Self Employed Attorney and the 2008 FEC election cycle

A three-word occupation meeting a two-year cycle

LobbyVault stores employer and occupation groupings on one axis and election cycles on the other. Rows that match both keys — Self Employed Attorney and 2008 — sum to $154,643. One hundred forty-five itemized contributions and 27 unique donors produced that cell. The figure is not an official organization disbursement, does not name recipient committees, and is not an independent-expenditure total. Committee transfers live in other FEC tables. The join exists because two public dimensions overlapped on a stored string and an even-year tag.

Neither the Self Employed Attorney hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Exact Self, used alone, is a placeholder this extract does not treat as a profession. Self Employed Attorney is longer form text that names a legal practice status. ATTORNEY, LAWYER, ESQUIRE, LAW FIRM, and named firm keys remain other buckets if filers typed those strings instead. This page is the three-word grouping only. The FEC does not verify bar admission, current solo status, or a client roster from the occupation field.

5.0% of the Self Employed Attorney roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $3,068,440. The 2008 slice of $154,643 is about 5.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.0%, or $2,913,797. Treating 2008 as the Self Employed Attorney FEC story would ignore that remainder. A presidential cycle cell this small relative to the parent is still a six-figure join, and it is still a slice.

Treat $3,068,440 as the denominator for the 5.0% share. It is not law-firm revenue, not a count of practicing attorneys, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $3,068,440 and keeps the cycle hub from being mistaken for a single occupation’s book.

145 contributions from 27 donors

Dividing $154,643 by 145 contributions yields about $1,067 per itemized gift. Dividing by 27 donors yields about $5,728 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 5.4. Those means describe arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a typical household check, and not a party split. A 5.4-line average says repeat itemized activity among a modest roster, not a bar-wide giving program.

Twenty-seven unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of licensees, partners, or employees. Household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Self Employed Attorney 2008 holds the disclosed rows. Opening only this tie would understate receipts that sit under ATTORNEY or a firm legal name in the same window.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Self Employed Attorney is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the occupation filter and Self Employed Attorney to drop the year. All FEC ties lists neighboring two-dimension pages.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $154,643 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. A 2007 receipt and a November 2008 receipt can share the same join. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 145 contributions, the 27 unique donors, and the 5.0% share of $3,068,440.

A practice title is not a federal-award ledger

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $154,643. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into legal-services contracts, legal-aid grants, or USAspending obligations. Campaign contributions are not federal awards. The page is not a legal-services NAICS total and not a bar PAC.

Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 27 donors, and 145 contributions. SELF EMPLOYED without Attorney, ATTORNEY without Self Employed, LAWYER, and named firm keys are siblings, not subsets, unless a receipt grouped here. This extract does not recode those strings into the three-word cell.

Citing Self Employed Attorney and 2008 together

Start with $154,643, then Self Employed Attorney 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Self Employed Attorney, 2008, $154,643, 145 contributions, 27 donors, 5.0% of $3,068,440, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 5.0% share, the 27-donor count, and the $1,067 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a shorter Self key, a one-word Attorney key, or a firm legal name and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Self Employed Attorney donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $154,643 in itemized individual contributions for the Self Employed Attorney grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 145 contributions and 27 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $3,068,440 all-cycle figure.

What share of Self Employed Attorney FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,068,440. The 2008 cell of $154,643 is about 5.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.0%, or $2,913,797, on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is Self Employed Attorney the same as the FEC placeholder Self?

No. Exact Self is a junk employer placeholder this extract does not treat as a profession. Self Employed Attorney is a three-word occupation string naming independent legal practice. ATTORNEY, LAWYER, and named firm keys remain other buckets. This join reports the 2008 string match only, totaling $154,643 from 27 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Self Employed Attorney 2008 join?

Open Self Employed Attorney 2008 for the cycle overlay, Self Employed Attorney for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.