What office is Joe Burns running for?

County Commissioner, as filed with the Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle.

How much has Joe Burns raised?

$52,659 reported raised and $44,778 reported spent, from 144 reported contributors, as of the last filing we read. Figures change as reports are filed and amended.

What party is Joe Burns?

The filing states “DEMOCRATIC”. Washington ballots carry a party preference, not a membership, and this page says only what the filing says.

Who is spending money about Joe Burns?

Independent expenditures and electioneering communications total $1,813 supporting and $0 opposing, as two separate figures. The spenders are filed on the C-6 and are named in section 04 where the sync has carried them.

Candidate · PDC filing · 2026 cycle · filer BURNJ–284

Joe Burns

Joe Burns is running for County Commissioner in Skagit Co in 2026. This page is the campaign’s own filings with the Public Disclosure Commission: what it raised, who gave it, where it went, and what others spent about the candidate. It is not a record of holding office; that is a different page.

DDemocraticCounty CommissionerSkagit Co

Filed as: Joseph John Burns legal name on the declaration; the ballot name is above
Office, as filed: COUNTY COMMISSIONER · SKAGIT CO
Party preference: as stated on the filing: DEMOCRATIC

Source Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings (C-1) and reports (C-3, C-4) · as of 2026-10-21 · key PDC filer id — the one identifier the state issues a campaign · note names, office and party are copied from the filing; only the capitalisation is ours

What the campaign raised and spent

Reported to the Public Disclosure Commission by the campaign itself. Figures are as filed — the PDC publishes what candidates report, and a late or amended filing changes them.

$52,659

raised

$44,778

spent

$7,881

cash on hand

As of the most recent report, not today.

144

contributors

$366

average contribution

Total divided by reported contributors.

Source Washington Public Disclosure Commission, candidate C-3 contribution and C-4 expenditure filings · as of 2026-10-21 · contributors 144 reported · note independent expenditures are filed by the spending committee, are not in these figures, and are in section 04 · how candidate money is tracked

Largest reported contributors

Individual contributions above the itemisation threshold. Smaller giving is reported as a lump and is included in the total above but cannot be broken out.

Largest reported contributors to this campaign
Contributor	Amount	City	Employer
Skagit County Democrats	$10,279	Mount Vernon
Joseph John Burns (Joe Burns)	$1,500	Sedro-Woolley
WINKES ANNE	$1,200	CONWAY	Not Employed
Gregorius Ashley	$1,200	Burlington	Vision Plus Silver Lake
Laborers Local 292	$1,200	Everett
Shavers Clyde	$845	Oak Harbor	WA State House of Representatives
RPEC PAC	$750	Olympia
Joe Burns	$567
STUDLEY DIANE	$500	Mount Vernon

Individual contributors, grouped by stated employer
Employer stated by contributors	Contributors	Amount
Skagit County	1	$600
No employer stated	9	$8,500

Why some contributors are not named. Private individuals are not named on this site unless their own public conduct — holding or seeking office, running an agency, or testifying to the legislature — already makes them a public figure. Their giving is shown here aggregated by the employer they stated. The full itemised record is public at the PDC.

3 of 9 listed contributors stated an employer. The field is filled in by the donor, and a blank means only that it was left blank. It doubles as an occupation box, so “retired” and “self-employed” appear in it too and are not a shared workplace.

Last checked 2026-10-21

Source Public Disclosure Commission contribution reports · as of 2026-10-21 · 9 named, 2 aggregated

Where the money went

The largest payees this site names. The category is the code the campaign chose when filing, not our classification of it.

Largest named payees of this campaign
Vendor	Amount	Category as filed
Overnight Printing	$18,112	Printing literature, fliers, postcards, etc.
Capitol City Press	$1,936	Printing literature, fliers, postcards, etc. ,Accounting, legal, regulatory compliance, etc.,Printing campaign signs,Campaign merchandise/paraphernalia
Shavers Clyde	$845	Inkind contribution
TLS Prints	$617	Printing literature, fliers, postcards, etc. ,Campaign merchandise/paraphernalia
Skagit Publishing LLC	$600	Digital advertising
Joe Burns	$567	Inkind contribution
Skagit County Democrats	$529	Inkind contribution
E & E Lumber, INC	$212	Other

12 payees are not named. 2 are filed under a private individual’s name, paid $1,352 in all. Private individuals paid by a political committee or a campaign are not named on this site unless their own public conduct already puts them in the record. 10 could not be shown to be either a person or an organisation — the expenditure filing carries no payee type, and neither the PDC’s contributor file nor a legal form such as LLC or Inc. settles it — and are withheld until the record shows which; they were paid $17,591 in all. The money is in the campaign’s spending total above, and every itemised payment is public at the PDC.

Last checked 2026-10-21

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure reports · as of 2026-10-21 · 8 named payees shown

Money spent about this candidate by others

Independent expenditures and electioneering communications — money spent about this candidate by committees that are barred by law from coordinating with the campaign. It is not the candidate’s money and is not in the figures above. Spending for a candidate is not money from the candidate, and spending for and against are two facts, shown as two figures.

Spent supporting
stance filed as “for”
$1,813
Spent opposing
stance filed as “against” · not subtracted from the row above
none filed

Planned Parenthood Advocates Of Greater Washington for · $1,700
Fuse Votes for · $113

Source Public Disclosure Commission, C-6 independent expenditure and electioneering communication reports naming this candidate · as of 2026-10-21 · scale $1,813 = full width · key the candidate the spender named on the C-6, matched by PDC candidate id · caveat for and against are not netted

What this page will not compute

A candidate page is where a reader expects a verdict about the person. Each of these is a verdict the filings do not support.

No prediction.: Money is not a forecast. The better-funded candidate frequently loses, and this page shows who paid for a campaign, not who will win.
No net money.: Spending for and spending against a candidate are two facts. Subtracting one from the other manufactures a third that nobody reported.
No donor we cannot name by rule.: A private individual is named only when their own public conduct clears them; everyone else is aggregated by employer. The rule is applied at sync and again at render, and no page relaxes it.
No connected-records section.: A candidate is not a node in the entity graph. Their money is on their committee’s filings, which is where the record lives; this page is a reading of those filings, not a second record.
No record of office.: What someone says while running and how they vote once serving are separate questions on separate pages. Where this person also holds office, the methodology links their record.

Common questions

What office is Joe Burns running for?: County Commissioner, as filed with the Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle.
How much has Joe Burns raised?: $52,659 reported raised and $44,778 reported spent, from 144 reported contributors, as of the last filing we read. Figures change as reports are filed and amended.
What party is Joe Burns?: The filing states “DEMOCRATIC”. Washington ballots carry a party preference, not a membership, and this page says only what the filing says.
Who is spending money about Joe Burns?: Independent expenditures and electioneering communications total $1,813 supporting and $0 opposing, as two separate figures. The spenders are filed on the C-6 and are named in section 04 where the sync has carried them.

Answers are generated from the same filing fields as the sections above and emitted as FAQPage structured data, so a machine reader gets the identical text a person sees.

Cite this page

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“Joseph John Burns (Joe Burns),” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-10-21, accessed 2026-10-27. https://washingtonindependents.org/candidate/joseph-john-burns-joe-burns/

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Where this page comes from

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A filing, not a live balance: campaigns report on a schedule and amend afterwards. The figures are what had been filed when we last read the record (2026-10-21), and the PDC is authoritative where it disagrees.
Identity: the PDC filer id (BURNJ–284) — the one identifier the state issues a campaign. Two candidates sharing a name are two filer ids and two pages.
Money: C-3 contributions and C-4 expenditures reported by the campaign, 2026 cycle. Contributors are named only where the donor-naming rule clears them; the rest are aggregated by employer.
Outside money: C-6 independent expenditures and electioneering communications naming the candidate, by the spender’s filed stance. For and against are never netted.
Not a record of office: what someone says while running and how they vote once serving are separate questions on separate pages. This person also holds office: their page as an official.