Lobbying · Washington State · Lobbying firm
Courtney Blatz
Courtney Blatz reported $188K in lobbying compensation over 2017–2020, from 33 clients.
$188K
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 2026-08-07 · 2017–2020, 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.
| Year | Compensation | Share of their largest year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $40,775 | |
| 2019 | $91,404 | |
| 2018 | $47,078 | |
| 2017 | $9,098 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-07 · 4 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.
| Registered lobbyist | Years registered |
|---|---|
| Courtney Blatz | 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-07 · 33 listed
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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
- 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.
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“Courtney Blatz,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/courtney-blatz/
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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