WashingtonIndependents.org

Lobbying · Washington State · Lobbying firm

PRINCIPLED SOLUTIONS

PRINCIPLED SOLUTIONS reported $2.3M in lobbying compensation over 2016–2026, from 18 clients.

$2.3M

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 · 2016–2026, money received

01

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 $67,500
2025 $328K
2024 $388K
2023 $382K
2022 $354K
2021 $250K
2020 $192K
2019 $188K
2018 $84,000
2017 $7,000
2016 $51,250

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 11 years on record

02

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
HIGHLINE GRAIN LLC $505K
Swisher International Inc. $296K
Bio Energy (Washington), LLC $244K
Fortinet, Inc. $234K
Dell Technologies Inc. c/o 50 to 1 LLC $220K
NORTHSTAR CONTRACTING GROUP LP $204K
Accenture LLP $180K
Heritage Distilling Company $128K
Dell Technologies Inc. c/o Vantage Compliance $85,000
Workday, Inc. $67,500
PURSE SEINE VESSEL OWNERS ASSN $44,000
Wonderschool, Inc. $31,500
Cigar Assn of WA $14,000
EASTERN WA GATEWAY RAILROAD CO $9,000
IMG, Inc. $9,000
BIO ENERGY WA / INDUSTRIAL POWER GENERATING CO $8,250
BLPI Railroad, LLC. $6,000
CENTRAL WA GRAIN GROWERS INC $5,000
Registered lobbyists
Registered lobbyist Years registered
THOMAS DOOLEY 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
THOMAS S DOOLEY 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 18 listed

04

Connected records

Every link in this section is an edge in the entity graph: a row in one table, carrying the document that states it. Grouped by how well the record supports it.

Filed · 22

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.

03

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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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

This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.

“PRINCIPLED SOLUTIONS,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-14. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/principled-solutions/

04

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