Jones Day and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Jones Day firm string × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Jones Day and 2008 — sum to $540,496. The cell holds 536 itemized contributions and 215 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Jones Day hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred fifteen unique donors and 536 lines in 2008 describe a large law-firm employer cell. Partners, associates, and household members who reuse the firm name can share the string. The Commission does not certify current partnership status. ATTORNEY as a title is a different grouping. JONES DAY LLP, JONES, DAY, REAVIS & POGUE, and ATTORNEY or LAWYER occupation strings are other keys if stored separately.

13.5% of the Jones Day roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,003,638 ($4.0 million). The 2008 slice of $540,496 is about 13.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 86.5%. Treating 2008 as the Jones Day FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,003,638 as the denominator for the 13.5% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $4,003,638.

536 contributions from 215 donors

Dividing $540,496 by 536 contributions yields about $1,008 per itemized gift. Dividing by 215 donors yields about $2,514 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.5. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

215 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 Jones Day 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

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

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $540,496 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 536 contributions, the 215 unique donors, and the 13.5% share of $4,003,638.

Law-firm text, not a legal-sector recode

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $540,496. 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 legal-services NAICS total and not the firm’s PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 215 donors, and 536 contributions. JONES DAY LLP, JONES, DAY, REAVIS & POGUE, and ATTORNEY or LAWYER occupation strings are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Jones Day and 2008 together

Start with $540,496, then Jones Day 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Jones Day, 2008, $540,496, 536 contributions, 215 donors, 13.5% of $4,003,638, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 13.5% share, the 215-donor count, and the $1,008 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 Jones Day donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $540,496 in itemized individual contributions for the Jones Day grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 536 contributions and 215 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,003,638 all-cycle figure.

What share of Jones Day FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,003,638. The 2008 cell of $540,496 is about 13.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 86.5% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Jones Day hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Jones Day’s PAC or an official account?

No. $540,496 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Jones Day. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a legal-services NAICS total and not the firm’s PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Jones Day 2008 join?

Open Jones Day 2008 for the cycle overlay, Jones Day 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.