Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
General Cigar Co Inc
Virginia
60 filings from 1 registrant · 2011–2026 · latest filed Jul 19, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.2M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.2M
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.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
60 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Tobacco
TOB
60 filings
$2.2M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 38 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Greg Means Alpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Representative Dennis Eckart47 filingsthrough 2022
- Lauren Bazel Alpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: Senior Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. Maria Cantwell; Tax Policy Advisor, Sen. John Kerry; Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. William Cowan40 filingsthrough 2024
- Michael Sean Haywood Alpine Group Partners, LLC.Covered position: LA, Senator Jim Bunning. LA, Rep. Dave Camp.35 filingsthrough 2026
- BOB R BROOKS jr Alpine Group Partners, LLC. Chief of Staff, Rep. Jim McCrery & Rep. Jay Dickey
The filings
The 20 most recent of 60 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: general-cigar-co-inc.