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Lodestar Strategic LLC
Lodestar Strategic LLC reported $3.7M in lobbying compensation over 2019–2026, from 42 clients.
$3.7M
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 · 2019–2026, 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.
| Year | Compensation | Share of their largest year |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $400K | |
| 2025 | $778K | |
| 2024 | $790K | |
| 2023 | $813K | |
| 2022 | $447K | |
| 2021 | $221K | |
| 2020 | $188K | |
| 2019 | $101K |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-07 · 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Blake Baldwin | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Brian Bonlender | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Cassi Ciganek | 2024, 2025 |
| Jasmine Vasavada | 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Molly Keenan | 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Mr. Brian Bonlender | 2019, 2020 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-07 · 42 listed
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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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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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“Lodestar Strategic LLC,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/lodestar-strategic-llc/
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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