Writer political contributions from Minnesota

The Writer–Minnesota intersection

Occupation WRITER and donor state MN produce $1,427,137, 7,432 contributions, and 129 donors. The occupation hub is $80,210,868, 312,329 contributions, and 8,768 donors. Minnesota’s dollar share is about 1.8%; contribution share about 2.4% (7,432 of 312,329); donor share about 1.5% (129 of 8,768). One hundred twenty-nine Minnesota donors are 1.5% of 8,768 national WRITER donors. Contribution share (7,432 of 312,329) is about 2.4%, ahead of the 1.8% dollar share of $80,210,868.

AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, and FREELANCE WRITER, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack WRITER with AUTHOR or JOURNALIST into a single Minnesota professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

129 Minnesota donors produced 7,432 contributions, about 57.6 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 35.6 rows per donor nationally (312,329 contributions from 8,768 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Minnesota cell is about $192, against about $257 nationwide. Minnesota’s $1,427,137 is a row-heavy slice of a large creative occupation, not a ranking of Twin Cities publishers. Mean gift here is about $192, below the national Writer mean of about $257.

WRITER as a short creative occupation string

WRITER is a filer-entered string. The file does not split fiction, journalism, technical writing, or advertising copy. The single word WRITER is the filter. The $80,210,868 national total is WRITER only. 8,768 donors produced 312,329 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 312,329 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Minnesota (MN). This page locates the Minnesota overlap. It does not name publishers, bylines, or union cards for the 129 Minnesota donors.

Minnesota as donor state

129 Minnesota donors produced 7,432 contributions totaling $1,427,137. Donor state MN is the address on the record, not proof of a Minnesota license, and not a limit to Minnesota candidates. MN is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Minnesota workplace and not a limit to Minnesota candidates. Media and freelance work can cross state lines while the donor-state code stays MN.

The Minnesota campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MN. This join is only WRITER. The Writer occupation hub without Minnesota still holds about 98.2% of the $80,210,868. Minnesota’s state hub includes every occupation coded to MN. WRITER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Writer plus Minnesota

This page does not merge Author dollars, count guild members, or claim that Writer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. WRITER does not record genre, employer, or whether the filer also used AUTHOR on other receipts.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. WRITER is not a writers-guild or byline census. Donor state MN is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Book titles and mastheads are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Writer filter

Subtract the Minnesota dollars on this page from the national WRITER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded WRITER in every other state combined. That remainder ($78,783,731) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 129 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 7,432 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,427,137 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Minnesota dollars, or only the WRITER national total, drops a key. One hundred twenty-nine donors producing 7,432 contributions is the row-heavy fact to keep next to the $1,427,137 headline.

Related tables

Writer donations holds the $80,210,868 national occupation total. Minnesota campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Virginia and Colorado have separate Writer occupation-state ties with different facts; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Writer donors in Minnesota given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation WRITER and state Minnesota total $1,427,137, from 7,432 contributions and 129 donors. Nationwide, WRITER-coded receipts are $80,210,868 from 312,329 contributions and 8,768 donors. Minnesota is about 1.8% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Writer include authors and journalists?

Only if the filer typed WRITER. AUTHOR and JOURNALIST are other occupation keys. One hundred twenty-nine Minnesota donors used WRITER plus MN. The 129 Minnesota donors used occupation WRITER and state MN. Filers who wrote AUTHOR or JOURNALIST may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Writer FEC money is from Minnesota?

About 1.8% of the $80,210,868 occupation total is in this Minnesota join ($1,427,137). Minnesota also accounts for about 2.4% of contributions (7,432 of 312,329) and about 1.5% of donors (129 of 8,768). About 1.8% of dollars from 129 of 8,768 donors; contribution share is about 2.4%.

Does this money go to Minnesota candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Minnesota. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,427,137 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MN; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.