Smith Barney political money — 2008 cycle

Why Smith Barney and 2008 share one page

This page exists because two indexes meet. One index is the employer string Smith Barney. The other is the 2008 two-year FEC window. Only rows that carry both keys enter $607,382. The Smith Barney hub without a year filter is $5,882,332. The 2008 cycle hub without this employer filter is a different table and is not a denominator in this packet. Cite FEC.gov for the intersection.

Successor and parent spellings are other employer keys. The 2008 cell matches the stored string SMITH BARNEY only. 642 lines and 242 identities produced the cell. Repeat gifts explain why the line count can exceed the donor count. The overlay Smith Barney 2008 holds the itemized rows. This JSON file names the join; it is not a second filing system.

Do not restate the Smith Barney hub as if it were 2008-only, and do not restate the 2008 cycle hub as if it were Smith Barney-only. Two filters, one cell: $607,382 from FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

The Smith Barney string without the year filter

$5,882,332 is every cycle for the stored string SMITH BARNEY. Subtract $607,382 and $5,274,950 remains in other even-year windows (89.7%). That remainder is visible on the Smith Barney hub. It is not published as a cycle-by-cycle list in this packet, so other years are not quoted here as dollar amounts.

CITIGROUP SMITH BARNEY, SMITH BARNEY INC, MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY, and CITI are neighboring spellings. They are not aliases of SMITH BARNEY. Adding them would invent a sector total the packet does not contain. Smith Barney is employer string, not a brokerage PAC, a Citigroup roll-up, or a securities NAICS total.

Receipts, donors, and means inside 2008

642 contributions divided into $607,382 is about $946 per receipt. 242 donors divided into the same total is about $2,510 per identity. Lines per donor average about 2.7. Those quotients are packet arithmetic. They are not typical pay, not typical gift size in a legal sense, and not a party split.

A donor identity is a contributor record in the extract, not a named person on this page and not a headcount of everyone who worked under that label. Household members and retirees can reuse a workplace or title. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $607,382.

What the 2008 window contains

2008 is a presidential cycle tag on FEC.gov. Money dated in either year of that two-year window can sit in $607,382. The packet does not split odd-year versus even-year dollars and does not name committees. Open 2008 election cycle to drop the Smith Barney filter. Open Smith Barney to drop the year.

No cycle-wide total is in this packet, so Smith Barney is not ranked as a share of all 2008 giving. Ranking would require a denominator this file does not have. Keep both nouns — Smith Barney and 2008 — when quoting $607,382.

Limits of the join

Itemized individual contributions are the universe. PAC spending, independent expenditures, and state-office filings are outside $607,382. USAspending obligations are a different statute and a different form. Do not read $607,382 as federal awards tied to Smith Barney. The page is not a brokerage PAC, a Citigroup roll-up, or a securities NAICS total.

A text match is not motive. 242 donors and 642 contributions show volume in the extract, not that Smith Barney steered the 2008 cycle. If a later FEC extract revises $607,382, 642 receipts, or 242 donors, the newer extract controls.

How to quote Smith Barney × 2008

Citation template: employer/industry grouping SMITH BARNEY, election cycle 2008, $607,382 on 642 itemized individual contributions from 242 donors, 10.3% of the all-cycle $5,882,332. Source: FEC.gov. Then point to Smith Barney 2008, Smith Barney, 2008 election cycle, and All FEC ties.

Do not add $607,382 to $5,882,332; the cycle cell is already inside the lifetime bucket. Do not fold CITIGROUP SMITH BARNEY, SMITH BARNEY INC, MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY, and CITI into either figure. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Smith Barney in 2008?

This extract records $607,382 on 642 itemized individual receipts from 242 donors where the stored grouping is SMITH BARNEY and the cycle is 2008. That is not the $5,882,332 all-cycle book and not a PAC total. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Smith Barney the same as CITIGROUP SMITH BARNEY?

No. Only the exact stored string SMITH BARNEY is inside $607,382. CITIGROUP SMITH BARNEY, SMITH BARNEY INC, MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY, and CITI are other keys on this site. 242 donors and 642 receipts follow that exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not recode the employer field into a sector total.

What share of Smith Barney dollars landed in 2008?

$607,382 is about 10.3% of the all-cycle grouping $5,882,332. Other even-year windows hold $5,274,950 (89.7%) on the Smith Barney hub. Quote both totals together. Do not recast 10.3% as a ranking of employers in 2008.

Does Smith Barney giving in 2008 pay for USAspending awards?

No. FEC Schedule A individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets under different statutes. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Sharing a workplace string and a calendar year does not convert $607,382 into a federal contract or grant. Cite FEC.gov. SMITH BARNEY in 2008 is $607,382 on 642 itemized receipts from 242 donors; the all-cycle grouping is $5,882,332.