CHESTER BALDWIN

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What they were 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.

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 11 years on record

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Who paid them

Every organisation that this firm named as a source of its compensation. Self-funded filings — the firm reporting its own money — are excluded.

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 22 listed

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Connected records

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This record’s page in the entity graph: /lobbyists/pdc-lobbyist-17358/

On the record · 8

One document states the relation in its own words.

• REGISTERED FOR · 2025

  Family Wineries Of Wa St

  L-1 registration 63471 — Family Wineries Of Wa St · as of 2025-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2026

  Family Wineries Of Wa St

  L-1 registration 63471 — Family Wineries Of Wa St · as of 2026-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2025

  Manufactured Housing Communities of WA

  L-1 registration 18198 — Manufactured Housing Communities of WA · as of 2025-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2026

  Manufactured Housing Communities of WA

  L-1 registration 18198 — Manufactured Housing Communities of WA · as of 2026-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2025

  Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Washington

  L-1 registration 41062 — Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Washington · as of 2025-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2026

  Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Washington

  L-1 registration 41062 — Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Washington · as of 2026-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2025

  Wa Apartment Assn

  L-1 registration 18204 — Wa Apartment Assn · as of 2025-01-01

• REGISTERED FOR · 2026

  Wa Apartment Assn

  L-1 registration 18204 — Wa Apartment Assn · as of 2026-01-01

Nothing on file

Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-10-20 · edges 8 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 firm earned

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Whose number this is

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“CHESTER BALDWIN,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-10-20, accessed 2026-10-24. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/chester-baldwin/

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Where this page comes from

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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