Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ward & Smith on Behalf of the Town of Topsail Beach
North Carolina
16 filings from 1 registrant · 2022–2026 · latest filed Apr 17, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$90K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$90K
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.
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
DIS
10 filings
$30K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
Natural Resources
NAT
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Christopher James Griffin The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Legislative Aide for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, 1/2021 - 3/2022 Legislative Aide for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 6/2020-1/2021 Staff Assistant for Chairman Murkowski, Energy and Natural Resources Committee - 8/2018-6/20207 filingsthrough 2026
- William Roger Gwinn The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Associate Staff Member at House Committee on Appropriations Legislative Director for Rep. Vic Fazio, 1987- 19937 filingsthrough 2026
- Stephanie Missert The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrands Buffalo Regional office, 2/2011-5/20123 filingsthrough 2022
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-smith-on-behalf-of-the-town-of-topsail-beach.