State of Michigan and the 2014 FEC election cycle

State of Michigan is one axis; 2014 is the other

An industry-cycle page is not a restatement of State of Michigan and not a restatement of 2014. It is the cell where they meet: $262,017, 273 contributions, 72 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle are the source note.

On the employer side, State of Michigan is state-government employer text. On the cycle side, 2014 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $262,017.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $3,910,959 is the lifetime State of Michigan bucket. The 2014 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $262,017.

2014 is not the whole State of Michigan story

State of Michigan across all cycles is $3,910,959. State of Michigan in 2014 is $262,017 — about 6.7%. The gap is $3,648,942. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2014 overlay still sees $262,017 for this string, not $3,910,959. A reader who only opens the industry hub still needs the year filter to recover $262,017. 2014 holds $262,017 of $3,910,959 for this string — about 6.7%. Other cycles hold $3,648,942 (93.3%). Folding those other cycles into a 2014 citation would misstate the record by $3,648,942.

What 72 unique donors are not

72 unique donors are not a census of State of Michigan. They are the identities attached to 273 itemized rows that summed to $262,017. Mean gift $960; mean per donor $3,639; about 3.8 rows each.

Household reuse of a workplace string is common on FEC forms. That inflates neither $3,910,959 nor $262,017 with “extra companies”; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have. 273 itemized contributions from 72 donors produced the cell. Unique donors are contributor keys, not employees counted by HR. This file does not invent names for those 72 identities.

How FEC cycle 2014 works on this join

Cycle 2014 is the second key in the join. Combined with STATE OF MICHIGAN, it produces $262,017. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of State of Michigan. The 2014 hub without State of Michigan is a different page. The State of Michigan hub without 2014 is a different page. Only the overlap is $262,017.

Outside $262,017: PACs, unitemized, awards

Outside $262,017: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC spending, and any federal award table. Inside $262,017: itemized individual receipts matching STATE OF MICHIGAN in cycle 2014.

The page is state-government employer text, not Michigan appropriations, a state PAC, or the State of Michigan as a treasury disbursement. Naming those exclusions keeps the join from being read as a company political budget. Self-reported employer text splits across spellings. STATE OF MICHIGAN is the key used here. Related titles and legal names are other keys and are not added into $262,017 or $3,910,959.

Snapshot versus live overlay

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If State of Michigan 2014 on the site shows a different total than $262,017, use the live overlay and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is the ties URL in the packet.

The body facts remain: STATE OF MICHIGAN × 2014 = $262,017, 273 contributions, 72 donors, 6.7% of $3,910,959. No other dollars are authorized. Use All FEC ties to find other two-dimension pages. Use State of Michigan 2014 for rows. This prose stays inside packet facts: $262,017, 273, 72, 6.7% of $3,910,959. Restating the join without new numbers: State of Michigan in 2014 is $262,017 from 273 itemized individual contributions and 72 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $3,910,959 across cycles, so 2014 is about 6.7% and other windows hold $3,648,942 (93.3%). The grouping is state-government employer text, not Michigan appropriations, a state PAC, or the State of Michigan as a treasury disbursement. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $960; mean per donor about $3,639; about 3.8 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2014 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $262,017.

Questions

How much did State of Michigan donors give in 2014?

$262,017 is the itemized-individual total for STATE OF MICHIGAN in 2014. Volume: 273 contributions, 72 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $262,017, 273 contributions, and 72 donors in the State of Michigan × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,910,959.

What share of State of Michigan FEC money is 2014?

2014 holds $262,017 of the $3,910,959 stored for State of Michigan, roughly 6.7%. The leftover $3,648,942 is other windows on the State of Michigan hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $262,017, 273 contributions, and 72 donors in the State of Michigan × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,910,959.

Does this include only State of Michigan employees?

The grouping is state-government employer text, not a verified roster. 273 itemized lines from 72 donors produced $262,017 in 2014. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $262,017, 273 contributions, and 72 donors in the State of Michigan × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,910,959.

Where is the overlay for the State of Michigan 2014 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: State of Michigan 2014, State of Michigan, 2014 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $262,017 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $262,017, 273 contributions, and 72 donors in the State of Michigan × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,910,959.