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Registered lobbyist · Washington State

Cody Arledge

Cody Arledge is registered with the Public Disclosure Commission as a lobbyist through The Arledge Group, with registrations on file for 2017–2024 covering 28 clients.

  • registered 2017–2024
  • 28 clients
  • PDC agent 1531

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.

The Arledge Group — the firm’s register, compensation and clients.

  • Renewable Northwest
  • Wa State Convention Center Public Facilities Dist
  • Amalgamated Transit Union Leg Council
  • City Of Seattle
  • Conservation NW
  • Transportation Choices Coalition
  • Civil Survival Project
  • Service Employees Intl Union Dist 925
  • Washington State Data Center Competitiveness Coalition
  • Futurewise
  • Samish Indian Nation
  • United Food & Comm Wrkrs # 21
  • City of Tumwater
  • General Motors Llc
  • Cypress Creek Renewables
  • Public Defender Association
  • UAW Local 4121
  • Northwest Resources II Inc
  • Motorola Solutions Inc
  • Assn Of Alcoholism & Addictions Programs
  • Sheet Metal Workers Local 66
  • Emergent BioSolutions
  • Northwest Regional Council of SMART
  • Google LLC and its Affiliates
  • MedImpact Healthcare Systems Inc.
  • Washington Filmworks
  • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 46
  • Skokomish Indian Tribe

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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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 1531 — the identifier the PDC issued, which is also in this page's address