado presence inside a national label, not a one-donor spike and not a flood of tiny rows. Those percentages describe the overlap. They do not measure Colorado’s extractive economy or anyone’s policy preference.

Geologist as a national occupation bucket

GEOLOGIST is the string as typed. Related labels—GEOLOGY, PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST, RETIRED GEOLOGIST—are other pages if filers used those words. The national bucket is $9,308,121 from 1,311 donors and 24,898 contributions. That is a many-row occupation: thousands of itemized gifts spread across a four-digit donor count.

Nothing in the FEC occupation field confirms a degree, a license, or current employment in earth science. The totals are the labeled receipts. This tie’s only extra filter is Colorado as donor state.

Colorado’s slice of the Geologist totals

One hundred twenty-eight Colorado donors produced 1,674 contributions totaling $819,846. That is a visible but limited share of the national Geologist label. Other Colorado occupations are excluded. Geologist receipts from other states account for the remainder up to $9,308,121.

CO on the record is a mailing-state code for the contributor, not a statement that the recipient is a Colorado candidate or that the work was done in Colorado. Federal committees anywhere can receive these itemized gifts. This page does not assign the $819,846 to Senate, House, presidential, or PAC committees.

A second state uses the same occupation string

Geologist is not unique to Colorado in the FEC file. The national 1,311 donors and $9,308,121 already include every other donor state that used the same occupation string. A separate Oklahoma join, if published, would be a different intersection with its own dollar, contribution, and donor counts. Those two state filters do not add to a closed national total unless every state is enumerated; they are overlapping views of one occupation column.

Treat each occupation-state page as a pairwise cut. Adding Colorado’s $819,846 to another state’s Geologist total is fine as arithmetic only if you remember the national ceiling is still $9,308,121, not a stacked ranking of states.

A second look at 128 donors inside 1,311

Colorado’s Geologist join is $819,846 from 128 donors and 1,674 contributions against $9,308,121 from 1,311 donors and 24,898 contributions nationwide. About 8.8% of dollars, about 9.8% of donors, and about 6.7% of rows: donor share slightly leads dollar share, and row share trails both. The join is a moderately broad Colorado presence, not a one-donor spike.

An Oklahoma Geologist page uses the same $9,308,121 national ceiling and a different state filter. The two pages are not a ranking of extractive states. PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST, if filed, is another bucket. Employer is not in this packet.

Photographer, Secretary, and Sales Manager also use Colorado. They share CO only. Itemized individual receipts only. See Geologist donations, Colorado campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Limits of reading geology into campaign finance

This join does not rank Colorado as more or less geology-driven than other states, and it does not claim donations from geologists fund federal awards or state budgets. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. Here, two FEC columns met.

Unitemized giving and independent expenditures are omitted. For context without the join, see Geologist donations, Colorado campaign finance, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Questions

How much have Geologist donors in Colorado given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Geologist and state Colorado total $819,846. That join includes 1,674 contributions and 128 donors. Nationwide, Geologist-coded receipts are $9,308,121 from 1,311 donors and 24,898 contributions. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What share of national Geologist giving is Colorado?

Colorado’s $819,846 is about 8.8% of the $9,308,121 national Geologist total. The state has 128 of 1,311 donors (about 9.8%) and 1,674 of 24,898 contributions (about 6.7%). Those shares describe the join, not a ranking of states.

Are these oil and gas geologists?

The occupation field is GEOLOGIST as entered. It does not encode employer or industry. Nationally the label covers 1,311 donors and $9,308,121. This page only adds the Colorado donor-state filter. Employer strings, when present on raw receipts, are not aggregated here.

Does Colorado as donor state mean Colorado campaigns?

No. The state field is the contributor’s coded state. Recipients can be any FEC committee. This page does not split the $819,846 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state committees Donor state is the address on the itemized individual record, not a map of Colorado races. This join is $819,846 from 128 donors and 1,674 contributions against $9,308,121 nationwide. Recipients can be committees anywhere in the FEC system.