Donors in Oklahoma City, OK to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE

The join, not the Oklahoma City, OK hub

FEC.gov itemized individual contributions are grouped by donor city and recipient committee. For OKLAHOMA CITY, OK × REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE, the published overlap is $413,097. Cycle splits, donor names, and receipt counts are absent from the packet. Do not invent a headcount from the dollar figure.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE is the stored name on C00003376. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them. Do not invent donor names. The committee title is a recipient label, not a roster of contributors in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma City’s join to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE (C00003376) is $413,097, 0.46% of $89,521,225. Midland’s page for the same ID is a different city string. Do not add the two cells.

All-committee dollars stored as OKLAHOMA CITY

The city book $89,521,225 is not a budget. It is a sum of Schedule A lines that stored this city string. PAC addresses, joint-fundraising addresses, and household streets that stored OKLAHOMA CITY follow the same rule.

Oklahoma City’s join to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE (C00003376) is $413,097, 0.46% of $89,521,225. Midland’s page for the same ID is a different city string. Do not add the two cells.

C00003376 compared with look-alike names

C00003376 is disclosed as REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $413,097 is itemized individual receipts storing city OKLAHOMA CITY and committee C00003376. Other cities giving to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Committee hubs roll up every city. This join does not. $413,097 is not the committee’s national total. Researchers who need the all-city figure must leave this URL for the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE hub.

Why 0.46% still leaves $89,108,128

0.46% of $89,521,225 is $413,097 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE (C00003376). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Oklahoma City, OK as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $89,521,225 city book went to other committees. Even when 0.46% is a visible slice, the slice is still only the C00003376 filter.

The leftover $89,108,128 under the OKLAHOMA CITY city string went to other committees. The Oklahoma City, OK hub holds that remainder. The REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE page holds receipts whose city field did not store OKLAHOMA CITY. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00003376; each join is its own filter.

Independent expenditures and other omitted files

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $413,097. Oklahoma state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $413,097 as proof that Oklahoma City, OK “funded” REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Oklahoma. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $413,097 to federal spending in Oklahoma.

Contribution lines can cluster in a few ZIPs or spread across many. This packet does not list those ZIPs or a donor headcount. Open the city hub and the committee hub rather than guessing a postal split from the city string alone. Oklahoma City’s join to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE (C00003376) is $413,097, 0.46% of $89,521,225. Midland’s page for the same ID is a different city string. Do not add the two cells.

Internal links that keep both nouns

Internal links go to Oklahoma City, OK, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE, Oklahoma campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $89,521,225 book and the committees that received the leftover $89,108,128. The committee page holds C00003376 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Oklahoma City, OK and REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE (C00003376). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $413,097 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot.

Cite $413,097, $89,521,225, 0.46%, leftover $89,108,128, and C00003376. Keep both sides named: OKLAHOMA CITY as filer-entered city, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE as recipient. Motive is outside the packet. Unitemized gifts never appear. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Questions

What did FEC.gov record from Oklahoma City, OK to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city OKLAHOMA CITY and recipient REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE (C00003376) total $413,097 in this extract. That is the join, not Oklahoma City, OK’s all-committee book of $89,521,225. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does LobbyVault recode OKLAHOMA CITY to a Census place?

No. OKLAHOMA CITY is the exact stored city string with state OK. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $413,097. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Oklahoma City, OK hub for the all-committee book of $89,521,225.

Is 0.46% of Oklahoma City, OK money going to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE?

$413,097 is 0.46% of the $89,521,225 Oklahoma City, OK city book. The leftover $89,108,128 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00003376. Do not upgrade 0.46% into a ranking of civic preference.

Is $413,097 independent expenditure spending by REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE - CONTRIBUTIONS (AKA REPUBLICAN NATIONAL FINANCE COMMITTEE?

No. The source note states these aggregates are not independent expenditures. $413,097 is itemized individual receipts storing city OKLAHOMA CITY and committee C00003376. IE files, if any, live elsewhere on FEC.gov.