Lobbyist Insight

Texas · 2005 – 2018

Joe Straus

Identified in the Open States roster as Republican, House, district 121.

Named as receiving meals, gifts, travel or entertainment in 43 lobbying expenditure filings, from 29 different organisations or lobbyists.

$1,670 across the 16 items that carry an exact figure. The other 27 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
Kelley, Russell T.5—
Greytok, John (Mr.)4—
Kelley, Russell T. (Mr.)3—
Edmonds, Shannon (Mr.)2$72
Aschmann, Adam (Mr.)2$58
Taylor Krier, Cyndi (Mrs.)2—
Schulze, Paul (Mr.)2$767
Barrett, Gary (Mr.)2$24
Lancaster, David1$35
Couch, Leland (Mr.)1$430
Sherman, Lynn Ray1—
Bujanda, MIryam (Ms.)1$25
Valdez, Gerald A. (Mr.)1$62
Sparks, Andrea (Ms.)1—
Waggoner, Amy (Ms.)1—
Looney, Robert L (Mr.)1—
Sherman, Lynn (Mr.)1$20
Hargraves, Jo Anne1—
Volkening, Ronnie (Mr.)1—
Gilbert, Robert (Mr.)1—
Hull, Stacey (Mrs.)1—
Foster, Wendy1$20
Lett, Sam (Mr.)1—
McCoy, Meagan1$12
Boyer, Victor (Mr.)1$25
Lucas, Travis (Mr.)1—
Davis, Mark C. (Mr.)1—
James, Nick (Mr.)1$121
McClean, Lilyanne H. (Ms.)1—

What it was for

CategoryItems
Food and beverage22
Gift19
Entertainment2