Kansas City, MO political money — 2008 cycle

Two dimensions: Kansas City, MO and 2008

Two dimensions define this URL: donor city Kansas City, MO and election cycle 2008. Where both are true, FEC itemized individual receipts add to $235,195 across 206 lines. The city dimension alone is $84.5 million. The cycle dimension alone is a national file that is not in these facts. Only the overlap is cited here.

Share of the city book: 0.3% ($235,195 ÷ $84,544,122). Remainder in other cycles: $84,308,927 (99.7%). Those percentages use the city total as denominator. They are not Kansas City, MO's share of Missouri, not Kansas City, MO's share of the national 2008 cycle, and not a turnout rate.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Treat 206 as rows. Treat $235,195 as itemized dollars with this city string and this cycle tag. Do not invent a unique-donor headcount. Do not invent recipient names.

$84,544,122 is the city book, not the cycle slice

City total $84,544,122 is every cycle under KANSAS CITY in MO. Cycle total $235,195 is 2008 only. Contribution count 206 is 2008 only. Missing from the packet: all-cycle row count, unique donors, party, office, and committee identifiers. Those omissions are why this prose does not rank neighborhoods or name recipients.

Jackson County, Missouri is geographic color, not an extra FEC field. The Commission stores the city string the committee keyed. If a filer used a suburb name among Independence, MO and Kansas City, KS, that money is on another city page. Kansas City, KS is a different state code and a different FEC key; Independence is not rolled into KANSAS CITY.

206 receipts in a presidential window

Cycle coding is mechanical. The Commission tags itemized receipts with a two-year even year. 206 KANSAS CITY lines received the 2008 tag in this aggregate and summed to $235,195. National volume for that tag is a different page.

Presidential cycles (2008, 2012) and midterm cycles (2010, 2014) are calendar types, not size ranks. This packet has one cycle: 2008, which is presidential. Adjacent Kansas City, MO joins for other years are other URLs.

Donor city is an address field

No donor names are listed because the packet has none. Inventing names would be a fabrication. The 206 lines remain anonymous in this overlay. Committee names are likewise absent from the facts and absent from this prose.

$235,195 does not measure public opinion in Jackson County, Missouri. Itemized filers are a disclosure set, not a sample of residents. Mean $1,142 is a row average, not a resident average.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city KANSAS CITY, state MO, election cycle 2008, itemized dollars $235,195, itemized rows 206, all-cycle city dollars $84,544,122. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2008 is a presidential election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Jackson County, Missouri against other places.

Share math uses only these two dollars

Amended FEC reports can revise itemized totals. This JSON is a snapshot of one extract. Prefer live hub numbers when they differ. The relationship remains the same: city KANSAS CITY × cycle 2008.

Do not convert $235,195 into “support for Missouri candidates.” Recipient geography is not in the facts. Do not convert 206 into “households.” Rows are receipts.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Kansas City, MO, filers also use labels such as Independence, MO and Kansas City, KS; Kansas City, KS is a different state code and a different FEC key; Independence is not rolled into KANSAS CITY. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Missouri state-office filings sit outside $235,195 and outside $84,544,122. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

Amended reports and extract vintage

Treat 0.3% as a filing-tag share inside one city key. Treat presidential as a calendar type. Treat Jackson County, Missouri as map color. None of those treatments adds a number that is missing from the packet.

The overlay is complete when a reader can say: Kansas City, MO, 2008, $235,195 itemized, 206 lines, city book $84,544,122, source FEC.gov, not USAspending.

Arithmetic that stays inside the packet: $235,195 is 0.3% of $84,544,122; $84,308,927 is the other 99.7%; mean itemized line is about $1,142 ($235,195 ÷ 206). No unique-donor count, median, party split, or committee list is available here. Donor city is not recipient city. If the live Kansas City, MO hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this snapshot, the newer FEC extract controls.

Questions

How much did Kansas City, MO donors give in 2008?

Itemized FEC individual contributions listing contributor city KANSAS CITY and cycle 2008 total $235,195 across 206 receipts in this LobbyVault extract. That is the city-cycle join, not the all-cycle Kansas City, MO book of $84.5 million. Unitemized gifts and Missouri state-office filings sit outside both figures.

Is $235,195 all of Kansas City's federal political money?

No. $84.5 million ($84,544,122) is the all-cycle itemized book for contributor city KANSAS CITY in MO. The 2008 slice is $235,195, 0.3% of that book. Other cycles hold $84,308,927. 206 is a 2008 receipt count, not a unique-donor count. The city hub holds the stack; this page holds the year.

Did Kansas City, MO 2008 donations stay in Missouri?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Kansas City, MO; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $235,195 by office, state of the committee, or party. A MO city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Missouri races.

How many Kansas City, MO contributions were itemized in 2008?

206 itemized contribution records sum to $235,195. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $1,142 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.