Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Mecklenburg County
North Carolina
48 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$980K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$980K
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
36 filings
$760K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
27 filings
$540K on those filings
Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 1 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
- H.R. 1105 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.2 filingsthrough 2009
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.
- Brett Garson Smith Garson40 filingsthrough 2026
- Kristian Chin Smith GarsonCovered position: Scheduler/special assistant, Rep. Raul Ruiz; Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Zoe Lofgren26 filingsthrough 2026
- Kierstin Stradford-Patterson Smith GarsonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent and Systems Administrator, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings Legislative Assistant and Systems Administrator, Congressman Kweisi Mfume17 filingsthrough 2026
- James Broughton Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP6 filingsthrough 2009
The filings
The 20 most recent of 48 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: mecklenburg-county.