Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
The San Diego Union-Tribune, LLC
California
2 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2021 · latest filed Apr 19, 2021
Reported on its behalf
$100K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$100K
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.
Retirement
RET
2 filings
$100K on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
1 filing
$50K 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 — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 133 116th CongressConsolidated Appropriations Act, 20211 filingthrough 2020
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.
- Robert Hickmott The Smith-Free Group, LLC3 filingsthrough 2021
- Trevor W. Kolego The Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: ​​​Leg. Assist, Rep. Chris Cannon; Leg. Director, Rep. Jon Porter; Manager of Member Services, Leader John Boehner; Director of Member Services, Speaker John Boehner3 filingsthrough 2021
- Chris Scribner The Smith-Free Group, LLC2 filingsthrough 2020
- JACK S DEUSER jr The Smith-Free Group, LLCCovered position: ​​​​Ch. of Staff, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning; Leg. Dir., U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning1 filingthrough 2020
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-san-diego-union-tribune-llc.