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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
57 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
30 filings
$715K on those filings
Housing
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Corinne TakkinenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Director56 filingsthrough 2026
Samantha MacielTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Sen. Kamala Harris District Representative18 filingsthrough 2026
Laura KroegerTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate18 filingsthrough 2021
Kristen CarpentierTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate
The filings
The 20 most recent of 63 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
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-buena-park.
HOU
26 filings
$690K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM
20 filings
$485K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
19 filings
$462K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
13 filings
$330K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
9 filings
$257K on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
URB
5 filings
$97K 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 spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
12 filingsthrough 2015
Christopher TownsendTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: President12 filingsthrough 2014
Heather StratmanTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Vice President12 filingsthrough 2014
Dana DebeaumontTownsend Public Affairs12 filingsthrough 2013
Carlin E ShelbyTownsend Public Affairs10 filingsthrough 2026
Cindy BoydTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate10 filingsthrough 2015
James PetersonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Director9 filingsthrough 2017
Jonathan B JacksonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate7 filingsthrough 2020
Bryan LanzaTownsend Public Affairs5 filingsthrough 2014
Jessica FernandezTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate3 filingsthrough 2014
Zachary ComminsTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Associate2 filingsthrough 2018
Covered positions · 11 of 14 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
