VP political contributions from Texas

VP is one axis; Texas is the other

An occupation-state page is not a restatement of VP and not a restatement of Texas. It is the cell where they meet: $2,331,764, 9,190 contributions, 350 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state are the source note.

On the occupation side, VP is the exact string VP. On the state side, TX is the address on the itemized record, not a map of which campaigns received $2,331,764. Functional vice-president versus regional vice-president titles as typed is unpublished.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $29,934,385 is the national VP bucket. The Texas hub is every grouping in that state. The join is $2,331,764. VP is the two-letter abbreviation. Vice president spelled out is a neighboring occupation. This Texas cell does not merge those spellings.

Texas is not the whole VP story

VP across all states is $29,934,385. VP in Texas is $2,331,764 — 7.8%. The gap is $27,602,621. Closing that gap would require other state joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the Texas overlay still sees $2,331,764 for this string, not $29,934,385. A reader who only opens the occupation hub still needs the state filter to recover $2,331,764.

What 350 unique donors are not

350 unique donors are not a census of VP. They are the identities attached to 9,190 itemized rows that summed to $2,331,764. Mean gift $254; mean per donor $6,662; about 26.3 rows each.

Household reuse of a title string is common on FEC forms. That does not add extra occupations into $2,331,764; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have.

Self-reported fields and missing tables

Missing from this packet: party split, employer list, recipient committees, median gift, and functional vice-president versus regional vice-president titles as typed. Those omissions are why the page is a join brief rather than a full filing dump.

What remains is enough for a clean citation: VP × Texas = $2,331,764 on 9,190 receipts from 350 donors, 7.8% of $29,934,385. Source: FEC.gov. VP is the two-letter abbreviation. Vice president spelled out is a neighboring occupation. This Texas cell does not merge those spellings.

Two filters, one URL

Two filters produced this URL: occupation VP and donor state TX. The product is $2,331,764. One filter is not enough. That is why VP donations and Texas campaign finance remain parent links rather than substitutes.

All FEC ties is the index if the next question is a different occupation-state pair. All occupations is the index if the next question is a neighboring title such as vice president, vice-president, EVP, and SVP.

Repeat the join without adding fields the packet does not publish. The occupation and state hubs remain the places for one-sided totals. This tie page quotes packet facts only. Independent expenditures stay outside the cell. Filer-entered occupation strings are not payroll titles. Readers who need a person-level roster will not find names on this page. USAspending.gov is a different ledger from FEC.gov individual contributions.

All occupations and All FEC ties remain the indexes for sibling joins. Cite the source note exactly as copied from the packet. Do not convert a contribution count into a unique-person census. Dollar figures first, then the two keys that produced them. The canonical path is a ties URL, not a donor-detail URL. Unitemized gifts are outside the itemized aggregate quoted here.

Nearby job titles belong on their own occupation hubs if stored as other strings. A mean gift is dollars divided by itemized lines, not a typical check. Public records describe overlap; they do not assign motive. Repeat the join in one line: occupation VP ∩ state TX = $2,331,764, 9,190 receipts, 350 donors, 7.8% of $29,934,385. Neighbors remain vice president, vice-president, EVP, and SVP. Source remains FEC.gov.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged VP in Texas?

FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates show $2,331,764 from occupation VP with donor state TX. That join covers 9,190 contributions from 350 donors. Nationwide the occupation totals $29,934,385, so Texas is about 7.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

How much of the $29,934,385 VP bucket is TX?

About 7.8% of the $29,934,385 VP grouping is coded to Texas: $2,331,764. Contribution share is about 10.3% (9,190 of 88,987). Donor share is about 7.2% (350 of 4,850). The remainder $27,602,621 is other states.

Is VP the same as vice president?

No. 350 is the unique-donor count in this occupation–state cell as aggregated from itemized FEC lines, not a labor-market census. Mean gift in the cell is about $254 across 9,190 contributions. Vice president, vice-president, EVP, and SVP, if stored separately, are other keys. This join is VP only.

Why is there a VP × Texas page?

VP donations carry the $29,934,385 occupation total. Texas campaign finance is the state hub. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the VP × TX intersection only.