7 filings from 1 registrant · 2021–2023 · latest filed Oct 19, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$135K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$135K
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.
Natural Resources
NAT
6 filings
$113K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
5 filings
$113K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
H.R. 188118th CongressProven Forest Management Act of 20222 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 934118th CongressTo require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out activities to suppress wildfires, and for other purposes.2 filingsthrough 2023
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Benjamin GoldeenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Rep. Jim Costa LD, LA; Rep. Dennis Cardoza LA8 filingsthrough 2023
Samantha MacielTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Sen. Kamala Harris District Representative6 filingsthrough 2022
Eric ThronsonTownsend Public Affairs3 filingsthrough 2023
Anastasia HeatonTownsend Public Affairs3 filingsthrough 2023
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: golden-state-natural-resources-inc.
2 filings
$45K 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.
WILLIAM CLYBURN jr
Townsend Public Affairs
Covered position: Vice Chairman & Commissioner, U.S. Surface Transportation Board; Senior Counsel to former U.S. Senator Zell Miller
1 filingthrough 2021
Thomas Hunt ShipmanTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Maj Staff Dir Sen Ag Cmte, Dep Und Sec Farm; Foreign Ag; LA Senate Member Office (Cochran); Senate Approps Cmte1 filingthrough 2021
Matt D GallTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Clerk - House Natural Resources Committee1 filingthrough 2021
Chris JonesTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Mike Ferguson, 2001-2009; Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. David McIntosh, 1995-2001; Communications Director, House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee, 1996-2001; Press Secretary, Rep. John Myers, 1994-1995.1 filingthrough 2021
Adam HigginsTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Rep. Mike Ferguson, 2007-2008.1 filingthrough 2021
Joseph BischoffTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2021
Lester MunsonTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Staff Dir. SFRC; COS Sen. Kirk; Asst. Cong. Kirk; Sen. Policy Adv. Sen. Spec. Cmte. Aging; Dep. Asst. Admin. USAID; Comms Dir SFRC; Comms Dir. and Professional Staff HFAC1 filingthrough 2021
Greg OrlandoTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Counsel, Senate Commerce Cmte 2013-16; Counsel, Sen. Roger Wicker 2011-13; Policy Specialist, Commerce Dept., 2010-11; Legal Advisor, FCC 2008; Leg Dir/Counsel, Rep. Mike Ferguson 2005-08; and Leg Dir, Rep. John Doolittle 2003-05.1 filingthrough 2021
Maya SeidenTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Sp. Asst to Cab Sec., WH; Advisor CoS, Energy Dept.; Sp Asst to Sec of Energy; Sen Advisor, Off of Dep. Sec of State; CoS Office of the Dep Sec of State for Management and Res.1 filingthrough 2021
Crystal EllerbeTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Legislative Assistant - Sen./Rep. David Vitter1 filingthrough 2021
Mark TavlaridesTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Dir. for Leg. Affairs, Nat'l Security Council // Sr. Spec. Asst., Office of Sec'y of Defense1 filingthrough 2021
Kevin EdgarTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: House Financial Services Committee: Chief Counsel, 2017-2019; Chief Securities Counsel, 2016-2017; Senior Counsel, 2007-2016.1 filingthrough 2021
Andrew WinerTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: Chief of Staff - Sen. Brian Schatz1 filingthrough 2021
Fred TurnerTownsend Public AffairsCovered position: COS, Sen. Menendez; COS, US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; COS, Rep. Hastings1 filingthrough 2021
Katelyn Conner BunningTownsend Public Affairs1 filingthrough 2021
Covered positions · 15 of 19 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
