Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Fair Food Network
Michigan
31 filings from 2 registrants · 2013–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$360K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$360K
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.
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
14 filings
$360K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
14 filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Barbara Patterson Torrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: 2007 Intern for Bill Nelson15 filingsthrough 2026
- Kathryn Naessens Torrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: Staff Asst/White House Liaison, Spec Asst MRP, Acting COS of OFS, Spec Asst OSEC for USDA; Policy Analyst/LA; Prof Staff, Sr Prof Staff15 filingsthrough 2026
- Kathleen Fitzgerald Kathleen Fitzgerald15 filingsthrough 2018
- Ashley Smith Torrey Advisory Group (Formerly Michael Torrey Associates, LLC)Covered position: USDA Deputy Director External and Intergovernmental Affairs, USDA Advance Lead
The filings
The 20 most recent of 31 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: the-fair-food-network.