FEC REPORTS ON FINANCIAL ACTIVITY 1989 - 1990 FINAL REPORT .. PARTY AND NON-PARTY POLITICAL COKMITTEES VOL.II STATE AND LOCAL PARTY DETAILED TABLES FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 999 E Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20463 OCTOBER 1991 I I I I I I I I FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION Commissioners John w. McGarry, Chairman Joan D. Aikens, Vice Chairman Lee Ann Elliott, Thomas J. Josefiak Danny L. McDonald Scott E. Thomas 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 System Development Division, who coordinated the production of this REPORT. Copies of 1989-1990 FINAL REPORT, PARTY AND NON-PARTY POLITICAL COMMITTEES, may be obtained b 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. DESCRIPTION OF REPORT iv II. SUMMARY OF TABLES vi III. EXPLANATION OF COLUMNS viii 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 Missouri 37 Colorado 7 New York 43 Idaho 13 Ohio 49 Kansas 19 South Dakota 55 Maryland 25 Virginia 61 Michigan 31 Wisconsin 67 SELECTED FINANCIAL ACTIVITY OF REPUBLICAN STATE AND LOCAL POLITICAL COMMITTEES AND THEIR ASSISTANCE TO CANDIDATES BY OFFICE AND PARTY Alabama 79 Missouri 121 Colorado 85 New York 127 Florida 97 North Dakota 133 Idaho 103 Pennsylvania 139 Kansas 109 Texas 145 Masasachusetts 115 Vermont 151 Minnesota 121 West Virginia 157 I DESCRIPTION OF REPORT PURPOSE: local major party committee, while VOLUME This study is designed to provide III (Corporate and Labor) and VOLUME IV information on the financial transactions (No Connected Organization, Trade of Democratic, Republican, and non-party Membership Health, Cooperative, political committees, with emphasis on Corporation Without Stock) do the same those transactions which support can­ for each non-party political committee. didates for Federal office, for the period which began on January 1, 1989. WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED: Political committees, which are entities This study only provides information registered with the Federal Election for the Democratic and Republican parties Commission, report their financial rather than for all party committees, activity to the Commission on a periodic both major and minor, which are basis. Information on receipts, registered with the Federal Election disbursements, and debts from these re­ Commission. The study does not contain ports has been entered into the all of the information reported by the Commission's computer system; programs committees. have been used to produce all TABLES included in this study. The TABLES are LIMITATIONS: organized into four VOLUMES. VOLUME I, This report is a final report SUMMARY TABLES, provides data for the designed to give a complete picture of Democratic and Republican national the financial activity which occurred political committees and Presidential during the 1989-1990 election cycle. convention committees, for all state and Available at the Commission for local major party committees by state inspection are microfilmed copies of the totals and overall total, and for all original reports which show information non-party committees by six group totals; as reported by the filers. The it also includes tables providing microfilmed public record is the official information on contributions made to record of the Federal Election candidates. VOLUME II, STATE AND LOCAL Commission. This final study is one of PARTY DETAILED TABLES, presents financial several tools which have been developed information for each registered state and to summarize the vast quantity of data -iv- available on the microfilmed public record. PERIOD COVERED: The beginning point for information in this study is committee reports on financial activity which occurred after December 31, 1988. As subsequent reports pertaining to 1989-90 activity were received during 1989, 1990, and 1991, 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 August 23, 1991, and used certain 1989-1990 data which had been entered up to and including that date. -v- 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 CORKITTEES 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 which 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 -vi- 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 this 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. -vii- 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, 1989 (or its initial reported are given in 1989 "cash on hand" if it registered parenthesis. (Party political committees subsequent to 1/1/89) 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 1990 "cash on hand." These balances are taken TABLE A STATE TOTALS OF SELECTED from Line 10 (Line 8). FINANCIAL ACTIVITY OF DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN