FEC REPORTS ON FINANCIAL ACTIVITY 1991 - 1992 FINAL REPORT PARTY AND NON-PARTY POLITICAL COMMITTEES VOL.II STATE AND LOCAL PARTY DETAILED TABLES FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 999 E Street, N.w. Washington, D.C. 20463 JANUARY 1994 FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION Trevor Potter, Chairman Danny L McDonald, Vice Chairman Joan D. Aikens, Commissioner Lee Ann Elliott, Commissioner John Warren McGarry, Commissioner Scott E. Thomas, Commissioner Donnald K. Anderson, Ex Officio Clerk of the u.s. House of Representatives Walter J. Stewart Secretary of the Senate John c. Surina, Staff Director Lawrence M. Noble, General Counsel Comments and inquiries about format should be addressed to the Reports Coordinator, Data Systems Development Division, who coordinated the production of this REPORT. Copies of 1991-1992 FINAL REPORT, PARTY AND NON-PARTY POLITICAL COMMITTEES, may be obtained by writing to the Public Records Office, Federal Election Commission, 999 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20463. Prices are: VOL. I - $10.00, VOL. II - $10.00, VOL. III - $10.00, VOL. IV - $10.00. Checks should be made payable to the Federal Election Commission. -i- TABLE OF CONTENTS I. DESCRIPTION OF REPORT iii II. SUMMARY OF TABLES v III. EXPLANATION OF COLUMNS vii IV. TABLES: SELECTED FINANCIAL ACTIVITY AND ASSISTANCE TO CANDIDATES, DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN STATE AND LOCAL POLITICAL COMMITTEES A. SELECTED FINANCIAL ACTIVITY OF DEMOCRATIC STATE AND LOCAL POLITICAL COMMITTEES AND THEIR ASSISTANCE TO CANDIDATES BY OFFICE AND PARTY Alabama 1 Nebraska 43 Colorado 7 North Carolina 49 Delaware 13 Oklahoma 55 Idaho 19 Texas 61 Kentucky 25 Virginia 67 Minnesota 37 West Virginia 73 SELECTED FINANCIAL ACTIVITY OF REPUBLICAN STATE AND LOCAL POLITICAL COMMITTEES AND THEIR ASSISTANCE TO CANDIDATES BY OFFICE AND PARTY Alabama 79 Montana 127 Colorado. 91 New York 133 District of Columbia 97 Oklahoma 139 Georgia 103 Rhode Island 139 Indiana 109 Utah 151 Maine 115 Washington 157 Minnesota 121 Wisconsin 163 -ii- I I I I I I I I I DESCRIPTION OF REPORT PURPOSE: No Connected Organization, Trade This study is designed to provide Membership Health, Cooperative, information on the financial transactions Corporation Without Stock) do the same of Democratic, Republican, and non-party for each non-party political committee. political committees, with emphasis on those transactions which support can­ WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED: didates for Federal office, for the This study only provides information period which began on January 1, 1991. for the Democratic and Republican parties Political committees, which are entities rather than for all party committees, registered with the Federal Election both major and minor, which are Commission, report their financial registered with the Federal Election activity to the Commission on a periodic Commission. The study does not contain basis. Information on receipts, all of the information reported by the disbursements, and debts from these re­ committees. ports has been entered into the Commission's computer system; programs LIMITATIONS: have been used to produce all TABLES This report is a final report included in this study. The TABLES are designed to give a complete picture of organized into four VOLUMES. VOLUME I, the financial activity which occurred SUMMARY TABLES, provides data for the during the 1991-1992 election cycle. Democratic and Republican . national Available at the Commission for political committees and Presidential inspection are microfilmed copies of the convention committees, for all state and original reports which show information local major party committees by state as reported by the filers. The totals and overall total, and for all microfilmed public record is the official non-party committees by six group totals; record of the Federal Election it also includes tables providing Commission. This final study is one of information on contributions made to several tools which have been developed candidates. VOLUME II, STATE AND LOCAL to summarize the vast quantity of data PARTY DETAILED TABLES, presents financial available on the microfilmed public information for each registered state and record. local major party committee, while VOLUME III (Corporate and Labor) and VOLUME IV -iii- PERIOD COVERED: The beginning point for information in this study is committee reports on financial activity which occurred after December 31, 1990. As subsequent reports pertaining to 1991-92 activity were received during 1991, 1992, and 1993, the dollar figures contained on them were entered into the computer system and added to earlier information. The computer programs which produced this Re­ port's TABLES were run on November 29, 1993, and used certain 1991-1992 data which had been entered up to and including that date. -iv- II SUMMARY OF TABLES The TABLES in this VOLUME are TABLE A, "SELECTED FiNANCIAL designed to show selected information for ACTIVITY OF STATE AND LOCAL POLITICAL all registered Democratic and Republican COMMITTEES AND THEIR ASSISTANCE TO state and local party political CANDIDATES BY OFFICE AND PARTY," displays committees.* (State and local party receipt, disbursement, and debt political committees are those committees information for Democratic and Republican that are part of the official party party committees. Total receipts and structure at the State, or local level, total disbursements, which are shown which have registered as political first in their respective places, are not committees under the Federal Election necessarily accurate reflections of the Campaign Act, as amended.) (Note that "real" money that is available for the 1979 Amendments to the Federal political campaign financing. These Election Campaign Act relax the figures are sometimes inflated, due in registration and reporting requirements large part to the fact that these sums for local party organizations by include receipts from affiliated modifying the definition of which committees. Net Receipts and net activities cause such an organization to disbursements, which appear next have become a political committee.)Also removed those transfers and are more provided, at the end of the listings of accurate measures of actual money raised state and local committees, is and spent. information for major party committees formed by Americans in foreign countries. The remaining information in this The EXPLANATIONS OF COLUMNS for national TABLE on specific types of receipts and and for state and local committees disbursements provides a partial picture provides detailed definitions of columns of a political committee's exact income and explanations of organization; they and spending. As was noted in the should be used in conjunction with the DESCRIPTION OF REPORT where the omitted TABLES. information was enumerated, the selected *This final study excludes party in order to avoid the double-counting of joint fundraising committees and all money, therefore, the study excludes financial activity wh~ch they have activity reported by the joint reported. The study already includes the fundraising committees themselves. net proceeds reported by the beneficaries of the joint fundraising -v- receipts and disbursements do not add up to the total receipts and disbursements. TABLE A next provides a committee's "cash on hand" and debts figures. Amounts of its assistance to candidates* by Federal office and party, which are shown after "cash on hand" and debts, indicate its candidate activity. *Note that some of th1s assistance may have been to individuals who may not be statutory "candidates" under the 1979 Amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act, e.g., an individual seeking nomination to Federal office who has not received contributions or made expenditures aggregating in excess of $5,000. -vi- III EXPLANATION OF COLUMNS STATE AND LOCAL PARTY POLITICAL COMMITTEES This section explains the special terms TOTAL RECEIPTS: that appear as labels of the different This column includes all incoming columns, how the amount is derived for funds reported on Line 18. each column and, where appropriate, the significance of the column. Words TOTAL INDIV CONTRIB: included in this section are listed in The sum of contributions from the order in which they appear in each individuals (both itemized and table. Readers are encouraged to unitemized) is reported here. Values are consult this section regularly as they taken from Line lla Column A of each use the report. report filed by the party committee. Readers should be aware that the terms as used in this report may be TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS: defined differently than they are in the This column includes all outgoing Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as funds reported by a political committee amended. on Line 28 - Total Disbursements. The line number and (where appropriate) the schedule letter of the BEGINNING CASH-ON-HAND: April 1988 FEC Form 3X on which the A political committee's "cash on receipt and disbursement information was hand" on January 1, 1991 (or its initial reported are given in 1991 "cash on hand" if it registered parenthesis. (Party political committees subsequent to 1/1/91) is given in this are those committees that are part of the column. This beginning cash balance is official party structure at the national, reported on Line 6. State, or local level, which have registered as political committees under LATEST CASH-ON-HAND: the Federal Election Campaign Act, as These amounts are a political amended.) committee's most recently reported 1992 "cash on hand." These balances are taken TABLE A STATE TOTALS OF SELECTED from Line 10 (Line 8). FINANCIAL ACTIVITY OF DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN STATE AND LOCAL POLITICAL DEBTS OWED TO: COMMITTEES AND THEIR ASSISTANCE TO This column represents the CANDIDATES BY OFFICE AND PARTY outstanding debts and obligations owed TO -vii- the listed political committee. The Schedule B. amounts are taken from Line 9 of the committee's latest report. CONTRIB TO CANDID 1991: The proportion of TOTAL CONTRIB TO DEBTS OWED BY: CAND made during 1991 is shown here. The outstanding debts and These may represent contributions to debt obligations owed BY the listed political retirement from previous races, committee are given in this column.