Texas · 2011 – 2014

John Barton

Named as receiving meals, gifts, travel or entertainment in 14 lobbying expenditure filings, from 5 different organisations or lobbyists.

$507 across the 4 items that carry an exact figure. The other 10 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 lobbyist	Items	Disclosed
Johnson, Thomas L. (Mr.)	7	—
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.	2	$168
Boyer, Victor (Mr.)	2	$339
Newton, Jennifer (Mrs.)	2	—
Suhm, Vic	1	—

What it was for

Category	Items
Transportation and lodging	9
Food and beverage	5