Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The Ferguson Group (on Behalf of Western Municipal Water District)
District of Columbia
15 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Apr 12, 2013
Reported on its behalf
$280K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$280K
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
14 filings
$280K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
13 filings
$260K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 5151 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.7 filingsthrough 2010
- H.R. 5151 110th CongressWild Monongahela Act: A National Legacy for West Virginia's Special Places2 filingsthrough 2008
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.
- David Kennett Capitol Alliance Consulting, LLCCovered position: Legislative Director to Rep. Calvert15 filingsthrough 2012
Covered positions · 1 of 1 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
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: the-ferguson-group-on-behalf-of-western-municipal-water-district.