Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
City of Palo Alto
California
32 filings from 2 registrants · 2022–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$679K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$679K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$679K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
9 filings
$419K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Carlin E Shelby Townsend Public Affairs15 filingsthrough 2026
- Joseph Melo Townsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jerry McNerney, PA11 filingsthrough 2026
- Niccolo S Deluca Townsend Public Affairs8 filingsthrough 2024
- Peter J Kirsch Kaplan Kirsch LLP (Formerly Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP)5 filingsthrough 2023
- Benjamin Goldeen Townsend Public Affairs Rep. Jim Costa LD, LA; Rep. Dennis Cardoza LA
The filings
The 20 most recent of 32 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-palo-alto.