Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Ward & Smith on Behalf of Topsail Island Shoreline Protection Commission
North Carolina
22 filings from 1 registrant · 2020–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$269K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$269K
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.
Environment/Superfund
ENV
15 filings
$230K on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT
15 filings
$230K on those filings
Disaster Planning/Emergencies
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 3315 117th CongressTo revise the boundaries of a unit of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System in Topsail, North Carolina, and for other purposes.7 filingsthrough 2022
- H.R. 2437 118th CongressTown of North Topsail Beach Coastal Barrier Resources System Map Amendment6 filingsthrough 2024
- H.R. 2834
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, 1987-199316 filingsthrough 2024
- Stephanie Missert The Ferguson GroupCovered position: Intern for Senator Kirsten Gillibrands Buffalo Regional office, 2/2011-5/20129 filingsthrough 2022
- 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 - 8/2018-6/20205 filingsthrough 2024
The filings
The 20 most recent of 22 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: ward-smith-on-behalf-of-topsail-island-shoreline-protection-commission.