Champion Petfoods LP — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Champion Petfoods LP
Canada
12 filings from 2 registrants · 2019–2020 · latest filed Jan 21, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$560K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$560K
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.
Animals
ANI
11 filings
$510K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
3 filings
$140K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Tyson RedpathThe Russell Group, Inc.Covered position: Legislative Assistant for Rep. John Boehner7 filingsthrough 2020
William SmithCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Deputy Staff Director, House Approps Cmte; Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior Legislative Assist, House Member Office (Rogers); Staff Assistant, Senate Approps Cmte6 filingsthrough 2020
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Pearce); Director IGA USDA; Appropriations Associate House Member Office (Skeen & Bonilla)4 filingsthrough 2020
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: champion-petfoods-lp.
$270K
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
Thomas Hunt Shipman
Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.
Covered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte
2 filingsthrough 2019
Joseph BischoffCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.2 filingsthrough 2019
Christopher SarleyCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Policy Coordinator, House Energy & Commerce Committee; Policy Director, Sr Legis Asst, House Member Office (Shimkus); Sr Legis Asst, Legislative Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Staff Assistant, House Member Office (Hastert)2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 5 of 6 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
