Lobbyist Insight

Texas · 2008 – 2025

Chris Turner

Identified in the Open States roster as Democratic, House, district 101 · roster lists service 2009 to present. Filings here begin earlier, so that term list is incomplete rather than a mismatch.

Named as receiving meals, gifts, travel or entertainment in 58 lobbying expenditure filings, from 23 different organisations or lobbyists.

$1,598 across the 19 items that carry an exact figure. The other 39 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
Weist, Jon (Mr.)16—
English Jr., C. M. (Mr.)5$499
Speight, Dennis (Mr.)5$712
Geske, Matthew (Mr.)4$76
Ballew, Joel D. (Mr.)4$51
Lett, Sam3—
Cawley, Jennifer (Ms.)3—
Couch, Leland (Mr.)2—
Martinez III, Ray (Mr.)2$110
Ingersoll, Deborah C.1—
Busby, Heather1—
Koenig, Linda (Ms.)1—
Vane, Mark1—
Lett, Sam (Mr.)1—
Ballew, Joel (Mr.)1—
Massingill, Gavin (Mr.)1—
Geske, Matthew Duncan (Mr.)1—
Joiner, Caroline M. (Ms.)1—
Hairston, Davis A. (Mr.)1—
Jordan, Walter E.1—
Fields, James (Mr.)1$150
McWilliams, Dean R.1—
Doner, Patti (Mrs.)1—

What it was for

CategoryItems
Food and beverage43
Gift5
Entertainment5
Transportation and lodging5