County of Merced — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
County of Merced
California
68 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed May 7, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1M
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.
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: county-of-merced.
$160K
fees reported
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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.
67 filings
$1M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
57 filings
$900K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
41 filings
$740K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
25 filings
$460K on those filings
Housing
HOU
17 filings
$170K 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.
116th Congress
Moving Forward Act
3 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 3055116th CongressFurther Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 20193 filingsthrough 2019
H.R. 5895115th CongressEnergy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 20193 filingsthrough 2018
H.R. 5055114th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 5394114th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2804114th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
S. 2844114th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20173 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 2609113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 2610113th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20143 filingsthrough 2013
S. 2322112th CongressTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20133 filingsthrough 2012
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Hb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)
Covered position: Congressman Lipinski, Chief of Staff, Congressman Acevedo-Villa, Legislative Director, Congressman Lipinski, Legislative Director
12 filingsthrough 2026
John Theodore AssiniHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: Senator Baldwin, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Panetta, Sr. Legislative Assistant, Senate Energy and Natural Resources, Majority Staff12 filingsthrough 2026
Curtis ErdmannCj Lake, LLC11 filingsthrough 2022
John AssiniCj Lake, LLC6 filingsthrough 2022
William FoxHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)Covered position: House Transportation Committee, Legislative Assistant4 filingsthrough 2024
Kevin P ForgettCj Lake, LLC3 filingsthrough 2022
Nadiah A CooperCj Lake, LLC3 filingsthrough 2022
Joseph C JankiewiczCj Lake, LLC3 filingsthrough 2014
Kevin ForgettHb Strategies (Fka Husch Blackwell Strategies)2 filingsthrough 2023
Covered positions · 5 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
