Thomas Mcbride

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Who pays

Each client is a separate registration. The subject line a lobbyist writes on the L-1 — what they were hired to work on, in their words — is in the registration and not yet in our extract, so it is not printed here.

Mcbride Public Affairs Llc* — the firm’s register, compensation and clients.

Source PDC L-1 registration statements, one per client, via the firm · as of 2026-09-08 · 47 days old · n 97 registrations · absent compensation per client, and the registration’s subject line

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Bills they were paid to work on

Read this before the table. The monthly report asks for bill numbers. It does not ask which side the lobbyist was on. A bill appearing here would mean they reported lobbying on it — nothing more. It would not mean they supported it, opposed it, or that their client’s interest points the way you would guess. Where a position exists it comes from a hearing sign-in sheet, is marked as such, and is in 03.

• 2016 · 10 reports
• 2017 · 12 reports
• 2018 · 12 reports
• 2019 · 12 reports
• 2020 · 12 reports
• 2021 · 12 reports
• 2022 · 12 reports
• 2023 · 12 reports
• 2024 · 12 reports
• 2025 · 12 reports
• 2026 · 6 reports

Each link opens the firm’s own L-2 filings at the PDC for that year.

Source PDC L-2 monthly reports, bill schedule (indexed, not parsed) · as of 2026-09-08 · 47 days old · absent the bill lines — the L-2 schedule is not yet extracted

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Testimony, and copies of it

Hearing sign-in sheets record a position — pro, con or other — against a name and an organisation. Attributing a sign-in to this lobbyist is a join, and the key is printed so you can disagree with it.

Join key

sign-in name ("Surname, Given", reversed and normalised) = agent name (normalised) AND sign-in organisation ∈ {the agent's firm} ∪ {clients the agent was registered for in the hearing year} tier: composite

Source Legislature committee sign-in sheets (CSI), joined to PDC L-1 registrations · as of 2026-09-08 · 47 days old · key sign-in name ("Surname, Given", reversed and normalised) = agent name (normalised) AND sign-in organisation ∈ {the agent's firm} ∪ {clients the agent was registered for in the hearing year} · n 0 attributed · 0 refused · absent written testimony and hearing recordings — not in the record we hold

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Contributions to candidates and committees

Two different things belong on this page, and they are separated because the evidence behind them is different. Merging them would be the single easiest way to make this page lie.

A. What they reported themselves · tier: filed

$476,061 in political contributions is reported on the contributions line of Mcbride Public Affairs Llc* monthly reports, for the years this lobbyist was registered with it. The L-2 is filed by the firm, so this is the firm’s figure and not one person’s giving.

B. Contribution records that match their name · tier: composite

Sources A: PDC L-2 monthly reports, contributions line, filed by the firm. B: PDC C-3 contributor rows filed by the receiving committees · as of 2026-09-08 · 47 days old · tier A is filed — the filer’s own sworn figure; B is composite and refused for want of a key · absent the per-recipient rows behind A, which are in the report body; and B entirely — the registration carries no ZIP or employer to join on

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Everything else they had to disclose

The monthly report asks for more than compensation and bills. These are the remaining schedules, as Mcbride Public Affairs Llc* filed them for the years this lobbyist was registered with the firm — the L-2 is a firm filing, so these are the firm’s figures and not one person’s. A schedule filed at zero prints as “none reported”, because an empty schedule is a disclosure too.

Entertainment and hosting

$23,970 — L-2 schedule B. The form requires naming the officials present above a per-person threshold; those names are in the report body and are not in this feed.

Personal expenses

$34,750 — travel, lodging during session and the lobbyist’s own costs, as reported on the monthly summary.

Advertising and political advertising

$444 — the two advertising lines added, which the form keeps apart from entertainment and from contributions.

Other lobbying expenses

$256,549 — the form’s catch-all line, which it does not break down further.

What the filer reported in total

$810,821 in total expenses. The lines above come to $315,713 of it; the remaining $495,108 sits in categories the summary feed does not break out, so it is shown as the gap rather than distributed across the lines we can name.

Gifts to officials

not in the summary feed — the gift schedule is completed in the body of the L-2 and the feed carries no column for it. Reading it means parsing the report itself, which we have not done.

Family employed by the state

not in the summary feed — lobbyists must disclose immediate family employed by the state or holding elective office. Same document, same reason: it is in the report body, not the summary.

Filing record

124 monthly reports indexed for the firm across 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 — filed on time or late is not yet read from the index.

Commission actions

not loaded — the PDC enforcement docket is not in the record we hold; a closed matter, when loaded, is stated with its resolution and is not evidence of anything ongoing.

Sources PDC L-2 monthly reports, summary schedules · the PDC enforcement docket · as of 2026-09-08 · 47 days old · filer the firm, Mcbride Public Affairs Llc* — the L-2 is filed by the firm, not by the individual lobbyist · n 11 filer-years summed · absent gifts to officials and family employed by the state — both live in the report body, which is indexed and not parsed; the enforcement docket is not loaded

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What this page cannot tell you

Washington discloses that lobbying happened and what it cost. It does not disclose the lobbying. This section is on every lobbyist page, unchanged. It is not about this lobbyist.

No meetings are recorded.

Who they met, when, and for how long is not reported by anyone. There is no visitor log for the Legislature.

No content is recorded.

What they asked for, what language they proposed, what they traded away — none of it is disclosed. Written testimony, where it exists, is the only place a lobbyist’s actual ask appears in their own words.

Amendments have no authors.

Language a lobbyist may have written can become law without their name appearing anywhere. We cannot trace it and we do not guess.

Grassroots and issue advertising sit elsewhere.

A client running an ad campaign on the same bill reports it — if at all — on a different form, under a different entity. That spending is not in any compensation figure.

Nothing here measures influence.

We publish no win rate, no access score, no proximity ranking. A lobbyist who reported thirty bills and won nothing looks identical on this page to one who wrote the budget.

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Connected records

Everything below is a link some document draws for us. Nothing here is our inference. Grouped by how well the record supports it, always in this order, never sorted by interest.

This record’s page in the entity graph: /lobbyists/pdc-agent-691/

On the record · 86

One document states the relation in its own words.

• REGISTERED FOR · 2025 · through Mcbride Public Affairs Llc*

  Albemarle Corporation

  L-1 registration 96893 — Albemarle Corporation · as of 2025-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2026 · through Mcbride Public Affairs Llc*

  Albemarle Corporation

  L-1 registration 96893 — Albemarle Corporation · as of 2026-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2025 · through Mcbride Public Affairs Llc*

  AlR Distribution USA, Inc.

  L-1 registration 103892 — AlR Distribution USA, Inc. · as of 2025-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2026 · through Mcbride Public Affairs Llc*

  AlR Distribution USA, Inc.

  L-1 registration 103892 — AlR Distribution USA, Inc. · as of 2026-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2025 · through Mcbride Public Affairs Llc*

  Amgen Inc

  L-1 registration 19208 — Amgen Inc · as of 2025-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2026 · through Mcbride Public Affairs Llc*

  Amgen Inc

  L-1 registration 19208 — Amgen Inc · as of 2026-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2025 · through Mcbride Public Affairs Llc*

  Association for Consumer Debt Relief (thru MultiState Associates LLC)

  L-1 registration 111862 — Association for Consumer Debt Relief (thru MultiState Associates LLC) · as of 2025-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2026 · through Mcbride Public Affairs Llc*

  Association for Consumer Debt Relief (thru MultiState Associates LLC)

  L-1 registration 111862 — Association for Consumer Debt Relief (thru MultiState Associates LLC) · as of 2026-01-01

Nothing on file

Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-09-08 · 47 days old · edges 86 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

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“Thomas Mcbride,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-08, accessed 2026-10-25. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/agent-thomas-mcbride-691/

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Where this page comes from

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

Registration — PDC L-1, one per client.

Who this lobbyist is registered to lobby for, and through which firm. The registration’s subject line is in the filing and not yet in our extract, so it is not printed.

Compensation — filed by the firm.

Reported on the firm’s monthly L-2 for all its agents together. It appears on the firm’s page and is never apportioned to a person.

Bills — the L-2 bill schedule.

Indexed and linked; not yet parsed. When it is, a bill listed means it was reported, and no position is implied.

Positions — only from a hearing sign-in sheet.

Pro, con and other are the three boxes on that form; we do not interpret “other”. A sign-in is attributed only on the printed composite key, and refusals are counted.

Contributions — kept in two blocks.

Self-reported L-2 rows are filed evidence. C-3 contributor rows are joined by a printed key and marked composite; near-matches are listed as unmatched rather than resolved on judgement. Delivered contributions stay attributed to the client.

Empty schedules — published as “none reported” rather than omitted

so that the absence of a gift is distinguishable from the absence of a form. Schedules we have not read say so.