Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
City of Portage
Michigan
25 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$490K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$490K
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
21 filings
$420K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
9 filings
$180K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Brett Garson Smith Garson25 filingsthrough 2026
- Kristian Chin Smith GarsonCovered position: Scheduler/special assistant, Rep. Raul Ruiz; Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Zoe Lofgren24 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 2 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 25 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-portage.