Metropolitan Council — lobbying record — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Metropolitan Council
Minnesota
39 filings from 2 registrants · 2017–2024 · latest filed Jan 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$265K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$265K
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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Transportation
TRA
33 filings
$265K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
30 filings
$250K on those filings
Housing
HOU
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Jeremy David BrattJeremy Bratt ConsultingCovered position: Leg Director, Sen. Blumenthal Leg Director, Sen. Dorgan Leg Director/Dep Chief of Staff, Rep. Walz Sr. Professional Staff, House Ag Cte Legislative Asst, Sen. Dorgan Research Asst, Sen. Dayton Dep. Director Leg Affairs, Interior Dept28 filingsthrough 2024
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: metropolitan-council.
$115K
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.
20 filings
$100K 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.
11 filingsthrough 2019
Dennis M McgrannLockridge, Grindal, Nauen, PllpCovered position: Committee Staff Director, House Chief of Staff, Special Assistant at the Department of Energy9 filingsthrough 2018
Edward KimLockridge, Grindal, Nauen, PllpCovered position: House Senior Health Policy Adviser, Committee Policy Coordinator, House Senior Policy Adviser2 filingsthrough 2019
Nicholas KowalskiLockridge, Grindal, Nauen, Pllp2 filingsthrough 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
