Friday, June 15, 2012

Sources of Campaign Donations to Representative Jim Matheson

Representative Jim MathesonI’m adding Jim Matheson to the list of current Utah federal representatives who’s donations I’m analyzing. Below are charts & tables that summarize 2006-2012 campaign contribution data from MapLight (a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that seeks to show the impact of money on politics). I downloaded the data June 14, 2012. 

Individual donors are required to provide addresses to campaigns so it is easy to show the source of funds from a location perspective. For PACs it is difficult because if a PAC is set up by a company with a national or global presence then it is hard to identify a specific location. If on the other hand it is a PAC that represents an industry or cause then donors can come from anywhere in the US. For the PACs I went through the list and identified the ones that I determined had a significant presence in Utah (for corporations I looked up where they had offices or plants) then added a small fudge factor to this total to err on the side of donations from Utah. Note, similar to Hatch donations I did not take the time to research all of them but I did look for those that I thought would have a Utah presence first. Also, I generalized the industries for the PAC contributions (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals, Doctors, and Medical Devices are categorized as Healthcare) and added a pie chart to the sources PAC donations by Industry.

Unlike Senator Hatch or Representative Chaffetz a clear majority of Matheson’s donation came from PACs.

% Donations from PACs vs. Individuals
An interesting set of comparisons to look at is individual donations from Utah and total donations from Utah (Individuals + PACs).

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I was surprised that Matheson had such a high percentage of individual donations from Utah (66%). However, since PACs comprise 81% of his funding, even with a generous allocation of PAC sources to Utah (28%) his total Utah based donations were only 35%. Interesting enough although Matheson trailed Hatch significantly in total donations he beat Hatch by 10% in money raised through PACs.

PAC Contributions in % and $

Another fact that jumped out to me as I reviewed his PAC donors were the large number of donations from Unions (10%). I went back to Hatch and Chaffetz and looked at their Union % and found they were 1% and 6% for Chaffetz (6% was also a surprise). The bulk of Chaffetz Union donations were from the US Postal Workers Union.

Union Contributions in % and $

The source files, Matheson 2006-2012 Campaign Contributions  & Hatch-Chaffetz-Matheson 2006 Campaign Contribution Comparisons (Excel 2007), can be downloaded simply by clicking on the aforementioned filenames.

Here are the charts and tables for Representative Matheson:

2006-2012 Campaign Contributions for Jim Matheson:  % in Utah

2006-2012 Campaign Contributions for Jim Matheson: PAC vs. Individual

2006-2012 Campaign Contributions for Jim Matheson: Location of Individual Donors

2006-2012 Campagin Contributions for Jim Matheson: PAC Donations by Industry

  Contribution Amounts Percentage
Source   UT   Non-UT   Total     UT   Not UT
Individuals  $     690,409  $     357,967  $  1,048,376 19% 66% 34%
PACs  $  1,269,764  $  3,248,690  $  4,518,454 81% 28% 72%
Total  $  1,960,173  $  3,606,657  $  5,566,830 100% 35% 65%

Individual Contributions

   2006-2012   
State  Contributions  %

UT

 $             690,409 65.86%
DC  $               58,541 5.58%
VA  $               56,483 5.39%
NY  $               34,946 3.33%
MD  $               30,898 2.95%
WY  $               27,600 2.63%
TX  $               22,605 2.16%
CA  $               21,400 2.04%
CO  $               13,450 1.28%
NJ  $               13,350 1.27%
AZ  $               10,844 1.03%
FL  $                 7,300 0.70%
CT  $                 7,250 0.69%
IL  $                 7,000 0.67%
IN  $                 6,750 0.64%
MA  $                 6,250 0.60%
RI  $                 5,000 0.48%
OK  $                 4,000 0.38%
NV  $                 3,500 0.33%
MO  $                 3,500 0.33%
TN  $                 3,250 0.31%
OH  $                 2,000 0.19%
WA  $                 2,000 0.19%
NC  $                 2,000 0.19%
PA  $                 1,750 0.17%
OR  $                 1,000 0.10%
DE  $                 1,000 0.10%
ID  $                 1,000 0.10%
KS  $                 1,000 0.10%
MT  $                 1,000 0.10%
SC  $                     500 0.05%
NH  $                     300 0.03%
AR  $                     250 0.02%
LA  $                     250 0.02%
Grand Total  $         1,048,376 100.00%

 

 2006-2012 
Industry  Sum of Amount  %
Manufacturing  $                174,000 3.85%
Political  $                423,621 9.38%
Healthcare  $                915,701 20.27%
Finance  $                666,882 14.76%
IT  $                   58,486 1.29%
Insurance  $                228,700 5.06%
Defense  $                   65,500 1.45%
Transportation  $                138,171 3.06%
Legal  $                   60,800 1.35%
Energy  $                415,825 9.20%
Agriculture  $                   63,000 1.39%
Unions  $                438,500 9.70%
Construction  $                177,656 3.93%
Misc  $                   24,000 0.53%
Real Estate  $                   74,000 1.64%
Retail  $                381,112 8.43%
Communications  $                   95,000 2.10%
Media  $                105,500 2.33%
Education  $                     5,500 0.12%
Entertainment  $                     6,500 0.14%
Grand Total  $             4,518,454 100.00%

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