Registered lobbyist · Washington State
Mr. CHESTER L BALDWIN III
Mr. CHESTER L BALDWIN III is registered with the Public Disclosure Commission as a lobbyist through Public Affairs Consulting, LLC, with registrations on file for 2017–2020 covering 23 clients.
- registered 2017–2020
- 23 clients
- PDC agent 48
Source WA PDC lobbyist agent registrations · as of 2026-08-12
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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.
Public Affairs Consulting, LLC — the firm’s register, compensation and clients.
- Northwest Yacht Brokers Assn
- Wa Collectors Assn
- Delivery Express
- Inc.
- Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Washington
- Towing And Recovery Assn Of Wa
- Manufactured Housing Communities of WA
- POSaBit
- Inc
- Wa St Self Storage Assn
- Wa Apartment Assn
- Natl Assn Of Credit Mgmt
- Consolidated Bookkeeping & Management Services Inc
- Intl Council Of Shopping Centers
- Wa Assn Of Vehicle Subagents
- Sunrise Services Inc
- Govt Bldg Owners & Lessors Assn
- Wa St Martial Arts Assn
- Bldg Owners & Managers Assn Of King Co
- Habitat For Humanity Of Wa St
- Yakima Valley Landlords Assn
- Wa St Snowmobile Assn
- Family Wineries Of Wa St
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.
The bill numbers are in documents we have not parsed yet. Every month a lobbyist works, their firm files an L-2 report listing the bills. Those reports exist and are linked below — what is missing is our extraction of the bill lines, not the record itself.
Last checked 2026-08-12
Each link opens the firm’s own L-2 filings at the PDC for that year.
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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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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
- A contribution record matched to this person by name alone would be the join this site refuses — 1.4 million donor rows contain many people with the same name. Absent until a keyed join exists.
- Nothing here measures influence
- There is no public record of influence. There are records of registration and compensation, and the arrow from either to an outcome would be our argument, not a document.
Source WA PDC lobbyist agent registrations; L-2 report index · as of 2026-08-12 · agent id 48 — the identifier the PDC issued, which is also in this page's address