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City of Cottage Grove — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
City of Cottage Grove Minnesota
73 filings from 4 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 10, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$250K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$250K
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.
Q1 2008 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2008 · $0 · 1 filing Q3 2008 · $0 · 1 filing Q4 2008 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2009 · $0 · 2 filings Q2 2009 · $0 · 2 filings Q1 2010 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2010 · $0 · 1 filing Q3 2010 · $0 · 1 filing Q4 2010 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2011 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2011 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2012 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2012 · $0 · 1 filing Q3 2012 · $0 · 1 filing Q4 2012 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2013 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2013 · $0 · 1 filing Q3 2013 · $0 · 1 filing Q4 2013 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2014 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2014 · $0 · 1 filing Q3 2014 · $0 · 1 filing Q4 2014 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2015 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2015 · $0 · 1 filing Q3 2015 · $0 · 1 filing Q4 2015 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2016 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2016 · $0 · 1 filing Q3 2016 · $0 · 1 filing Q4 2016 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2017 · $0 · 1 filing Q2 2017 · $0 · 1 filing Q3 2017 · $0 · 1 filing Q4 2017 · $0 · 1 filing Q1 2022 · $15K · 2 filings Q2 2022 · $15K · 2 filings Q3 2022 · $20K · 2 filings Q4 2022 · $20K · 2 filings Q1 2023 · $20K · 2 filings Q2 2023 · $20K · 2 filings Q3 2023 · $20K · 2 filings Q4 2023 · $20K · 2 filings Q1 2024 · $10K · 2 filings Q2 2024 · $10K · 2 filings Q3 2024 · $10K · 2 filings Q4 2024 · $10K · 2 filings Q1 2025 · $10K · 2 filings Q2 2025 · $10K · 2 filings Q3 2025 · $10K · 2 filings Q4 2025 · $10K · 2 filings Q1 2026 · $10K · 2 filings Q2 2026 · $10K · 1 filing $0 $5K $10K $15K $20K '08 '10 '12 '14 '16 '22 '24 '26
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.
What they lobby on Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
17 filings
$80K on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
Who did the lobbying Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Michael Erlandson Aurora Strategic Advisors Covered position: Chief of Staff, U.S. House of Representatives18 filings through 2026 Kirk Bailey Smith Garson Covered position: Principal6 filings through 2009 James Patrick Smith Smith Garson Covered position: Principal6 filings through 2009 Thomas C Dawson Smith Garson Covered position: Principal
The filings The 20 most recent of 73 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
Period Registrant Type Reported Record 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2026 Downs Government Affairs 2nd Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗ 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026 Aurora Strategic Advisors
Coverage gaps · LD-2 reports a dollar figure per quarter, not per issue, per bill, or per lobbyist — so no breakdown on this page splits the total, and none is offered as one. Filings that report no activity money contribute filings and dates but no dollars.
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-cottage-grove.
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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.
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.
4 filings
through 2008
Hannah K Bernhardt Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Pllp Covered position: Scheduler3 filings through 2009
Dennis M Mcgrann Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Pllp Covered position: Chief of Staff, Special Assistant3 filings through 2009
Emily J Tranter Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Pllp Covered position: Research Assistant3 filings through 2009
Johnna White Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Pllp Covered position: Staff Assistant3 filings through 2009
Robert Long Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Pllp 3 filings through 2009
Megan G Knight Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Pllp 3 filings through 2009
Thomas C Downs Downs Government Affairs 2 filings through 2022
Andrew Burmeister Lockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Pllp Covered position: Legislative Assistant2 filings through 2009 Covered positions · 9 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2026 Downs Government Affairs 1st Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2025 Aurora Strategic Advisors 4th Quarter - Report — Filing · LD-2 ↗
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2025 Downs Government Affairs 4th Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30) 2025 Aurora Strategic Advisors 3rd Quarter - Report — Filing · LD-2 ↗
3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30) 2025 Downs Government Affairs 3rd Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2025 Aurora Strategic Advisors 2nd Quarter - Report — Filing · LD-2 ↗
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2025 Downs Government Affairs 2nd Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2025 Aurora Strategic Advisors 1st Quarter - Report — Filing · LD-2 ↗
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2025 Downs Government Affairs 1st Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2024 Aurora Strategic Advisors 4th Quarter - Report — Filing · LD-2 ↗
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2024 Downs Government Affairs 4th Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30) 2024 Aurora Strategic Advisors 3rd Quarter - Report — Filing · LD-2 ↗
3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30) 2024 Downs Government Affairs 3rd Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2024 Aurora Strategic Advisors 2nd Quarter - Report — Filing · LD-2 ↗
2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30) 2024 Downs Government Affairs 2nd Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2024 Aurora Strategic Advisors 1st Quarter - Report — Filing · LD-2 ↗
1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31) 2024 Downs Government Affairs 1st Quarter - Report (No Activity) $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31) 2023 Aurora Strategic Advisors 4th Quarter - Report $10K fee Filing · LD-2 ↗
