Ben Franklin Transit — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ben Franklin Transit
Washington
69 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2025 · latest filed Jan 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.2M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
55 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
45 filings
$879K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
DALE LEARN esqGordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental AffairsCovered position: LA - Senator Patty Murray & Rep. Adam Smith56 filingsthrough 2021
Paul Kelsey HooverGordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental AffairsCovered position: Rep. Adam Smith's office in 2015 intern admin aide and legislative asst.28 filingsthrough 2021
Travis LumpkinGordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental AffairsCovered position: SEA - Murray; LA - Cantwell; SA - Larsen13 filingsthrough 2014
Nathaniel Jameson PotterGordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental Affairs
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period
Registrant
Type
Reported
Record
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2025
Covino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: ben-franklin-transit.
$189K
fees reported
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Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
spend on filings that named this issue
Covered position: LC - Senator Patty Murray & SA - Rep. Jay Inslee
12 filingsthrough 2011
Jennifer CovinoCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)4 filingsthrough 2025
David Simon GellmanCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)4 filingsthrough 2025
Ivonne Hernandez LopezCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)4 filingsthrough 2025
Sommer Sivichane SisonCovino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)1 filingthrough 2025
Covered positions · 4 of 8 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Covino Smith & Simon, Inc. (Formerly Simon and Company, Inc.)
