Metairie, LA political money — 2008 cycle

How Metairie, LA meets the 2008 election cycle

$132,035 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city METAIRIE with state LA, and election cycle 2008. The match is $132,035 across 68 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $32,905,168. 2008 therefore accounts for 0.40% of Metairie, LA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $32,773,133 (99.6%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Metairie, LA. That hub mixes 2008 with every other even-year window filed under METAIRIE. It is also not a restatement of the 2008 election cycle hub, which mixes Metairie, LA with every other donor city. The 68 rows and $132,035 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

The Metairie, LA side of the join

The city aggregate for Metairie, LA is $32,905,168 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $132,035 from 2008 and the $32,773,133 from every other cycle in the same city file. Louisiana campaign-finance pages still mix Metairie with every other city in LA.

The stored city is Metairie in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. New Orleans is a different city string; METAIRIE is not recoded into Orleans Parish. Kenner and Gretna are other Louisiana keys when filers typed those names. $32,905,168 is the LA key only. A large city total does not mean 2008 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2008 was small. For Metairie, LA, the city stack is $32,905,168 while this cycle is $132,035 (0.40%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2008 cycle side for Louisiana filers in Metairie

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2008 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2008 is a presidential election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $132,035. Inside that window, Metairie, LA donors itemized $132,035 on 68 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $1,942 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

Sixty-eight receipts totaling $132,035 is a compact 2008 presidential-year file against a $32,905,168 Metairie book. About 0.40% of that book sits in 2008. Sixty-eight lines is not sixty-eight unique residents; repeats and household pairs add rows. The national 2008 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Louisiana still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Metairie × 2008. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2008 dollars against Metairie’s city aggregate

0.40% of $32,905,168 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $32,773,133. Put another way, about 0.40% of Metairie, LA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2008, and about 99.6% were not. Those percentages are $132,035 divided by $32,905,168 and $32,773,133 divided by $32,905,168. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.40%) and row volume (68 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.40% as Metairie’s share of the 2008 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $132,035 does not measure

68 itemized contributions totaling $132,035 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of METAIRIE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Metairie versus other Louisiana cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $1,942 uses only $132,035 and 68 rows.

$132,035 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city METAIRIE. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Louisiana file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Metairie can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Metairie and 2008 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Metairie against other cities, does not call 2008 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Louisiana. Two columns matched. A LA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Louisiana candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Metairie, LA hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Metairie, LA, the 2008 election cycle, Louisiana campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov. Canonical path is /ties/la-metairie-2008-donations/.

Questions

What did Metairie, LA itemize in the 2008 FEC cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Metairie, LA total $132,035 in the 2008 cycle, across 68 contribution records. The same city label totals $32,905,168 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2008 is 0.40% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Metairie, LA city total only for 2008?

No. The city aggregate of $32,905,168 covers every cycle in the table for METAIRIE. The 2008 filter is $132,035 from 68 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $32,773,133. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2008 slice.

Did Metairie, LA 2008 donations stay in Louisiana?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Metairie, LA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $132,035 by office, state of the committee, or party. A LA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Louisiana races.

How many Metairie, LA contributions were itemized in 2008?

68 itemized contribution records sum to $132,035. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,942 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.