Greer Industries political money — 2008 cycle

Greer Industries as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Greer Industries and 2008 — sum to $7,174,450. 14 itemized contributions and 1 unique donor produced it. The total is not a corporate treasury gift and is not the company’s PAC. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Greer Industries hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Greer Industries is an employer string, not a verified corporate family and not a company PAC. 1 donor and 14 lines in 2008 matched that employer text. GREER, GREER INC, and other construction-materials spellings sit in other keys if filers typed them that way. This page is the stored string GREER INDUSTRIES.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open Greer Industries 2008 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2008 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the Greer Industries 2008 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $7,174,450, 14 contributions, 1 donors, and 38.5% of $18,659,050.

38.5% of the Greer Industries roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $18,659,050. The 2008 slice of $7,174,450 is about 38.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 61.5% ($11,484,600). Treating 2008 as the Greer Industries FEC story would ignore that remainder.

38.5% is a large share of the stored Greer Industries book. That concentration describes this extract’s cycle mix for the string GREER INDUSTRIES; it is not proof of a one-cycle political program and not a finding that later cycles are empty. Treat $18,659,050 as the denominator for the 38.5% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not payroll. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

A 38.5% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same Greer Industries hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open Greer Industries to drop the year filter. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

14 contributions from 1 donor

Dividing $7,174,450 by 14 contributions yields about $512,461 per itemized gift. Dividing by 1 donor yields about $7,174,450 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 14.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

1 unique donor is a small headcount. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count (14 lines) faster than the donor count. A one- or few-donor cell is still itemized individual contributions grouped by employer text — not a corporate contribution, not a PAC, and not a unique-employee census. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. The overlay for Greer Industries 2008 holds the rows.

14 is a receipt count, not a unique-person census beyond the 1 donor figure already in the packet. A person who gave twice is two lines inside the 14. Unitemized gifts never appear in $7,174,450.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Greer Industries 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 Greer Industries to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $7,174,450 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 14 contributions, the 1 unique donor, and the 38.5% share of $18,659,050.

2008 is a presidential federal cycle on FEC.gov. That calendar label does not explain $7,174,450. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix beyond the stored string GREER INDUSTRIES. Cite the two packet dollars — $7,174,450 for the 2008 slice and $18,659,050 for the Greer Industries book — and stop before assigning motive.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $7,174,450. 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 limestone or construction PAC and not a NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 1 donor, and 14 contributions. GREER, GREER INC, and other construction-materials spellings sit in other keys if filers typed them that way. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not read $7,174,450 as proof that Greer Industries “drove” the 2008 cycle or that 2008 “drove” the Greer Industries book. The join is two fields. If the live hubs disagree with $7,174,450 or 1 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Citing Greer Industries and 2008 together

Start with $7,174,450, then Greer Industries 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Greer Industries, 2008, $7,174,450, 14 contributions, 1 donor, 38.5% of $18,659,050, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string GREER INDUSTRIES.

The 38.5% share, the 1-donor count, and the $512,461 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 Greer Industries-listed donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $7,174,450 in itemized individual contributions for the Greer Industries grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 14 contributions and 1 donor. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $18,659,050 all-cycle figure.

What share of Greer Industries FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $18,659,050. The 2008 cell of $7,174,450 is about 38.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 61.5% ($11,484,600) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Greer Industries hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $7,174,450 the Greer Industries PAC total for 2008?

No. $7,174,450 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to GREER INDUSTRIES in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 14 contributions came from 1 donor.

Where is the overlay for the Greer Industries 2008 join?

Open Greer Industries 2008 for the cycle overlay, Greer Industries 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.