THE FERGUSON GROUP, LLC ON BEHALF OF WARD & SMITH, PA (FOR HOLDEN BEACH, NC)

Lobbying client · District of Columbia · filed 2025 to 2026

Government Relations, lobbying, and grant writing

$16,000 Reported spend

12 Filings counted

2 Outside firms hired

0 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 12 filings. The LDA keeps a separate client record for every registrant that files for a client, so this page adds up 2 records, one per registrant listed below. Records are combined when the client name matches once case, punctuation and endings such as Inc. or LLC are set aside; for a city, county or port the state has to match as well.

Who filed for this client 2

STEPHANIE MISSERT $10,000 Outside firm · 6 filings
EARL STOCKDALE $6,000 Outside firm · 6 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $0 4 filings
2025 $16,000 8 filings

Issues lobbied 7

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

Agencies and chambers lobbied 3

Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers) 4
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 4
SENATE 4

Recent filings 12 total

Q2 reportNo activity

EARL STOCKDALE

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · posted Jun 19, 2026

View → Q2 terminationNo activity

STEPHANIE MISSERT

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · posted Apr 28, 2026

View → Q1 reportNo activity

STEPHANIE MISSERT

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · posted Apr 18, 2026

View → Q1 report

EARL STOCKDALE

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · posted Mar 27, 2026

View → Q4 reportNo activity

STEPHANIE MISSERT

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · posted Jan 6, 2026

View → Q4 reportNo activity

EARL STOCKDALE

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · posted Dec 18, 2025

View → Q3 reportNo activity

STEPHANIE MISSERT

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · posted Oct 12, 2025

View → Q3 reportNo activity

EARL STOCKDALE

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · posted Sep 22, 2025

View → Q2 reportNo activity

EARL STOCKDALE

2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · posted Jul 2, 2025

View → Q2 report

STEPHANIE MISSERT

2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · posted Jul 1, 2025

View → Q1 report

STEPHANIE MISSERT

1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $10,000 income · posted Apr 15, 2025

View → Q1 report

EARL STOCKDALE

1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $6,000 income · posted Apr 4, 2025

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Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.