Lobbying · Washington State · Lobbying firm
KRISTOPHER I TEFFT
KRISTOPHER I TEFFT reported $1.3M in lobbying compensation over 2016–2026, from 40 clients.
$1.3M
reported in compensation
Reported by this firm to the Public Disclosure Commission as compensation received for lobbying.
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 2016–2026, money received
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What they were paid, by year
Lobbying is reported monthly and totalled here by calendar year. A year with no row is a year with no reported compensation, not a year we have not read.
| Year | Compensation | Share of their largest year |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $183K | |
| 2025 | $360K | |
| 2024 | $325K | |
| 2023 | $132K | |
| 2022 | $81,916 | |
| 2021 | $60,000 | |
| 2020 | $44,000 | |
| 2019 | $44,000 | |
| 2018 | $48,000 | |
| 2017 | $12,000 | |
| 2016 | $21,100 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 11 years on record
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Who paid them
Every organisation that this firm named as a source of its compensation. Self-funded filings — the firm reporting its own money — are excluded.
| Registered lobbyist | Years registered |
|---|---|
| KRISTOPHER I TEFFT | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 |
| KRISTOPHER TEFFT | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 40 listed
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Connected records
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REGISTERED FOR · 2025
American Council Of Life Insurers
L-1 registration 109750 — AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURERS (Brewer Public Affairs) · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · 2026
American Council Of Life Insurers
L-1 registration 109750 — AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURERS (Brewer Public Affairs) · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · 2025
American Family Mutual Insurance
L-1 registration 97173 — AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE (Brewer Public Affairs) · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · 2026
American Family Mutual Insurance
L-1 registration 97173 — AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE (Brewer Public Affairs) · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · 2025
American Property Casualty Insurance Association
L-1 registration 95908 — AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION (Brewer Public Affairs) · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · 2026
American Property Casualty Insurance Association
L-1 registration 95908 — AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION (Brewer Public Affairs) · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · 2025
Architects and Engineers Legislative Council
L-1 registration 110376 — Architects and Engineers Legislative Council (Brewer Public Affairs) · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · 2026
Architects and Engineers Legislative Council
L-1 registration 110376 — Architects and Engineers Legislative Council (Brewer Public Affairs) · as of 2026-01-01
Nothing on file
Bills lobbied on are not in the graph yet — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded. No adjacency observation appears here: no shared address or agent record has been read into an edge for this firm, which is not the same as none existing.
Checked 2026-10-20
Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-10-20 · edges 30 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built
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What this page will not compute
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- What this money bought
- Compensation is what was paid, not what was achieved. The record does not connect a payment to a bill, a vote or an outcome, and we will not infer one — a firm retained all session may have lost every argument it made.
- Who was lobbied
- Washington requires lobbyists to report what they were paid and by whom. It does not require them to report which legislators they spoke to, so nothing here names an officeholder.
- Everything this firm earned
- This is reported lobbying compensation. Other work the firm does for the same clients is not lobbying and is not reported here.
- Whose number this is
- Every figure on this page comes from the lobbying firm’s own report naming its funding source. Employers file separately, and the two accounts need not agree. Where they differ we show the firm’s, because that is the filing that itemises by source.
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“KRISTOPHER I TEFFT,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-10-20, accessed 2026-11-14. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/kristopher-i-tefft/
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Where this page comes from
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- WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist compensation (L2 reports)
- https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists
- WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist employment registrations
- https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists
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