Political firm · composite — 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us

Pierce County Republican Party

Disclosed payments to 2 filed spellings of this payee name total $337,548 from 22 candidate committees and 18 political committees, 2021–2026. In 1 case 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.

$337,548

disclosed payments

to 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us · as filed, 2021–2026

40

paying committees

22 candidate, 18 political

1

same-race overlaps

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

2

spellings 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

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Who paid this firm

Every paying committee, largest disclosed total first. The total is what that committee reported paying to 2 spellings of the payee name, merged by us; where a committee has a page here, its name links to it.

Committees that reported paying Pierce County Republican Party, by disclosed total
Paid by Kind Cycles Disclosed payments
MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE CO AFFORDABLE HOUSING COUNCIL political committee 2025 $90,400
Senate Republican Campaign Committee (SRCC) political committee 2022 $45,000
WA ST REPUB PARTY EXEMPT political committee 2022 $32,000
CRUVER AMY A (Amy Cruver) — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2024 $20,000
WA Wins Sponsored by The Leadership Council political committee 2025 $18,000
Pierce County Republican Party Non-Exempt political committee 2025 $16,000
The Leadership Council political committee 2025 $15,000
The Leadership Council political committee 2024 $13,000
Dave J Morell (Dave Morell) — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2022 $10,000
WASHINGTON REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE political committee 2025 $10,000
Spencer W. Hutchins (Spencer Hutchins) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $9,200
Jesse L. Young — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 26 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $7,880
Mark A. Herr (Mark Herr) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 28 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $6,759
Travis S. Couture (Travis Couture) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 35 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $5,000
Greg Cheney — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 18 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $4,000
31ST DISTRICT REPUBLICANS political committee 2021 $3,500
WA ST REPUB PARTY EXEMPT political committee 2024 $3,500
Mark A. Herr (Mark Herr) — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF LAKEWOOD candidate committee 2025 $3,000
Simon Peter Serrano (Pete Serrano) — ATTORNEY GENERAL, State of Washington candidate committee 2024 $2,500
25TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE political committee 2021 $2,500
Kelly M Chambers (Kelly Chambers) — COUNTY EXECUTIVE, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2024 $2,000
Kitsap County Republican Party political committee 2021 $2,000
Angela Ishmael — CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF BONNEY LAKE candidate committee 2021 $1,741
Terry Wise — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2025 $1,660
Chris Gildon — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 25 – SENATE candidate committee 2024 $1,500
Suzanne Annette Schmidt (Suzanne Schmidt) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 04 – HOUSE candidate committee 2024 $1,500
Friends of Puyallup political committee 2022 $1,282
King County Republican Central Committee Non-Exempt political committee 2026 $1,239
Susanna Lee Keilman (Susanna Keilman) — STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEG DISTRICT 28 – HOUSE candidate committee 2022 $1,053
Paul M.Herrera (Paul Herrera) — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2024 $1,000
David G Reichert (Dave Reichert) — GOVERNOR, State of Washington candidate committee 2024 $1,000
WA STATE TREE FRUIT ASSOCIATION PAC political committee 2025 $1,000
WA ST REPUB PARTY EXEMPT political committee 2023 $1,000
Deryl S McCarty (Deryl McCarty) — COUNTY AUDITOR, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2022 $729
Marty McClendon — COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2022 $673
WASHINGTON STATE COUNCIL OF POLICE POLITICAL SUPPORT political committee 2021 $500
Michelle Valdez (Michelle Caldier) — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 26 – SENATE candidate committee 2025 $274
King County Republican Central Committee Exempt political committee 2021 $104
Jesse L. Young — STATE SENATOR, LEG DISTRICT 26 – SENATE candidate committee 2022 $54
KEEL KENT D (Kent D. Keel) — COUNTY ASSESSOR-TREASURER, PIERCE CO candidate committee 2024 $0

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), 2021–2026 · as of 2026-09-05 · rows 40 · 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

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Payments by cycle

Disclosed payments to 2 spellings 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.

  1. 2021

    local cycle

    $10,345
  2. 2022

    state and federal cycle

    $90,791
  3. 2023

    local cycle

    $1,000
  4. 2024

    state and federal cycle

    $78,839
  5. 2025

    local cycle

    $155,334
  6. 2026

    state and federal cycle

    $1,239

Source Public Disclosure Commission expenditure filings (tijg-9zyp), election_year as filed · as of 2026-09-05 · scale $155,334 = 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

03

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
2025 COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER / PIERCE CO Terry Wise $1,660 WASHINGTON REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $10,000 70 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 1 · n 1 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

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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: PIERCE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY. That is our join, not the state’s, and its size is 2 spellings 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
  • Pierce County Republican Party 32 payer-year rows
  • PIERCE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY 8 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 2 spellings over 40 payer-year rows · tier composite — joined by us on the key above

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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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“Pierce County Republican Party — Washington political firm profile,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-05, accessed 2026-09-21. https://washingtonindependents.org/firms/pierce-county-republican-party/

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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.

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 2 spellings 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.