What office is Tom Dent running for?

State Representative, as filed with the Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle.

How much has Tom Dent raised?

$80,540 reported raised and $10,784 reported spent, from 270 reported contributors, as of the last filing we read. Figures change as reports are filed and amended.

What party is Tom Dent?

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

Who is spending money about Tom Dent?

Independent expenditures and electioneering communications total $0 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 DENTT 837

Tom Dent

Tom Dent is running for State Representative in Leg District 13 – House 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.

RRepublicanState RepresentativeLeg District 13 – House

Filed as: Thomas E Dent legal name on the declaration; the ballot name is above
Office, as filed: STATE REPRESENTATIVE · LEG DISTRICT 13 – HOUSE
Party preference: as stated on the filing: REPUBLICAN

Source Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings (C-1) and reports (C-3, C-4) · as of 2026-09-12 · 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.

$80,540

raised

$10,784

spent

$69,755

cash on hand

As of the most recent report, not today.

270

contributors

$298

average contribution

Total divided by reported contributors.

Source Washington Public Disclosure Commission, candidate C-3 contribution and C-4 expenditure filings · as of 2026-09-12 · contributors 270 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
WASHINGTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COUNCIL	$2,400	TUMWATER
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS PAC	$2,400	OLYMPIA
Association of Wash Aerial Applicators	$2,400	Ellensburg
WASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION PAC	$2,400	OLYMPIA
WA STATE TREE FRUIT ASSOCIATION PAC	$2,400	OLYMPIA
Snoqualmie Tribe	$2,400	Snoqualmie
McCaw Bruce	$2,400	Bellevue
PUGET SOUND ENERGY	$2,400	BELLEVUE
SABEY CORPORATION	$2,000	WELLPINIT
MPC Investment Fund Inc	$1,500	San Antonio
STCU	$1,200	Spokance
Washington Oil Marketers	$1,200	Port Orchard
WASHINGTON WHEAT PAC	$1,200	RITZILLE
Washington Electric Cooperative PAC	$1,200	Olympia
POTATO PAC	$1,200	PASCO
Aristotle International Inc	$1,200	Washington

Individual contributors, grouped by stated employer
Employer stated by contributors	Contributors	Amount
Bumble Inc	1	$2,400
No employer stated	1	$2,400

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.

0 of 16 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 2026-09-12

Source Public Disclosure Commission contribution reports · as of 2026-09-12 · 16 named, 2 aggregated

Where the money went

Largest reported expenditures. The category is the code the campaign chose when filing, not our classification of it.

Largest reported expenditures by this campaign
Vendor	Amount	Category as filed
COLUMBIA BASIN RODEO ASSOC	$2,000	Other advertising
Thomas E Dent	$1,136	Other
BOSS PAT	$1,100	Inkind contribution
Connoisseur Media	$1,000	Other advertising
MICHAELLE BOETGER GRAPHIC	$971	Other advertising
PACIFIC COAST	$650	Other advertising
SourceOne LLC	$543	Other advertising
KDRM	$450	Other advertising
Coulee City Rodeo Association	$400	Other advertising
MOSES LAKE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE	$250	Charity
PayPal	$248	Bank and payment processing charges
Mcafee Web	$217	Utilities, phone, and other overhead costs
CHUDOMELKA ROBERT	$0	Contribution Refunds
IVORY GARF	$0	Contribution Refunds
LAEL GERALD M	$0	Contribution Refunds
BONKE LES	$0	Contribution Refunds
IVORY MAXINE	$0	Contribution Refunds
WASHINGTON STATE AUTO DEALERS	$0	Contribution Refunds
WEST COAST SEAFOOD PROCESSORS PAC	$0	Contribution Refunds

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure reports · as of 2026-09-12 · top 19 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.

No independent expenditure or electioneering communication in the PDC feed names this candidate. That is what the feed held when the record was last read. It is not a finding that none was made: C-6 reports are filed within days of the spending, and the record is re-read on a schedule.

Last checked 2026-09-12

Source Public Disclosure Commission, C-6 independent expenditure and electioneering communication reports naming this candidate · as of 2026-09-12 · 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 Tom Dent running for?: State Representative, as filed with the Public Disclosure Commission for the 2026 cycle.
How much has Tom Dent raised?: $80,540 reported raised and $10,784 reported spent, from 270 reported contributors, as of the last filing we read. Figures change as reports are filed and amended.
What party is Tom Dent?: The filing states “REPUBLICAN”. Washington ballots carry a party preference, not a membership, and this page says only what the filing says.
Who is spending money about Tom Dent?: Independent expenditures and electioneering communications total $0 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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“Thomas E Dent (Tom Dent),” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-12, accessed 2026-09-22. https://washingtonindependents.org/candidate/thomas-e-dent-tom-dent/

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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.

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 (2026-09-12), and the PDC is authoritative where it disagrees.
Identity: the PDC filer id (DENTT 837) — 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.