Restaurant Owner political money — 2008 cycle

The occupation-and-cycle join for Restaurant Owner

Headline number: $613,771. Contribution count: 569. Donor keys: 344. Occupation total: $5,509,629. Remainder outside 2008: $4,895,858. Share of the occupation roll: 11.1%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Restaurant Owner in 2008 is not Restaurant Owner in every year and is not 2008 for every occupation. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. 344 donor keys and $613,771 exist only at the intersection. An occupation string does not mean the money funded federal contracts, and it does not mean the title caused the gifts.

RESTAURANT OWNER is the typed title. Owner, Restaurateur, and Restaurant Manager are other keys when those are the words on the form. FEC.gov stores cycle 2008 as a presidential even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Restaurant Owner against other titles. Independent expenditures are omitted. USAspending awards are a different statute.

Reading the Restaurant Owner occupation denominator

$5,509,629 is the Restaurant Owner occupation book in this extract — every cycle harvested for this string. 2008 contributes $613,771 (11.1%). The packet does not split the occupation total by party, and this page does not invent that split.

Restaurant Owner pages still include other years. The 2008 hub still includes other occupations. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Restaurant Owner and 2008. Occupation is the string on the receipt, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics code and not a license class.

What 344 Restaurant Owner donors represent

344 is a donor-record count. $613,771 is a dollar sum. $1,784 is their ratio. None of those is a unique-person census of the occupation. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $613,771: independent expenditures, non-individual PAC spending as a separate total, unitemized tables below the itemization threshold, and USAspending obligations. Omitted from the occupation comparison: any occupation other than RESTAURANT OWNER, except as context that sibling strings exist.

Restaurant Owner’s share of its own occupation roll

11.1% of $5,509,629 is a defined slice. Other cycles hold $4,895,858. Put another way, about 11.1% of Restaurant Owner-coded itemized dollars in this aggregate were tagged cycle 2008, and the rest were not. Those percentages are $613,771 divided by $5,509,629 and $4,895,858 divided by $5,509,629. They are not shares of licensed workers, eligible voters, or USAspending.

Dollar share (11.1%) and donor volume (344 keys) are separate facts. This page does not publish a donor-count percentage as a substitute for the dollar share. Do not treat 11.1% as Restaurant Owner donors’ share of national itemized giving. Cycle-wide occupation mixes live on the cycle hub.

Using Restaurant Owner and 2008 links without mixing statutes

Citation template: occupation Restaurant Owner (RESTAURANT OWNER), election cycle 2008 (presidential), $613,771 in itemized individual contributions from 569 receipts and 344 donors, occupation total $5,509,629, share 11.1%, remainder $4,895,858, mean about $1,079 per gift and $1,784 per donor. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault occupation-cycle aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2008 election cycle page, the Restaurant Owner donations hub, all occupations, and all FEC ties. If you need named donors, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays aggregated. No donor names are supplied, and none are added.

Restaurant Owner next to other 2008 occupation strings

Other occupation strings in 2008 live on other tie pages. This file does not add their dollars to $613,771. Restaurateur, Owner, and Business Owner are the usual nearby labels. Opening All occupations is the way to find them. Opening All FEC ties is the way to find other occupation-year cells.

Do not invent donor names to illustrate 344 keys. The aggregate is the published object. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Restaurant Owner, cycle 2008, $613,771 itemized, 569 contributions, 344 donors, 11.1% of $5,509,629. RESTAURANT OWNER is the typed title. Owner, Restaurateur, and Restaurant Manager are other keys when those are the words on the form. Restaurateur, Owner, and Business Owner stay on other occupation pages. The 2008 election cycle hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

How many Restaurant Owner donors are in the 2008 cell?

344 donor keys sum to $613,771 on 569 contributions. That count is donor keys, not unique licensed workers. The arithmetic mean is about $1,784 per donor and $1,079 per contribution. Independent expenditures are not included. Named donors are not in these facts and are not invented here.

Is $5,509,629 the amount Restaurant Owner filers gave in 2008?

No. $5,509,629 is the occupation total across harvested cycles. Restaurant Owner’s 2008 cell is $613,771. Other cycles hold $4,895,858. Use the occupation hub for the all-cycle figure and this tie page for the 2008 slice only.

Why does this page exist if occupation and cycle hubs already exist?

Because two tables meet. The occupation hub answers Restaurant Owner across years ($5,509,629). The cycle hub answers 2008 across occupations. This tie answers only Restaurant Owner inside 2008: $613,771, 569 gifts, 344 donors. All FEC ties lists other such pairs.

What is omitted from $613,771?

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers as a separate table, USAspending awards, and receipts whose occupation string was not RESTAURANT OWNER. Sibling titles such as Restaurateur, Owner, and Business Owner are other rows. Source: FEC.gov occupation-cycle aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Cycle 2008 is a presidential FEC window.