Writer political contributions from Virginia

The Writer–Virginia intersection

Occupation WRITER and donor state VA produce $1,393,856, 5,464 contributions, and 243 donors. The occupation hub is $80,210,868, 312,329 contributions, and 8,768 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 1.7%; contribution share about 1.7% (5,464 of 312,329); donor share about 2.8% (243 of 8,768). Two hundred forty-three Virginia donors are 2.8% of 8,768 national WRITER donors, while dollars ($1,393,856 of $80,210,868) are about 1.7%. Headcount share outruns dollar share on this Virginia cell.

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

243 Virginia donors produced 5,464 contributions, about 22.5 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 Virginia cell is about $255, against about $257 nationwide. Virginia’s share of $80,210,868 is an address-coded slice, including whatever mix of Northern Virginia and elsewhere the MA-style two-letter code cannot show. Mean gift here is about $255, near the national Writer mean of about $257.

WRITER on Virginia-coded receipts

WRITER is a filer-entered string. The occupation string does not record a Pentagon contract, a magazine masthead, or a freelance 1099. It records the word WRITER. 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 Virginia (VA). This page locates the Virginia overlap. It does not classify the 243 Virginia donors as federal contractors, novelists, or staff writers.

Virginia as donor state

243 Virginia donors produced 5,464 contributions totaling $1,393,856. Donor state VA is the address on the record, not proof of a Virginia license, and not a limit to Virginia candidates. VA is the address on the itemized record. Proximity to Washington, D.C. is a geography fact, not an FEC field for employer or clearance. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. This join is only WRITER. The Writer occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 98.3% of the $80,210,868. Virginia’s state hub includes every occupation coded to VA. WRITER is only this filter.

What not to infer from Writer plus Virginia

This page does not treat these donors as federal contractors, merge Author dollars, or claim that Writer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. WRITER plus VA is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not a contracting map.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. WRITER is not a byline census or contractor roster. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Writer filter

Subtract the Virginia 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 ($78,817,012) 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 243 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 5,464 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,393,856 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Virginia dollars, or only the WRITER national total, drops a key. Two hundred forty-three donors producing 5,464 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,393,856 headline.

Related tables

Writer donations holds the $80,210,868 national occupation total. Virginia 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. Minnesota’s Writer join is a different state cell with a higher row-per-donor figure; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Writer donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation WRITER and state Virginia total $1,393,856, from 5,464 contributions and 243 donors. Nationwide, WRITER-coded receipts are $80,210,868 from 312,329 contributions and 8,768 donors. Virginia is about 1.7% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are Virginia Writer donors federal employees?

The file does not say. Occupation is WRITER and state is VA. Two hundred forty-three donors are not a contractor or civil-service headcount. The 243 Virginia donors used occupation WRITER and state VA. Filers who wrote AUTHOR or TECHNICAL WRITER 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 Virginia?

About 1.7% of the $80,210,868 occupation total is in this Virginia join ($1,393,856). Virginia also accounts for about 1.7% of contributions (5,464 of 312,329) and about 2.8% of donors (243 of 8,768). About 1.7% of dollars from 243 of 8,768 donors and 5,464 of 312,329 contributions.

Does this money go to Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,393,856 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to VA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.