Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
City of Santa Clara
California
26 filings from 2 registrants · 2020–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$533K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$20K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$513K
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.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
26 filings
$533K on those filings
Transportation
TRA
21 filings
$452K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 22 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Casey Elliott Townsend Public AffairsCovered position: Director19 filingsthrough 2026
- Benjamin Goldeen Townsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jim Costa LD, LA; Rep. Dennis Cardoza LA13 filingsthrough 2024
- Joseph Melo Townsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jerry McNerney, PA12 filingsthrough 2026
- Laura Kroeger Townsend Public AffairsCovered position: Senior Associate
The filings
The 20 most recent of 26 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-santa-clara.