OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY — 2012 cycle receipts

OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY locked to 2012

LobbyVault stores C00016899 as a committee and 2012 as a cycle. The overlap is this slug. Drop the committee and the remaining object is the 2012 hub. Drop the cycle and the remaining object is the committee hub across years.

Inside the overlap, receipts are $37,115,743.41 and disbursements are $37,082,654.36. FEC spelling is the disambiguator: OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY versus OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY - FEDERAL. Receipts and disbursements match. Source is cycle-details topCommittees.

What type Y means for Ohio Democratic Party

OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY is a qualified party committee (FEC type Y). That is the meaning of type Y in this packet. It is not a recode from the nickname and not a guess from the dollar size.

This packet publishes receipts and disbursements only; it does not include cash-on-hand or an individual-contribution subtotal. Do not invent those missing lines from another slug. Use this URL when citing the shorter stored name. Use the FEDERAL slug when citing the hyphenated name. Do not add the two receipt columns together.

Election cycle 2012 next to Ohio Democratic Party

FEC cycles are two-year federal election windows labeled by the even year. This cell uses 2012. 2012 is drawn from cycle-details topCommittees on this join.

Receipts $37,115,743.41 and disbursements $37,082,654.36 sit within about one percent of each other. A cycle label does not convert receipts into federal awards. Keep 2012 in the same sentence as Ohio Democratic Party and $37,115,743.41.

The two dollar columns for Ohio Democratic Party in 2012

Write $37,115,743.41 as receipts. Write $37,082,654.36 as disbursements. Do not write that Ohio Democratic Party “spent $37,115,743.41” unless you are looking at the disbursement column, which is $37,082,654.36. Labels travel with the figures.

Ohio Democratic Party is the cycle-details spelling of C00016899 without the FEDERAL suffix. Cash-on-hand and individual contributions are unpublished on this thinner packet. Do not copy them from the FEDERAL sibling. Live overlays win if they refresh.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $37,115,743.41 in receipts and $37,082,654.36 in disbursements is a disclosure aggregate for OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY in 2012. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or control of an election.

Researchers should keep C00016899 as the committee key and 2012 as the cycle key. The packet Super PAC flag is 0; do not relabel OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY in 2012 as a Super PAC page. FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle from cycle-details topCommittees. Committee pages, not donor pages. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

How to read Ohio Democratic Party money in 2012

Read $37,115,743.41 as Ohio Democratic Party receipts in 2012. Read $37,082,654.36 as Ohio Democratic Party disbursements in 2012. Read type Y as a qualified party committee (FEC type Y). The packet Super PAC flag is 0; do not relabel OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY in 2012 as a Super PAC page. Cash-on-hand and individual contributions are unpublished on this thinner packet. Do not copy them from the FEDERAL sibling.

Receipts $37,115,743.41 and disbursements $37,082,654.36 sit within about one percent of each other. Do not recode this join into the cycleHistory FEDERAL sibling restated as a second dollar pair, the DNC, or a donor page. Correlation is not causation.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: committee OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY (C00016899), election cycle 2012, receipts $37,115,743.41, disbursements $37,082,654.36, FEC type Y, Super PAC flag 0. The FEDERAL 2012 Ohio Democratic join and other 2012 type Y committees stay on other pages. The 2012 election-cycle hub still mixes every other committee. All committees and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

What a reader may not do with $37,115,743.41: treat it as a donor roster, treat it as a 2012 grand total for every committee, or treat it as money that funded USAspending awards. What a reader may do: quote the pair, quote disbursements $37,082,654.36 with its own label, quote the source FEC.gov, and follow the four internal links. This packet publishes receipts and disbursements only; it does not include cash-on-hand or an individual-contribution subtotal.

No occupation split, no state split, and no named-donor list appears here. If a later extract revises $37,115,743.41 or $37,082,654.36, the live Ohio Democratic Party overlay and the live 2012 page control. This JSON file is a snapshot of packet facts, not a third disclosure system. Cash-on-hand and individual contributions are unpublished on this thinner packet. Do not copy them from the FEDERAL sibling.

Questions

What did OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY report to the FEC in 2012?

Receipts of $37,115,743.41 and disbursements of $37,082,654.36 for committee C00016899 in election cycle 2012. Type code Y. Super PAC flag 0. Those are the packet facts. The 2012 cycle hub still includes other committees; this page isolates Ohio Democratic Party. Source: FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle.

Is this the Ohio Democratic Party committee page or a 2012 page?

Neither hub restated. It is the join: OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY and election cycle 2012. Receipts $37,115,743.41. Disbursements $37,082,654.36. Open the committee link for C00016899 across years. Open the 2012 election-cycle link for every committee in that year. All committees and All FEC ties list sibling pages. Source: FEC.gov.

Why do receipts and disbursements differ for Ohio Democratic Party?

Receipts $37,115,743.41 and disbursements $37,082,654.36 sit within about one percent of each other. Quote receipts $37,115,743.41 and disbursements $37,082,654.36 as separate columns for committee C00016899 in 2012. Type Y does not change the arithmetic. Named donors are not in this packet and are not invented. Extra packet fields, if present, stay labeled as stored.

Did Ohio Democratic Party receipts pay for federal awards in 2012?

No. $37,115,743.41 is an FEC committee receipt total for OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY in 2012. USAspending awards are a different dataset and a different statute. This join does not treat campaign receipts as contract or grant funding. Disbursements of $37,082,654.36 are also campaign-finance figures, not federal obligations. Source: FEC.gov.