Minnesota campaign finance next to federal obligations

Minnesota’s join, with an unusual FEC third slice

The relationship is the same as every other tie on All FEC ties: MN on candidate receipts and MN on awards. Receipts: $57.9 million from 905 committees. Obligations: $618,825,177,976 from 462,800 awards. What differs is the FEC mix. Other and unaffiliated committees reported $19.8 million, compared with Democratic $11.9 million and Republican $26.3 million.

34.2% of receipts in the other bucket is a committee-label fact. It may include independent, third-party, or unlabeled filers as stored on the FEC candidate file. It is not a share of {dol(obl)}, and it is not a share of {awards:,} awards.

Read the Minnesota FEC book as three lines, not two

Republican committees lead the named major-party lines at $26.3 million (45.3%). Democratic committees reported $11.9 million (20.5%). Other filers reported $19.8 million (34.2%), which is larger than the Democratic line. Collapsing ‘other’ into a two-party story would hide $19.8 million of the $57.9 million total.

905 committees is the roster size, not a unique-candidate-person count if one person filed more than one committee. Minnesota campaign finance is the table to sort by receipts. This prose will not invent a front-runner.

Minnesota obligations remain an award extract

$618,825,177,976 and 462,800 awards come from USAspending.gov. Agriculture, health, defense, and other programs can appear in that extract without a corresponding FEC party code. Minnesota USAspending is the page that slices those awards. LobbyVault’s FEC table does not.

Do not export the ‘other’ share onto spending

A sloppy chart would paint 34.2% of $618,825,177,976 as ‘other-party federal spending.’ That chart would be false. This packet has no party dimension on obligations. The honest chart is two bars that do not share a unit: receipts versus obligations.

All FEC ties exists so Minnesota can be compared with states whose other-party slice is tiny, without turning any of those comparisons into a morality play.

Minnesota citation

FEC.gov: $57.9 million; 905 committees; Republican $26.3 million; Democratic $11.9 million; other $19.8 million. USAspending.gov: $618,825,177,976; 462,800 awards. State that other-party receipts are an FEC labeling fact only.

Minnesota’s other-party line is an FEC labeling task

Before anyone charts Minnesota, they should print three FEC lines: Republican $26.3 million, other $19.8 million, Democratic $11.9 million. Skipping the middle line hides 34.2% of $57.9 million. Independence, third-party, or unlabeled committees — however FEC stored them — live in that middle line. This page will not relabel them by guess.

None of those three lines is a slice of $618,825,177,976. 462,800 awards still have no party code here. A stacked bar that uses FEC colors on USAspending dollars is a fabricated graphic.

Minnesota state legislative and gubernatorial campaigns file with the Campaign Finance Board, not inside this FEC total. Tribal, county, and city awards may appear in the 462,800 USAspending rows when they are federal awards. Local revenue is still outside USAspending.

Minnesota campaign finance, Minnesota USAspending, and All FEC ties are the three hrefs. Compare Minnesota’s other-party $19.8 million with states whose other line is a rounding error — as an FEC labeling comparison, not as a spending comparison.

DFL versus Republican coverage in Minnesota news is not a third packet series. If a committee’s FEC party code is stored as other, it stays in $19.8 million even if headlines use a major-party noun. Relabeling 905 committees by news judgment would change $57.9 million’s split without a new FEC file. This page will not do that, and it will not paint $618,825,177,976 with those labels either.

Twin Cities versus Greater Minnesota is a reporting habit, not a field in this join. $57.9 million is statewide. $618,825,177,976 is statewide. 462,800 awards and 905 committees are statewide. A metro cut would be a different packet. All FEC ties does not hide one under Minnesota’s slug.

Questions

Why is Minnesota’s ‘other’ FEC share so large?

Other and unaffiliated candidate committees reported $19.8 million, or 34.2% of $57.9 million, across a 905-committee file. That is an FEC party-code roll-up. It is not a USAspending category and does not apply to {dol(obl)} in obligations. Cite three FEC lines, not two. Other-party receipts of $19.8 million are larger than Democratic receipts of $11.9 million in this extract.

Do Minnesota donations fund Minnesota federal awards?

No. $57.9 million is FEC candidate receipts. $618,825,177,976 is USAspending obligations across 462,800 awards. The join is the Minnesota state code. Contributions are not awards. The MN join remains geographic. $57.9 million in receipts does not fund $618,825,177,976 in obligations.

How much did Minnesota federal candidates report?

FEC aggregates show $57.9 million from 905 committees: Republican $26.3 million, Democratic $11.9 million, other $19.8 million. Use Minnesota campaign finance for the live table. Party lines still do not describe awards. 462,800 awards is not 462,800 Minnesota companies. Repeat actions add rows. Recipient detail is on Minnesota USAspending.

Where is Minnesota’s award detail?

Minnesota USAspending carries $618,825,177,976 in obligations and 462,800 awards from USAspending.gov. All FEC ties lists other state joins. Original award records remain on USAspending.gov. Live views: Minnesota campaign finance for FEC, Minnesota USAspending for awards, All FEC ties for other states. Sources are FEC.gov and USAspending.gov.