State Senator political money — 2008 FEC cycle

Reading $160,960 as a join, not a hub

STATE SENATOR in 2008 is $160,960. That sentence needs both nouns. Drop State Senator and the number is no longer this occupation. Drop 2008 and the number is no longer this window. These are itemized individual gifts by filers who listed STATE SENATOR as occupation, not a state senate’s campaign account. $160,960 from 168 receipts and 108 donors is 1.6% of $9,951,389. This file does not name officeholders.

Volume sits beside the dollars: 168 itemized contributions, 108 unique donors, about 1.6 lines per donor. This JSON does not invent donor names. Itemized individual receipts only.

Occupation hub dollars versus this window

$9,951,389 is every harvested cycle for STATE SENATOR. 2008 contributes $160,960. The occupation hub is the place to compare other even-year cells. This JSON does not list those other cells’ dollars because they are not in the facts.

Filer-entered labels split. STATE SENATOR is the stored occupation. Nearby wording is a different page.

Repeat gifts and the 168 line count

Line count 168 versus donor count 108 yields about 1.6 gifts per identity. Mean dollars $958 per line and $1,490 per donor sit on the same three facts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $160,960. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $9,951,389. Live pages control if they disagree with this snapshot.

STATE SENATOR versus related occupation strings

The string STATE SENATOR is not NAICS, not a license ID, and not a donor page. It is self-reported officeholder occupation, not a chamber treasury. Related names remain other keys. $160,960 does not absorb them.

Motive, party, and recipient strategy are not in the facts. This file does not speculate. 108 donors and 168 contributions are counts, not a narrative about why people gave.

Share language on this page always means $160,960 as a fraction of $9,951,389 (about 1.6%), never as a fraction of all 2008 FEC receipts. No cycle-wide denominator is in the facts. The remainder inside the grouping is $9,790,429.

The donor count 108 and the contribution count 168 should be cited together with $160,960. Omitting volume makes a large or small mean invisible. Derived means are $958 per line and $1,490 per donor.

Snapshot versus live tables

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If the live occupation or cycle page shows a different total than $160,960, use the live table and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is the ties URL in the packet.

The body facts remain: STATE SENATOR × 2008 = $160,960, 168 contributions, 108 donors, 1.6% of $9,951,389. No other dollars are authorized.

Two-year FEC windows collect itemized receipts from both years. 2008 is that window. Election-night totals are a different grain and are not computed here.

State Senator is self-reported officeholder occupation, not a chamber treasury. The FEC does not certify payroll or licenses on this aggregate. Senator, state representative, legislator, and state assembly remain other pages. $160,960 is the exact-string 2008 cell.

Keeping State Senator 2008 on its own path

Keep State Senator × 2008 on /ties/state-senator-2008-donations/ so the occupation hub and the year hub can stay general. Mixing $160,960 into either hub’s headline would hide the join.

Canonical path /ties/state-senator-2008-donations/ is the explanation URL. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Keep USAspending out of the sentence that reports $160,960. Keep PAC disbursements out. Keep unitemized gifts out. The authorized dollars are itemized individual contributions matching STATE SENATOR in 2008.

The occupation string STATE 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 $160,960 if they carried this occupation string.

Unique donors in this packet number 108. This file does not publish names for those keys. Repeat gifts explain why contributions (168) exceed donor keys.

Unitemized gifts never enter $160,960. 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 STATE SENATOR and cycle 2008, then $160,960, source FEC.gov.

All occupations lists sibling titles without summing them into this cell. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Use those indexes to move, not to add dollar figures.

Questions

How much did State Senator-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $160,960 in itemized individual contributions for occupation State Senator in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 168 contributions and 108 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $9,951,389, so 2008 is 1.6% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What remainder sits outside 2008 for State Senator?

$9,790,429 (98.4%) of $9,951,389 sits outside 2008. The 2008 slice is $160,960 (1.6%), from 168 contributions and 108 donors. Quote both the slice and the remainder so the occupation hub is not mistaken for a two-year total. Occupation labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts.

Does this count every state senator who donated in 2008?

No. The 108 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to STATE SENATOR in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $160,960 on 168 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate. Senator, state representative, legislator, and state assembly are other keys if stored separately.

Where are the live State Senator and 2008 tables?

State Senator donations carries the $9,951,389 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places State 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 State Senator × 2008 intersection only.