Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ward and Smith on Behalf of the Village of Bald Head Island, Nc
North Carolina
13 filings from 1 registrant · 2023–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$130K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$130K
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
8 filings
$80K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
8 filings
$80K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- William Roger Gwinn The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987- 19939 filingsthrough 2026
- Christopher B. Kearney The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Professional Staff - House Resources Committee - 1991-1997 House Budget Committee - 1997-2001 Professional Staff - Senate Energy and Natural Resources - 2014-2017Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy - DOI - 2001-20088 filingsthrough 2026
- Christopher James Griffin The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Aide for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, 1/2021 - 3/2022Legislative Aide for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 6/2020-1/2021 Staff Assistant for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 8/2018-6/20208 filingsthrough 2026
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: ward-and-smith-on-behalf-of-the-village-of-bald-head-island-nc.