Independent Oil Operator political contributions from Midland, TX

The Midland × Independent Oil Operator relationship

Two dimensions meet here: contributor city Midland, TX and occupation/employer grouping Independent Oil Operator. The published intersection is $16,500 from 6 itemized FEC individual contributions and 3 donors. Midland's all-industry book is $82,334,215 from 108,952 contributions. Under 0.1% of city dollars used this exact employer string.

FEC.gov Schedule A aggregates are the source. LobbyVault does not recode MIDLAND or INDEPENDENT OIL OPERATOR. The join is not a restatement of the city hub and not a restatement of the industry hub. Quote both sides.

Division checks: $16,500 / 6 is about $2,750 per receipt; $16,500 / 3 is about $5,500 per donor. Use those as arithmetic, not as typical gifts. Repeat filings explain why receipts can exceed donors.

Unpacking Midland, TX

MIDLAND is the stored city field. Display copy uses Midland. State is TX (Texas). 108,952 lines built $82,334,215 ($82.3 million in headline form). That integer includes every industry string filed with this city, so $16,500 is a subset, not an add-on.

Adjacent municipalities that typed another city are absent from $82,334,215. Committee street addresses that typed Midland may be present. The packet does not split residents from non-residents. Do not invent that split. Texas campaign-finance pages remain the state view.

Unpacking Independent Oil Operator

INDEPENDENT OIL OPERATOR is the stored industry/employer grouping. $16,500 is this packet's published total for that grouping under the Midland filter, with 6 contributions and 3 donors. Related job titles that used different strings are other keys.

The industry hub lists the same string in other cities. Those other cities are not added into $16,500 on this page. All FEC ties points to other city-industry pairs so readers do not treat this overlap as the only Independent Oil Operator activity.

A second pass on the same integers: $16,500 is the overlap, 6 is the line count, 3 is the donor count, $82,334,215 is the Midland book, and 108,952 is the city line count. None of those five figures is a committee total. None is an independent-expenditure total. None is a Texas state-office total. Quote them with the nouns Independent Oil Operator and Midland, TX still attached.

What the join does not prove

It does not prove that donations fund federal awards in Midland. FEC and USAspending are different datasets. This packet has no award counts. It does not rank Midland against other cities as more political or less. Police-report comparisons are not in this extract either.

It does not identify donor names. 3 is a count, not a roster. It does not assign party. Independent expenditures and unitemized gifts sit outside $16,500. Correlation is not causation.

Filer-entered employer text can abbreviate, invert word order, or drop punctuation. This extract kept INDEPENDENT OIL OPERATOR as its own key. A researcher who wants a family of similar names must open those other keys separately and must not fold them into $16,500 by hand. The same rule applies to city spellings of MIDLAND. LobbyVault does not silently merge them on this page.

Where to click from Independent Oil Operator in Midland

City hub: Midland, TX. Industry hub: Independent Oil Operator. State hub: Texas campaign finance. Inventory: All FEC ties. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this packet authorizes. Do not invent additional URLs.

Keep $16,500 attached to Independent Oil Operator and Midland, TX in the same sentence. Dropping a side misstates the join. If the live extract moves, FEC.gov controls.

How to quote the packet

Write: filers storing INDEPENDENT OIL OPERATOR and MIDLAND, TX reported $16,500 on 6 itemized individual contributions from 3 donors, versus a Midland city book of $82,334,215 on 108,952 contributions (under 0.1%). Source: FEC.gov. City labels are filer-entered.

City-cycle and industry-cycle pages answer even-year windows. This file does not. Do not add $16,500 to $82,334,215.

Schedule A itemizations that met both filters are the only rows in $16,500. If a receipt stored INDEPENDENT OIL OPERATOR and a different city, it is out. If it stored MIDLAND and a different employer, it is out. If it stored neither, it is out. That three-way exclusion is why under 0.1% of the Midland book can look small while the city itself still has a large $82,334,215 total.

Questions

Independent Oil Operator in Midland: what dollars are published?

$16,500 from 6 receipts and 3 donors on FEC.gov itemized individual contributions storing INDEPENDENT OIL OPERATOR and MIDLAND, TX. Midland's unfiltered total is $82,334,215 on 108,952 lines. Share: under 0.1%. Labels are filer-entered.

Why is the Independent Oil Operator share of Midland only under 0.1%?

The industry key is an exact string, not a sector roll-up. Most of the $82,334,215 city book used other employer labels. Under 0.1% does not mean the trade is absent from Midland; it means other strings dominate the tape. Quote $16,500 and $82,334,215 together.

Is MIDLAND geocoded to a Census place?

No. City labels are filer-entered. Midland, TX is the display form of stored MIDLAND plus state TX. Adjacent spellings are other keys. 108,952 city lines follow that exact city field. LobbyVault does not recode the place.

Are independent expenditures inside $16,500?

No. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file. $16,500 is itemized individual contributions only. Unitemized gifts and Texas state-office filings are also outside the join. 6 receipts are Schedule A-style itemizations in this aggregate.