Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
South Com
Illinois
70 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$2.1M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$2.1M
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
34 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Economics/Economic Development
ECN
33 filings
$1M on those filings
Urban Development/Municipalities
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Brett Garson Smith GarsonCovered position: Principal69 filingsthrough 2026
- Kristian Chin Smith GarsonCovered position: Scheduler/special assistant, Rep. Raul Ruiz; Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Legislative Assistant, Rep. Zoe Lofgren22 filingsthrough 2026
- James Patrick Smith Smith GarsonCovered position: Principal20 filingsthrough 2019
- Kierstin Stradford-Patterson Smith GarsonCovered position: Legislative Correspondent and Systems Administration, Rep. Elijah Cummings Legislative Assistant and Systems Administration, Rep. Kweisi Mfume
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 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: south-com.