Lobbying · Washington State · Employer of lobbyists
ASSN OF WA CITIES
ASSN OF WA CITIES paid $331K to lobby Washington state government over 2016–2026, through 15 lobbying firms.
$331K
reported paid to lobby
Reported by the lobbying firms this organisation engaged, naming it as the source of the money. It is not this organisation’s own account of what it spent — that is a separate filing, and the two need not agree.
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 2016–2026, money paid
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What they paid, by year
Lobbying is reported monthly and totalled here by calendar year. A year with no row is a year with no reported compensation, not a year we have not read.
| Year | Paid | Share of their largest year |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $12,315 | |
| 2025 | $49,411 | |
| 2024 | $16,399 | |
| 2023 | $26,034 | |
| 2022 | $41,652 | |
| 2021 | $94,627 | |
| 2020 | $53,790 | |
| 2019 | $17,014 | |
| 2018 | $11,252 | |
| 2017 | $2,986 | |
| 2016 | $5,635 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 11 years on record
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Firms they engaged
Every lobbying firm that named this organisation as a source of its compensation, and how much it reported.
| Firm | Reported |
|---|---|
| CARL SCHROEDER | $123K |
| CANDICE N BOCK | $54,750 |
| Logan M. Bahr | $37,465 |
| GORDON THOMAS HONEYWELL GOV AFFAIRS | $33,000 |
| Propolis Communications | $25,000 |
| Brandy DeLange | $12,164 |
| Derrick Nunnally | $9,715 |
| VICTORIA LINCOLN | $8,961 |
| Sharon M Swanson | $8,230 |
| PETER KING | $6,360 |
| Steven Ellis | $5,077 |
| Lindsey Hueer | $3,726 |
| JANE WALL | $1,735 |
| DAVID B WILLIAMS | $1,486 |
| Deanna Dawson | $506 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 15 listed
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Connected records
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REGISTERED · 2025 · through Candice N Bock
L-1 registration 18248 — Assn Of Wa Cities · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED · 2026 · through Candice N Bock
L-1 registration 18248 — Assn Of Wa Cities · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED · 2025
L-1 registration 18248 — Assn Of Wa Cities · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED · 2026
L-1 registration 18248 — Assn Of Wa Cities · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED · 2025
L-1 registration 19574 — Assn Of Wa Cities · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED · 2026
L-1 registration 19574 — Assn Of Wa Cities · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED · 2025 · through Carl Schroeder
L-1 registration 19574 — Assn Of Wa Cities · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED · 2026 · through Carl Schroeder
L-1 registration 19574 — Assn Of Wa Cities · as of 2026-01-01
Nothing on file
Bills this client’s lobbyists reported working on are not in the graph — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded, which is not the same as no lobbying having occurred. No contribution edge reaches an employer: money a client gives to a committee is filed by the client under its own PDC contributor identity, a different record.
Checked 2026-10-20
Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-10-20 · edges 24 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built
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What this page will not compute
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- What this money bought
- Compensation is what was paid, not what was achieved. The record does not connect a payment to a bill, a vote or an outcome, and we will not infer one — a firm retained all session may have lost every argument it made.
- Who was lobbied
- Washington requires lobbyists to report what they were paid and by whom. It does not require them to report which legislators they spoke to, so nothing here names an officeholder.
- Everything this organisation spent
- This is compensation paid to registered lobbying firms. Advertising, an in-house employee who lobbies as part of a wider job, and campaign contributions are separate filings and are not added in.
- Whose number this is
- Every figure on this page comes from the lobbying firm’s own report naming its funding source. Employers file separately, and the two accounts need not agree. Where they differ we show the firm’s, because that is the filing that itemises by source.
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- WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist compensation (L2 reports)
- https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists
- WA Public Disclosure Commission — lobbyist employment registrations
- https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/lobbyists
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