Great Falls, VA political money — 2012 cycle

Remainder math for Great Falls after 2012

$31,073,102 minus $147,549 equals $30,925,553. $147,549 is 0.47% of the city book; $30,925,553 is 99.5%. Both percentages use the same denominator. They are not shares of Virginia and not shares of the national 2012 cycle. A thin slice of the citywide book describes this pair only.

The 2012 piece still has a row count (94, a modest itemized file) and a mean (about $1,570). 2012 is a presidential election cycle. Calendar class and remainder dollars are separate facts. Neither identifies recipients or donors by name.

What each hub still holds for Great Falls, VA

The city hub still holds $31,073,102, including the 2012 slice. The 2012 election cycle hub still holds every city, including Great Falls. This tie page holds only the overlap. Reading any one of those three pages as if it were the other two is the error this URL is meant to prevent.

Great Falls sits in Fairfax County, Virginia. Great Falls, Montana is a different state key; McLean and Reston are neighboring Virginia strings. State VA is part of the key. Virginia campaign finance includes this city and every other city in the state; do not stack $147,549 onto that total.

Donor city is not recipient city. A VA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Virginia candidate. Party, office, and committee ID are not in this packet.

Omitted money

Unitemized gifts never enter $147,549 or $31,073,102. Independent expenditures never enter them. State-office campaigns never enter them. Federal contract and grant obligations never enter them. All FEC ties lists other LobbyVault joins; none converts FEC receipts into USAspending awards.

City labels are filer-entered. Adjacent suburbs and neighborhood names are other keys. 94 counts lines stored as GREAT FALLS in 2012, not a metro total.

No ranking, no motive

This page does not rank Great Falls against other cities and does not treat itemized giving as public opinion. Correlation is not causation. Amended filings can revise either dollar figure. If live pages disagree, the newer FEC extract controls.

Source note, restated: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Original reports remain on the Commission site. LobbyVault indexes the join so a reader can hold $147,549 for Great Falls, VA in 2012 without mistaking it for the $31,073,102 city book. If a later extract disagrees, the Commission filing controls.

Source and next links

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Continue to Great Falls, VA, the 2012 election cycle, Virginia campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Operational definition: 94 itemized contributions totaling $147,549 for Great Falls, VA in 2012, against $31,073,102 citywide.

Dollar share (0.47%) and row volume (94) are separate facts. A thin dollar slice can sit next to a modest itemized file; those labels describe this pair, not other cities. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.47% as Great Falls's share of the 2012 national cycle.

Occupation, industry, and committee cuts of $147,549 are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the 94 receipts by employer, occupation, party, or recipient. Inventing those breakdowns would go beyond the facts. The only names on this page are the stored city string GREAT FALLS, the state VA, and the cycle year 2012.

A candidate who lives in Great Falls can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. A candidate who lives elsewhere can raise money from Great Falls; those gifts are this join when the contributor city stored GREAT FALLS. Residence of the candidate is not a field in this packet. $147,549 is contributor geography in cycle 2012, nothing else.

Operational definition: contributor city GREAT FALLS in VA during election cycle 2012 equals $147,549 across 94 itemized individual contribution records. The same city label across every cycle in this extract equals $31,073,102. Subtracting the cycle from the book leaves $30,925,553 in other even-year windows. Those three dollar figures and the row count are the entire numeric inventory for this page. FEC.gov is the source. No donor names, committee IDs, occupation strings, or award recipients appear in the packet, so none are invented in this prose.

Questions

Why does Great Falls, VA have a separate 2012 page?

Because the city hub and the cycle hub answer different questions. Great Falls, VA across cycles is $31,073,102. 2012 nationally mixes every donor city. The tie page isolates contributor city GREAT FALLS in VA during cycle 2012: $147,549 across 94 itemized receipts.

Can I add $147,549 to the Virginia state total?

Do not add it a second time. Virginia campaign-finance pages already include Great Falls when the same extract is used. Double-counting $147,549 inflates the state figure. This join is a filter, not a new pool of money sitting outside the state table.

What does the 2012 cycle tag mean for Great Falls?

2012 is a presidential election cycle: a two-year FEC window, not a single calendar year of January gifts. Inside that window, Great Falls, VA donors itemized $147,549 on 94 rows. The tag is the Commission’s cycle field on the receipt, not an explanation of motive.

Does this page name Great Falls committees or donors?

No. The packet has city, state, cycle, cycle dollars, cycle row count, and citywide dollars. It does not list contributor names, committee IDs, occupations, or parties. Inventing those labels would go beyond FEC.gov aggregates stored here. Use the live hubs for row-level browsing.