UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB — 2016 cycle receipts

UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB locked to 2016

LobbyVault stores C00002766 as a committee and 2016 as a cycle. The overlap is this slug. Drop the committee and the remaining object is the 2016 hub. Drop the cycle and the remaining object is the committee hub across years.

Inside the overlap, receipts are $12,747,221.51 and disbursements are $12,542,235.44. C00002766 in 2016 stores cash on hand of $3,641,724.96, larger than the 2018 cash figure on the sibling slug. Receipts are $12,747,221.51 and individual contributions are $12,674,384.04.

What type N means for UFCW Active Ballot Club

UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB is a PAC filed as FEC type N. That letter is stored, not inferred from the nickname. The packet Super PAC flag is 0; do not relabel UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB in 2016 as a Super PAC page.

Do not add 2018 UFCW receipts into this 2016 cell. Quote C00002766 with the 2016 cycle tag. Receipts exceed disbursements by $204,986.07 in this extract.

Election cycle 2016 next to UFCW Active Ballot Club

FEC cycles are two-year federal election windows labeled by the even year. This cell uses 2016. 2016 is drawn from committee cycleHistory on this join.

Receipts exceed disbursements by $204,986.07 in this extract. A cycle label does not convert receipts into federal awards. Keep 2016 in the same sentence as UFCW Active Ballot Club and $12,747,221.51.

The two dollar columns for UFCW Active Ballot Club in 2016

Write $12,747,221.51 as receipts. Write $12,542,235.44 as disbursements. Do not write that UFCW Active Ballot Club “spent $12,747,221.51” unless you are looking at the disbursement column, which is $12,542,235.44. Labels travel with the figures.

UFCW Active Ballot Club is a type-N lobbyist/registrant PAC (designation B) in the 2016 presidential extract. 2016 is a presidential cycle tag. The 2018 overlay on the same ID is a different URL with a different dollar pair. Live overlays win if they refresh.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $12,747,221.51 in receipts and $12,542,235.44 in disbursements is a disclosure aggregate for UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB in 2016. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or control of an election.

Researchers should keep C00002766 as the committee key and 2016 as the cycle key. The packet Super PAC flag is 0; do not relabel UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB in 2016 as a Super PAC page. FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle from committee cycleHistory. Committee pages, not donor pages. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

How to read UFCW Active Ballot Club money in 2016

Read $12,747,221.51 as UFCW Active Ballot Club receipts in 2016. Read $12,542,235.44 as UFCW Active Ballot Club disbursements in 2016. Read type N as a PAC filed as FEC type N. The packet Super PAC flag is 0; do not relabel UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB in 2016 as a Super PAC page. 2016 is a presidential cycle tag. The 2018 overlay on the same ID is a different URL with a different dollar pair.

Receipts exceed disbursements by $204,986.07 in this extract. Do not recode this join into the 2018 UFCW cell, a Super PAC flag, or a donor roster. Correlation is not causation.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: committee UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB (C00002766), election cycle 2016, receipts $12,747,221.51, disbursements $12,542,235.44, FEC type N, Super PAC flag 0. The 2018 UFCW Active Ballot Club join and other 2016 labor PACs stay on other pages. The 2016 election-cycle hub still mixes every other committee. All committees and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

What a reader may not do with $12,747,221.51: treat it as a donor roster, treat it as a 2016 grand total for every committee, or treat it as money that funded USAspending awards. What a reader may do: quote the pair, quote disbursements $12,542,235.44 with its own label, quote the source FEC.gov, and follow the four internal links. Cash on hand in this extract is $3,641,724.96.

No occupation split, no state split, and no named-donor list appears here. If a later extract revises $12,747,221.51 or $12,542,235.44, the live UFCW Active Ballot Club overlay and the live 2016 page control. This JSON file is a snapshot of packet facts, not a third disclosure system. 2016 is a presidential cycle tag. The 2018 overlay on the same ID is a different URL with a different dollar pair.

Questions

What did UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB report to the FEC in 2016?

Receipts of $12,747,221.51 and disbursements of $12,542,235.44 for committee C00002766 in election cycle 2016. Type code N. Super PAC flag 0. Those are the packet facts. The 2016 cycle hub still includes other committees; this page isolates UFCW Active Ballot Club. Source: FEC.gov committee receipts by election cycle.

Is this the UFCW Active Ballot Club committee page or a 2016 page?

Neither hub restated. It is the join: UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB and election cycle 2016. Receipts $12,747,221.51. Disbursements $12,542,235.44. Open the committee link for C00002766 across years. Open the 2016 election-cycle link for every committee in that year. All committees and All FEC ties list sibling pages. Source: FEC.gov.

Why do receipts and disbursements differ for UFCW Active Ballot Club?

Receipts exceed disbursements by $204,986.07 in this extract. Quote receipts $12,747,221.51 and disbursements $12,542,235.44 as separate columns for committee C00002766 in 2016. Type N does not change the arithmetic. Named donors are not in this packet and are not invented. Extra packet fields, if present, stay labeled as stored.

Did UFCW Active Ballot Club receipts pay for federal awards in 2016?

No. $12,747,221.51 is an FEC committee receipt total for UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB in 2016. USAspending awards are a different dataset and a different statute. This join does not treat campaign receipts as contract or grant funding. Disbursements of $12,542,235.44 are also campaign-finance figures, not federal obligations. Source: FEC.gov.