Friends of the Fight — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Friends of the Fight
District of Columbia
29 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2017 · latest filed Jan 18, 2018
Reported on its behalf
$830K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$830K
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
29 filings
$830K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
28 filings
$820K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Mark William MurrayCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff House Cmte Office33 filingsthrough 2017
James RichardsCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS, House Member Office, Dir IGA USDA22 filingsthrough 2013
Susan SweatCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: LC, LA & LD House Office (Wicker); LD Senate Member Office (Wicker)21 filingsthrough 2017
Mark MioduskiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc. Staff Assistant, House Approps Committee
The filings
The 20 most recent of 29 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: friends-of-the-fight.
28 filings
$820K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
1 filing
$10K 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.
Covered position:
20 filingsthrough 2013
Alice Joan GomezCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.14 filingsthrough 2017
Erik FatemiCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Prof Staff Senate Approps Cmte (Byrd, Inouye, Mikulski)12 filingsthrough 2017
Michael HigdonCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: COS House Member Office (Rogers); LA House Member Office (Bartlett); LC & CD House Member Office (Packard)8 filingsthrough 2016
Lauren AckilCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.5 filingsthrough 2008
Michelle MrdezaCornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.Covered position: Professional Staff, House Approps Committee2 filingsthrough 2008
Covered positions · 7 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
