2010 election cycle: Nurse occupation money

Why Nurse and 2010 share one page

LobbyVault keeps a Nurse occupation page and a 2010 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $616,555 from 572 contributions and 316 donors where occupation equals NURSE and cycle equals 2010. Against the occupation total of $15,033,909, that is 4.1%. Other cycles hold $14,417,354.

Do not treat 4.1% as Nurse workers’ share of all 2010 receipts. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation. Do not treat 316 as a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2010. The count is donor keys whose itemized receipts grouped to this string. The packet does not publish a party split or an employer split for this pair.

2010 is a midterm FEC cycle: a two-year window that does not include a presidential general election. That calendar tag dates the receipts. It does not explain $616,555. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle.

What $15,033,909 on the occupation hub includes

On the occupation side, Nurse indexes $15,033,909 of itemized individual receipts across harvested cycles. $616,555 is already inside that total; adding $616,555 to $15,033,909 would double-count the 2010 slice. Nurse occupation pages still mix 2010 with every other cycle.

NURSE on an FEC receipt is not a license check. Filers who typed RN or Nurse Practitioner sit in other occupation rows if those characters differ. Keep the exact string on the citation so Nurse is not merged with a sibling title. Registered Nurse, RN, and Nurse Practitioner are other keys. Use the occupation hub to see the title without a year filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Nurse in 2010.

Donor keys, lines, and means for Nurse

572 contributions totaling $616,555 is the operational definition of the 2010 side for this occupation. Repeat gifts from the same donor key raise the line count without raising 316. About 1.8 lines per donor is consistent with repeat itemization inside a two-year window, but it is not proof of a giving program.

Mean $1,078 per line and $1,951 per donor should never be quoted as a typical Nurse gift. Typical would need a median. This extract has none. 316 keys can hide a lopsided mix of large and small gifts — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

The 2010 cycle hub is not this cell

2010 is a midterm even-year FEC cycle. Inside it, Nurse shows 572 contributions totaling $616,555 from 316 donors. Occupation mean about $1,951 per donor uses only those facts. That ratio is not household income and not a unique-person average.

The 2010 election-cycle hub mixes Nurse with every other occupation string. This page does not. If a citation needs Nurse in 2010, use this tie. If a citation needs all of 2010 nationally, use the cycle hub. If a citation needs all of Nurse across years, use the occupation hub. Three different denominators.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $616,555 from 572 contributions and 316 donors is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or professional-bloc control. Correlation is not causation. Nurse × 2010 is a database join.

Researchers should keep NURSE as the stored occupation string and 2010 as the cycle tag. NURSE on an FEC receipt is not a license check. Filers who typed RN or Nurse Practitioner sit in other occupation rows if those characters differ. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by occupation and election cycle. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Coverage limits on the Nurse × 2010 cell

Coverage is itemized individual contributions with occupation NURSE and cycle 2010. $616,555, 572 lines, 316 keys. The occupation total $15,033,909 uses the same string without the year filter. Anything else a reader might want — party, committee, employer, city — is not in this packet.

2010 is a midterm window. That fact dates the money. It does not explain motives. See Nurse donations, the 2010 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties for adjacent tables. Source: FEC.gov.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Nurse, cycle 2010, $616,555 itemized, 572 contributions, 316 donors, 4.1% of $15,033,909. NURSE on an FEC receipt is not a license check. Filers who typed RN or Nurse Practitioner sit in other occupation rows if those characters differ. Registered Nurse, RN, and Nurse Practitioner stay on other occupation pages. The 2010 election cycle hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

What is the 2010 Nurse contribution total?

$616,555 from 572 itemized contributions and 316 donor keys whose occupation grouped to NURSE. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the occupation’s all-cycle total of $15,033,909. Mixing the two columns is incorrect. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Cycle 2010 is a midterm FEC window.

What share of Nurse occupation receipts is 2010?

4.1%. That is $616,555 divided by $15,033,909. The complement is $14,417,354 from other cycles under the same occupation string. The share is not a share of donors nationwide, votes, or federal awards. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Cycle 2010 is a midterm FEC window.

Does occupation NURSE mean the donors were licensed?

No. Occupation is a filer-entered field. FEC.gov does not verify licenses, degrees, or employment. NURSE on an FEC receipt is not a license check. Filers who typed RN or Nurse Practitioner sit in other occupation rows if those characters differ. 316 is a donor-key count, not a credential census. The dollars remain $616,555 on 572 lines.

Do these 2010 donations fund federal spending?

No. $616,555 is FEC itemized individual contributions tagged Nurse in 2010. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This join does not claim donations funded contracts or grants. Independent expenditures are also outside $616,555. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Cycle 2010 is a midterm FEC window.