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UFCW 3000

UFCW 3000 paid $1.5M to lobby Washington state government over 2016–2026, through 10 lobbying firms.

$1.5M

reported paid to lobby

Reported by the lobbying firms this organisation engaged, naming it as the source of the money. It is not this organisation’s own account of what it spent — that is a separate filing, and the two need not agree.

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 2016–2026, money paid

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What they 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 Paid Share of their largest year
2026 $67,722
2025 $186K
2024 $156K
2023 $109K
2022 $156K
2021 $187K
2020 $188K
2019 $193K
2018 $113K
2017 $43,132
2016 $65,876

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 11 years on record

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Firms they engaged

Every lobbying firm that named this organisation as a source of its compensation, and how much it reported.

Lobbying firms engaged
Firm Reported
RNJ Strategies $933K
Samantha Grad $221K
JOHNSON ARLEDGE STRATEGIES $106K
Rise Consulting $60,000
The Arledge Group $58,500
Dustin Lambro $35,964
SARAH I CHERIN $18,776
Lily Wilson-Codega $16,000
Karsten Wise $10,373
ABBIE ZULOCK $4,690

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-10-20 · 10 listed

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Connected records

Everything below is a link some document draws for us. Nothing here is our inference. Grouped by how well the record supports it, always in this order, never sorted by interest.

This record’s page in the entity graph: /employers/pdc-employer-17005/

On the record · 17

One document states the relation in its own words.

Nothing on file

Bills this client’s lobbyists reported working on are not in the graph — the L-2 bill lines are not loaded, which is not the same as no lobbying having occurred. No contribution edge reaches an employer: money a client gives to a committee is filed by the client under its own PDC contributor identity, a different record.

Checked 2026-10-20

Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-10-20 · edges 17 filed, 0 composite, 0 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 organisation spent
This is compensation paid to registered lobbying firms. Advertising, an in-house employee who lobbies as part of a wider job, and campaign contributions are separate filings and are not added in.
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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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

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