Political firm · composite — 1 spelling of the payee name, merged by us

CHERRY CREEK MEDIA

Disclosed payments to the one filed spelling of this payee name total $25,964 from 11 candidate committees and 3 political committees, 2021–2026. In 7 cases a candidate and an independent-expenditure committee in the same race both paid it; section 03 lists each. A shared vendor is lawful; this page documents disclosed payments and nothing else.

$25,964

disclosed payments

to 1 spelling of the payee name, merged by us · as filed, 2021–2026

paying committees

11 candidate, 3 political

same-race overlaps

lawful; each listed in section 03 with its gap in days

spelling merged

the size of the identity join behind every figure here; section 04

Sources Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp) · independent-expenditure filings (67cp-h962), data.wa.gov · as of 2026-09-05 · retrieved 2026-09-05 · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues · tier composite — joined by us on a stated key

Who paid this firm

Every paying committee, largest disclosed total first. The total is what that committee reported paying to 1 spelling of the payee name, merged by us; where a committee has a page here, its name links to it.

Committees that reported paying CHERRY CREEK MEDIA, by disclosed total
Paid by	Kind	Cycles	Disclosed payments
We Want Accountability PAC	political committee	2021	$4,080
Maria Iñiguez (Maria Iniguez) — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, WENATCHEE SD 246	candidate committee	2021	$3,905
Scott E. Rodgers — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, KENNEWICK SD 017	candidate committee	2021	$2,420
John H Trumbo (TRUMBO JOHN H) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF KENNEWICK	candidate committee	2021	$2,180
Loren Anderson — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF KENNEWICK	candidate committee	2021	$2,070
William D (Bill) McKay (Bill McKay) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF KENNEWICK	candidate committee	2021	$1,940
Erin Steinert — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, KENNEWICK SD 017	candidate committee	2021	$1,740
Matt Van Bogart — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, WENATCHEE SD 246	candidate committee	2021	$1,728
Gretl Crawford — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF KENNEWICK	candidate committee	2021	$1,700
Donald W Britain (Don Britain) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF KENNEWICK	candidate committee	2021	$1,030
BENTON CO REPUB CENT COMM NON EXEMP (BCRP)	political committee	2022	$1,000
Michelle M. Andres (Michelle Andres) — SCHOOL DIRECTOR, PASCO SD 001	candidate committee	2021	$961
Ginger (Eleanor) Wireman (Ginger Wireman) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF RICHLAND	candidate committee	2021	$610
BENTON CO REPUB CENT COMM NON EXEMP (BCRP)	political committee	2021	$600

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), 2021–2026 · as of 2026-09-05 · rows 14 · retrieved 2026-09-05 · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues · caveat a payment routed through this firm to a subvendor appears here under this firm, as filed

Payments by cycle

Disclosed payments to 1 spelling of the payee name, merged by us, by the election year the paying committee filed under. One bar scale; the figure beside each bar is the figure. Odd years are local elections and even years state and federal, so consecutive years are not comparable.

2021

local cycle

$24,964
2022

state and federal cycle

$1,000

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election_year as filed · as of 2026-09-05 · scale $24,964 = full width · key payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues

Same race, both sides of the wall

A candidate’s committee and a committee making independent expenditures in that candidate’s race may not coordinate; both may hire the same printer. Each row is a race where both paid this firm, with the days between the last candidate payment and the first independent expenditure, and whether that gap falls inside the twelve-month window in which WAC 390-05-210 presumes coordination unless rebutted. Overlap is lawful. This table is a list of coincidences in public filings, not a finding.

Races in which a candidate committee and an independent-expenditure committee both paid this firm
Year	Race	Candidate client	IE committee client	Gap in days	In the window	Shared officer
2021	CITY COUNCIL MEMBER / CITY OF KENNEWICK	William D (Bill) McKay (Bill McKay) $1,940	We Want Accountability PAC $4,080	44	yes	CHARLOTTE BENJAMIN on both registrations
2021	CITY COUNCIL MEMBER / CITY OF KENNEWICK	Donald W Britain (Don Britain) $1,030	We Want Accountability PAC $4,080	5	yes	none — both registrations read
2021	CITY COUNCIL MEMBER / CITY OF KENNEWICK	Gretl Crawford $1,700	We Want Accountability PAC $4,080	6	yes	none — both registrations read
2021	CITY COUNCIL MEMBER / CITY OF KENNEWICK	Loren Anderson $2,070	We Want Accountability PAC $4,080	34	yes	CHARLOTTE BENJAMIN on both registrations
2021	SCHOOL DIRECTOR / KENNEWICK SD 017	Scott E. Rodgers $2,420	We Want Accountability PAC $4,080	6	yes	none — both registrations read
2021	SCHOOL DIRECTOR / KENNEWICK SD 017	Erin Steinert $1,740	We Want Accountability PAC $4,080	5	yes	none — both registrations read
2021	CITY COUNCIL MEMBER / CITY OF KENNEWICK	John H Trumbo (TRUMBO JOHN H) $2,180	We Want Accountability PAC $4,080	4	yes	none — both registrations read

Source Same-race overlap layer over PDC expenditure (tijg-9zyp) and independent-expenditure (67cp-h962) filings; committee registrations for the officer column · as of 2026-09-01 · rows 7 · n 7 inside the twelve-month window · key race = the candidate’s office and jurisdiction as filed; the IE committee’s target is that candidate · caveat overlap is lawful and is not a finding of coordination

How these records were merged

The PDC issues no vendor identifier. Every figure on this page is the sum of rows whose payee name normalises to one string: CHERRY CREEK MEDIA. That is our join, not the state’s, and its size is 1 spelling of the payee name, merged by us.

The key: payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues
Spellings merged: CHERRY CREEK MEDIA 14 payer-year rows
What a wrong merge looks like: Two different firms whose names differ only in a suffix or punctuation would be one row here, and their totals would be added. Two spellings of one firm that differ in a word would be two rows, and this page would be short a spelling. Both errors are ours; neither is in the filings. Corrections are taken at the address in the cite block.
Why this is not a graph node: The entity graph’s vendor nodes are one per disclosed identity and are never merged by name. This profile is the opposite decision, made for reading, and it is kept out of the graph so a merge of ours never becomes an edge.

Source Payee names as filed in PDC expenditure reports, normalised by build-vendors.js · as of 2026-09-05 · n 1 spellings over 14 payer-year rows · tier composite — joined by us on the key above

What this page will not compute

A firm page is where a reader expects a verdict about the firm. Each of these would be one, and none follows from payee rows on a form.

No finding of coordination.: Overlap is lawful. A candidate and an independent-expenditure committee hiring the same firm is two contracts, and the twelve-month window in section 03 is a presumption the law lets either party rebut. The table lists the coincidence and stops.
No share of a race.: What fraction of a race’s spending went through this firm would need every committee’s every payment, resolved to the same merge. We do not have that, and a share computed from part of it would be wrong with confidence.
No “network”.: Clients who share a vendor are not connected to each other by that fact. A diagram of them would draw relationships the filings do not record.
No company facts.: This page describes payments to spellings of a name. It does not say what the firm is, who owns it, or what it did for the money; the expenditure description field is not reliable enough to summarise.
No connected-records section.: A merged profile is not a node in the entity graph and draws no edges. The graph’s vendor nodes are one per disclosed identity; this page is deliberately not one of them.

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“CHERRY CREEK MEDIA — Washington political firm profile,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-05, accessed 2026-09-20. https://washingtonindependents.org/firms/cherry-creek-media/

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Why this firm has a page: Appears in the same-race overlap layer. Profiles exist for the firms in the independent-expenditures and coordination analysis, not for every payee; a listing is a description of disclosed payments.
Identity: payee name as filed, upper-cased, punctuation and corporate suffixes (LLC, Inc, Co…) stripped — a normalised string, not an identifier the PDC issues This profile merges 1 spelling of the payee name, merged by us; section 04 lists them.
Payments: PDC expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election years 2021–2026, summed per paying committee. Amounts as filed; subvendor pass-throughs appear under the reported payee.
Overlaps: the same-race overlap layer over the expenditure and independent-expenditure filings (67cp-h962), as of 2026-09-01. Gap in days is from the last candidate payment to the first independent expenditure; the window is WAC 390-05-210’s twelve months. A shared officer is named only where both committees’ registrations were read.
Retrieved: expenditures 2026-09-05 · independent expenditures 2026-09-05, from data.wa.gov, per the import log.