State Senator donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

How State Senator meets the 2012 cycle

State Senator in 2012 is $307,203, not $9,951,389. The larger figure is the occupation total across harvested cycles. Subtracting leaves $9,644,186 in other windows. STATE SENATOR is the typed title. SENATOR without the state prefix is a different occupation key. Chamber and state are unpublished.

A reader comparing State Senator to a nearby title should switch occupation pages rather than rescale 3.1%. Senator, State Representative, and Legislator each need their own cycle cells. This file quotes STATE SENATOR × 2012 only.

Correlation is not causation. A presidential-year total for State Senator does not prove motive, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset. FEC individual receipts and USAspending awards are different tables.

State Senator across harvested cycles

Other even-year joins for STATE SENATOR are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $9,644,186 (96.9%). Citing 2012 as if it were the State Senator lifetime total would overstate this cell by $9,644,186.

A later amendment that recodes occupation text can move a receipt out of STATE SENATOR. That would change 205, 117, and $307,203 together. Until a new harvest, the packet figures stand.

Receipt and donor counts for State Senator in 2012

205 remaining larger than 117 is the expected pattern when identities give more than once. Repeat gifts add receipts. 205 is a line count, not 117 one-time gifts. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by STATE SENATOR.

Contributor keys can cover people who gave in more than one cycle. This page’s 117 count is the 2012 slice under STATE SENATOR only. Do not treat it as a lifetime donor census for State Senator.

Where $307,203 sits inside State Senator

The national 2012 hub still includes every other occupation. Occupation pages for State Senator still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates State Senator × 2012.

Other cycles that complete $9,951,389 are not itemized here. $9,644,186 is the residual only. Naming those other years would invent packet fields.

Itemized individual receipts only

FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses STATE SENATOR. Senator, State Representative, and Legislator are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a chamber membership roll, a state-payroll extract, or a U.S. Senate roster.

State and ZIP cuts for State Senator in 2012 are unpublished here. Adding a geography claim would invent a dimension. Stick to occupation × cycle.

Using the State Senator and 2012 hubs

A state legislative job string is not a federal Senate seat list. This join records what filers typed. It does not verify current office. Senator as a shorter label lives on another occupation page. Independent expenditures remain outside the cell. USAspending awards remain a different dataset. Do not write a funding trail from $307,203 to federal obligations.

Do not rank State Senator as more or less politically active than another title. This packet has one occupation and one cycle. Comparison requires other cells.

The occupation string STATE SENATOR is copied from the FEC occupation field without a Bureau of Labor Statistics recode. State Senator in 2012 remains $307,203 on 205 itemized lines from 117 donor keys. Neighboring English is a different row.

Readers who need committee names should leave this overlay and open the State Senator occupation hub or the 2012 election-cycle hub. Those hubs are linked. This file does not invent committee names, donor names, or award recipients. $307,203 is an individual-contribution sum.

Itemization thresholds mean small gifts can exist outside $307,203. The packet does not estimate that omitted tail. Independent expenditures are a different FEC form class and are omitted from the State Senator × 2012 cell. Unitemized receipts are omitted.

The remainder $9,644,186 belongs to other harvested cycles under the same occupation string. This page does not name those other years because they are not packet fields. Quote 2012 only for $307,203.

Self-reported occupation is not verified employment. A filer can type STATE SENATOR while holding a different payroll title. The harvest groups on the typed string. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates remain the source.

Questions

How is the State Senator × 2012 number built?

Sum itemized individual contributions where occupation is STATE SENATOR and cycle is 2012. The harvest result is $307,203 from 205 receipts and 117 donors. No party or employer split is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source.

Can I add PAC totals to State Senator in 2012?

Not on this page. $307,203 is individual receipts. Committee filings, including professional-association PACs, are another FEC table. Mixing them with 205 individual lines would blend form classes. Use the occupation or cycle hub for committee cuts if published there.

Why is State Senator not recoded into a standard job code?

Because the facts are the filer-entered string STATE SENATOR. Recoding into a chamber membership roll, a state-payroll extract, or a U.S. Senate roster would invent a crosswalk. Senator, State Representative, and Legislator already show how nearby English splits across keys. Cite $307,203 for this string in 2012.

What remains outside the State Senator 2012 cell?

$9,644,186 of the State Senator occupation total sits in other cycles. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and other occupation strings are also outside $307,203. Donor names are unpublished. The cell itself is 205 lines from 117 keys.