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Columbia Policy Advisors

Columbia Policy Advisors reported $932K in lobbying compensation over 2025–2026, from 13 clients.

$932K

reported in compensation

Reported by this firm to the Public Disclosure Commission as compensation received for lobbying.

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 2025–2026, money received

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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.

Reported lobbying compensation by year
Year Compensation Share of their largest year
2026 $404K
2025 $529K

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 2 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.

Clients
Client Reported
SNOHOMISH CO $143K
CLARK COUNTY $113K
Whatcom Co $100K
Skagit County $98,000
Benton County Commissioners $84,000
Lewis County $70,000
Evergreen Forest Stewards $60,000
City of Battle Ground $56,238
Island County $56,000
San Juan County $56,000
City of Ellensburg $50,470
Clallam Economic Alliance $26,040
North Olympic Legislative Alliance $16,275
Registered lobbyists
Registered lobbyist Years registered
Eric Johnson 2025, 2026
Josh Weiss 2025, 2026

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 13 listed

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Connected records

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Filed · 26

One document states the relation in its own words.

Source Entity graph, synced from the pipeline · as of 2026-08-12 · Bills lobbied on are not in the graph yet — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded.

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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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

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
This is reported lobbying compensation. Other work the firm does for the same clients is not lobbying and is not reported here.
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.

Cite this page

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“Columbia Policy Advisors,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-29. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/columbia-policy-advisors/

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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.

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