Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
City of Aiken
South Carolina
12 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2020 · latest filed Jul 15, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$110K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$110K
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
4 filings
$40K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
2 filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Mary Catherine Brooks Smith GarsonCovered position: Director of the Northeast-Midwest Coalition6 filingsthrough 2018
- Catherine Beal Smith Garson3 filingsthrough 2020
- Brett Garson Smith Garson1 filingthrough 2020
- Michael Bauman Smith Garson1 filingthrough 2019
Covered positions · 1 of 4 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
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: city-of-aiken.