Lobbying · Washington State · Lobbying firm
Sermonti Public Affairs
Sermonti Public Affairs reported $2M in lobbying compensation over 2017–2026, from 49 clients.
$2M
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 · 39 days old · 2017–2026, 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 | $100K | |
| 2025 | $332K | |
| 2024 | $231K | |
| 2023 | $249K | |
| 2022 | $261K | |
| 2021 | $258K | |
| 2020 | $182K | |
| 2019 | $289K | |
| 2018 | $113K | |
| 2017 | $11,500 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Adan Espino | 2020 |
| Adán Espino Jr | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Charles Adkins | 2019, 2020 |
| Mr. Adán Espino Jr. | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Mr. Tony Sermonti | 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Tony Sermonti | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 49 listed
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Connected records
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On the record · 32
One document states the relation in its own words.
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REGISTERED FOR · year 2025
Air Methods Corporation
L-1 registration 122069 — Air Methods Corporation · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · year 2026
Air Methods Corporation
L-1 registration 122069 — Air Methods Corporation · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · year 2025
American Kratom Association
L-1 registration 1062148 — American Kratom Association · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · year 2026
American Kratom Association
L-1 registration 1062148 — American Kratom Association · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · year 2025
Appraisers Coalition Of Wa
L-1 registration 122068 — Appraisers Coalition Of Wa · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · year 2026
Appraisers Coalition Of Wa
L-1 registration 122068 — Appraisers Coalition Of Wa · as of 2026-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · year 2025
GeoToll, Inc.
L-1 registration 123001 — GeoToll, Inc. · as of 2025-01-01
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REGISTERED FOR · year 2026
GeoToll, Inc.
L-1 registration 123001 — GeoToll, Inc. · as of 2026-01-01
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Same detail on two records — not a relationship · 2
Two records agreeing on one field. An observation about paperwork — each row says what it does not claim, and none can be used as a step toward anything.
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SHARES ATTRIBUTE(address)
A shared address is a shared building, law firm or mail service far more often than it is a shared operation. This row goes no further than the two records that state it.
L-1 registration 114896 — Peninsula Metropolitan Park District · as of 2025-01-01
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SHARES ATTRIBUTE(address)
A shared address is a shared building, law firm or mail service far more often than it is a shared operation. This row goes no further than the two records that state it.
L-1 registration 114896 — Peninsula Metropolitan Park District · as of 2026-01-01
Nothing on file
Bills lobbied on are not in the graph yet — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded. No adjacency observation appears here: no shared address or agent record has been read into an edge for this firm, which is not the same as none existing.
Checked 2026-08-12
Source one query on the edge table, grouped by tier · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · edges 32 filed, 0 composite, 2 adjacency · how edges are built
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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.
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“Sermonti Public Affairs,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-20. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/sermonti-public-affairs/
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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