Lobbyist Insight

Texas · 2012 – 2025

Charles Cooper

Named as receiving meals, gifts, travel or entertainment in 159 lobbying expenditure filings, from 5 different organisations or lobbyists.

$914 across the 9 items that carry an exact figure. The other 150 are filed as a bracket rather than an amount, so the real total is higher and cannot be calculated from what the state publishes.

What this is and is not. These are items that lobbyists and their employers reported spending, naming this person as a recipient. The filings themselves never say whether a named person is a legislator, a member of staff, a family member or a guest at the same event — Texas codes every one of them "INDIVIDUAL" — so any role shown above comes from matching the name against a published roster, and its absence means only that no match was found. Nothing here is a payment to them.

Who reported spending on them

Organisation or lobbyistItemsDisclosed
Williston V, Christopher L. (Mr.)66$735
Williston V, Christopher (Mr.)63$179
Sandberg Jr., J. Eric T. (Mr.)22—
Scurlock, Stephen Y. (Mr.)5—
Foster, Wendy M. (Ms.)3—

What it was for

CategoryItems
Transportation and lodging118
Food and beverage40
Gift1