Senator occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

SENATOR matched to FEC cycle 2008

Schedule A lines that stored occupation SENATOR and cycle 2008 aggregate to $124,719. Count of lines: 81. Count of donor keys: 62. Mean gift $1,540; mean per donor $2,012. Those four integers and two means are the quantitative core. SENATOR is a one-word occupation, not STATE SENATOR. $124,719 from 81 receipts and 62 donors is 1.8% of $7,082,198. This file does not name senators and does not recode the string into a chamber.

Self-reported officeholder word that does not name a chamber is the right description of the grouping. The FEC does not verify licenses. State senator, U.S. senator, senator/attorney, and former senator are not folded into $124,719. Unitemized gifts never enter the cell.

Where $6,957,479 still sits

Most of the Senator string is not this cycle: $6,957,479 of $7,082,198 sits outside 2008. Cite 1.8% only as this window’s slice of the occupation roll.

Other Senator cycle cells are separate harvests. Cite each cycle’s packet rather than averaging them. This packet’s cycle total is $124,719.

Means on $124,719: $1,540 and $2,012

Derived means travel with the counts: $1,540 per contribution, $2,012 per donor. Label them as arithmetic. They are not typical salaries and not a party split.

The 2008 cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell. This tie keeps Senator on so those other titles are not mixed into $124,719.

What this join refuses to claim

This join refuses donor names not in the packet, refuses a party split not in the packet, and refuses any claim that FEC itemized gifts fund USAspending awards. What it reports is $124,719 from 81 contributions and 62 donors for Senator in 2008.

If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live occupation and cycle hubs control. This prose is a packet snapshot of the two-dimension cell.

The denominator $7,082,198 is every cycle stored for SENATOR, not revenue and not assets. $124,719 over $7,082,198 is about 1.8%. The leftover $6,957,479 is other even-year windows on the Senator hub.

Means: $1,540 per itemized contribution, $2,012 per unique donor, 1.3 contributions per donor. Report them as arithmetic on $124,719, 81, and 62. They are not medians.

What to carry forward from this packet

Carry forward $124,719, 81, 62, 1.8%, $7,082,198, and the string SENATOR. Leave behind invented recipients, party shares, and contract dollars. The source note is FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle.

$1,540 per contribution and $2,012 per donor are derived means. Label them as such. Self-reported officeholder word that does not name a chamber remains the right description of the grouping.

2008 as a cycle tag includes the odd year paired with that even year. This packet does not split those years. $124,719 is the two-year cell.

PAC filings sit outside $124,719. So do independent expenditures and unitemized gifts. So do USAspending obligations. The page is self-reported officeholder word that does not name a chamber, not a Senate campaign committee, a Senate payroll file, or State Senator as a sibling.

Live tables versus this snapshot

This JSON is a packet snapshot. Amended filings move $124,719 and $7,082,198. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Senator donations and the live 2008 election cycle pages are the tables.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $124,719.

Citation order that preserves the join: dollars first ($124,719), then both keys (Senator, 2008), then volume (81 contributions, 62 donors), then source (FEC.gov).

The occupation string SENATOR is filer-entered. FEC.gov does not recode it into a license class or a NAICS code. Neighboring titles remain other occupation hubs.

Cycle 2008 is a two-year FEC tag. Itemized receipts from both years of that window sit in $124,719 if they carried this occupation string.

Unique donors in this packet number 62. This file does not publish names for those keys. Repeat gifts explain why contributions (81) exceed donor keys.

Unitemized gifts never enter $124,719. Independent expenditures, committee transfers, and USAspending awards are other tables and other datasets.

Cite both sides of the join whenever the dollars are quoted: occupation SENATOR and cycle 2008, then $124,719, source FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Senator-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $124,719 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Senator in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 81 contributions and 62 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $7,082,198, so 2008 is 1.8% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does 2008 dominate the Senator roll?

No. 1.8% of stored Senator dollars is tagged 2008 ($124,719 of $7,082,198). $6,957,479 remains on the occupation hub. That ratio uses packet facts only and is not a ranking of civic engagement. Source: FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts.

Does this count every senator who donated in 2008?

No. The 62 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to SENATOR in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $124,719 on 81 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate. State senator, U.S. senator, senator/attorney, and former senator are other keys if stored separately.

Where are the live Senator and 2008 tables?

Senator donations carries the $7,082,198 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Senator beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Senator × 2008 intersection only.