Jim Kainber

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Who pays

Lobbying compensation is reported by the firm, not the person: the clients below registered with the firm this lobbyist works through, and the money is on the firm’s page. Attributing a share of it to one person would be arithmetic no filing states.

Jim Kainber — the firm’s register, compensation and clients.

• Ameresco
• Inc.
• Community Homes (nonprofit-board meeting) NP

Source WA PDC L-1 registrations, via the firm · as of 2026-08-12

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Bills they were paid to work on

The L-2 monthly report lists them. We hold the reports; we do not yet parse the bill lines inside them.

• 2026 · 1 report

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

No meetings are recorded

Washington does not require lobbyists to log who they met. There is no calendar to publish.

No content is recorded

What was said in any conversation is not on file anywhere. The record is that someone was paid to talk about a bill — never what they said or whether it worked.

Testimony

Hearing sign-in sheets record stated positions, and they are not in our pipeline yet. Absent, not zero.

Contributions in their own name

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Nothing here measures influence

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