Tulsa, OK political money — 2014 cycle

Tulsa, OK and the 2014 cycle as a join

LobbyVault keeps a Tulsa, OK city page and a 2014 election-cycle page. Neither page is this join. The join is $184,183 from 229 itemized individual contributions where city equals TULSA and cycle equals 2014. Against the all-cycle city total of $128,640,043, that is 0.14%. Other cycles under the same city label hold $128,455,860.

Do not treat 0.14% as Tulsa's share of the national 2014 cycle. The national cycle total is not in these facts. Do not treat 229 rows as unique residents of Tulsa. Repeat gifts, multiple committees, and spelling variants can add rows. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for this city-cycle pair.

City labels are filer-entered. Tulsa is stored as TULSA in Oklahoma; Oklahoma City is a different city key. 2014 is a midterm two-year FEC window. That does not assign motive. Dollar figures are itemized individual contribution aggregates from FEC.gov, not federal awards and not state-office filings.

Tulsa, OK without a year filter

On the city side, Tulsa, OK indexes $128,640,043 of itemized individual dollars across cycles. 229 is a 2014-only row count; this packet does not publish a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Dollar share is available: 0.14% of $128,640,043 is the 2014 slice ($184,183), and 99.9% is not.

Tulsa is stored as TULSA in Oklahoma; Oklahoma City is a different city key. Keep state OK on the name. Tulsa strings exist in more than one state in FEC files. $128,640,043 is not a Oklahoma total. Open the Oklahoma campaign-finance hub for the state mix; open this page for Tulsa in 2014 only.

2014 as a midterm FEC window

On the cycle side, 229 receipts produced $184,183. Repeat gifts add receipts. The packet does not say how many unique people those 229 lines represent. About $804 per line is a trivial division, not a finding about wealth in Tulsa. Midterm versus the other even-year type is a schedule fact for 2014, not an explanation of the dollars.

Unitemized small gifts never enter $184,183. Independent expenditures never enter $184,183. Committee operating expenditures never enter $184,183. This is an individual Schedule A city×cycle aggregate from FEC.gov. Oklahoma state-office filings are a different statute.

This URL (/ties/ok-tulsa-2014-donations/) is only the Tulsa × 2014 intersection. The city hub still mixes every cycle into $128,640,043. The 2014 hub still mixes every donor city. Do not treat either hub as $184,183.

0.14% of Tulsa, OK itemized dollars

Compared with the rest of Tulsa, 2014 is 0.14% of itemized individual dollars ($184,183 of $128,640,043). The rest is $128,455,860. 229 is the 2014 row count only. Quote dollars and rows as different columns. Mixing them produces a fake density statistic this packet does not support.

Do not rank Tulsa as a winner or loser in 2014. This join has one city and one cycle. Neighboring city-cycle pages are other keys. Oklahoma campaign finance still mixes geographies.

Recompute the share from the raw integers: 184,183 divided by 128,640,043 is 0.14%. The complement 128,455,860 is $128,455,860, which is 99.9% of the TULSA city book. Those identities do not use the row count 229.

What 229 itemized contributions are not

Itemized federal individual contributions are the only money on this page. 229 lines sum to $184,183 for Tulsa, OK in 2014. If a researcher needs occupation cuts, those are other LobbyVault joins. If a researcher needs committee names, those are not in this packet. Do not invent donor names.

City TULSA is filer-entered. Cycle 2014 is an FEC tag. Together they are a join, not a story about why 229 gifts were made. Correlation is not causation. An address in Tulsa does not locate the campaign that received the check.

Using Tulsa and 2014 links without mixing statutes

Public records, not accusations: $184,183 from 229 itemized lines is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or local control. Correlation is not causation. Tulsa × 2014 is a database join.

Researchers should keep TULSA as the stored city string and 2014 as the cycle tag. Tulsa is stored as TULSA in Oklahoma; Oklahoma City is a different city key. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Questions

How much did Tulsa, OK donors give in the 2014 election cycle?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Tulsa, OK total $184,183 in the 2014 cycle, across 229 contribution records. The same city label totals $128,640,043 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.14% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates of itemized individual gifts only.

Is the Tulsa, OK city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $128,640,043 covers every cycle in the table for TULSA. The 2014 filter is $184,183 from 229 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $128,455,860. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice only. Unitemized gifts are omitted from both totals.

Did Tulsa, OK 2014 donations stay in Oklahoma?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Tulsa, OK; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $184,183 by office, state of the committee, or party. An OK city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Oklahoma races or of where the money was spent.

How many Tulsa, OK contributions were itemized in 2014?

229 itemized contribution records sum to $184,183. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $804 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts and are not invented here.