Milwaukee, WI political money — 2008 cycle

The city-cycle join for MILWAUKEE in 2008

LobbyVault isolates contributor city MILWAUKEE (WI) crossed with cycle 2008. The isolated total is $220,473 on 202 itemized Schedule A lines. Put beside the city book of $73,400,945, the 2008 window is 0.3% of Milwaukee, WI itemized individual dollars in this extract. $73,180,472 remains in other even-year tags on the same city key.

A JOIN page exists because two tables meet. Opening only Milwaukee, WI hides the year. Opening only 2008 election cycle hides the city. Opening Wisconsin campaign finance mixes Milwaukee, WI with every other Wisconsin city. All FEC ties is the index of other two-dimension pages. None of those four URLs is a duplicate of $220,473.

The packet facts stop at city, state, city-wide total, cycle, cycle total, and contribution count. No donor names appear here because none appear in the packet. No committee list appears here because none appears in the packet. FEC.gov is the source system; LobbyVault is an index of aggregates.

Where Milwaukee, WI sits in the FEC city field

MILWAUKEE is an address string, not a metro statistical area. Milwaukee County, Wisconsin is the usual map location for this key. Nearby labels — Wauwatosa, West Allis, and Brookfield — stay out unless a filer typed MILWAUKEE. those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into MILWAUKEE. $73,400,945 therefore does not equal “the metro’s political money.”

The all-cycle city total mixes presidential windows and midterm windows. $220,473 is only the 2008 tag. Do not add $220,473 to $73,400,945; the city book already contains this slice. Subtracting is valid: $73,400,945 − $220,473 = $73,180,472 in other cycles. Adding would double-count.

2008 as a two-year FEC window

2008 on an FEC receipt is an even-year cycle code. 2008 is a presidential election cycle. Itemized Milwaukee, WI dollars inside that code: $220,473. Itemized Milwaukee, WI rows inside that code: 202. The cycle hub still mixes every U.S. city. This join does not.

Amended filings can move either dollar figure after this snapshot. If the live Milwaukee, WI hub or the live 2008 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Itemized rows versus unique people

202 itemized contributions totaling $220,473 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of MILWAUKEE. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Milwaukee versus other Wisconsin cities: this join has one geography and one cycle.

Mean gift size of about $1,091 uses only the two numbers in the join: $220,473 and 202 rows. It is a trivial ratio, not a finding about wealth, turnout, or ideology. Employer and occupation strings on those receipts are other joins. This city-cycle page does not break the $220,473 out by occupation, industry, or recipient committee. Unitemized gifts and Wisconsin state-office filings sit outside $220,473.

Repeat the filters in one sentence: contributor city MILWAUKEE, state WI, election cycle 2008, itemized dollars $220,473, itemized rows 202, all-cycle city dollars $73,400,945. Any citation that drops the cycle or drops the city is a different claim. 2008 is a presidential election cycle. That label is a two-year FEC window, not a reason the dollars moved and not a ranking of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin against other places.

State pages still mix other Wisconsin cities

Wisconsin campaign finance still mixes cities. The 2008 cycle still mixes states. Milwaukee, WI still mixes years. Only this path applies both filters. All FEC ties is the catalog of other filter pairs (city-industry, occupation-cycle, and the rest).

FEC receipts are not USAspending obligations. Do not claim that $220,473 funded federal awards in Wisconsin or in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Different datasets, same country, no cash pipeline in this packet.

Neighboring city strings remain outside this join. Around Milwaukee, WI, filers also use labels such as Wauwatosa, West Allis, and Brookfield; those nearby strings are separate FEC city keys and are not rolled into MILWAUKEE. Those dollars, if any, sit on other city keys. Unitemized federal gifts, independent expenditures, PAC transfers, and Wisconsin state-office filings sit outside $220,473 and outside $73,400,945. FEC.gov is the source; USAspending is a different statute and is not funded by these receipts.

FEC receipts are not federal spending awards

A 0.3% cut can sit next to 202 itemized gifts. 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.

Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and election cycle. Quote both $220,473 and $73,400,945 when summarizing Milwaukee, WI in 2008.

Questions

What is the Milwaukee, WI FEC total for 2008?

$220,473 in itemized individual contributions, from 202 receipts tagged city MILWAUKEE and cycle 2008. Source: FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The all-cycle city figure is $73,400,945, which already includes this $220,473. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and Wisconsin state-office filings sit outside both numbers.

How does 2008 compare with all Milwaukee, WI cycles combined?

2008 is 0.3% of the Milwaukee, WI city book: $220,473 out of $73,400,945. The other 99.7% is $73,180,472 in other even-year tags. That is a dollar share inside one city key, not a rank against other cities and not a share of the national 2008 cycle, which is not in these facts.

Are Milwaukee, WI 2008 gifts limited to Wisconsin candidates?

No. The facts identify donor city, not recipient office or recipient state. Committees anywhere in the FEC system can receive itemized gifts from MILWAUKEE addresses. $220,473 is not a map of Wisconsin races, and this join does not allocate dollars by party or committee.

What does 202 contributions mean for Milwaukee, WI in 2008?

It is a count of itemized contribution records that sum to $220,473. Repeat donors produce multiple rows. The mean line is about $1,091. Unique people, medians, and unitemized gifts are not in this packet, so 202 is not a household or voter census for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.