Lobbying · Washington State · Employer of lobbyists
WA DEFENDER ASSN
WA DEFENDER ASSN paid $311K to lobby Washington state government over 2016–2026, through 6 lobbying firms.
$311K
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 2026-08-07 · 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.
| Year | Paid | Share of their largest year |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $11,084 | |
| 2025 | $37,668 | |
| 2024 | $33,266 | |
| 2023 | $46,013 | |
| 2022 | $44,332 | |
| 2021 | $35,364 | |
| 2020 | $27,434 | |
| 2019 | $27,470 | |
| 2018 | $16,528 | |
| 2017 | $19,515 | |
| 2016 | $12,194 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-07 · 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.
| Firm | Reported |
|---|---|
| Sermonti Public Affairs | $123K |
| Neil Beaver | $94,600 |
| EVERGREEN PUBLIC AFFAIRS LLC | $41,198 |
| CHRISTIE HEDMAN | $27,166 |
| Kari Reardon | $13,000 |
| ALEX HUR | $11,650 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-07 · 6 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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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 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.
Cite this page
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“WA DEFENDER ASSN,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/wa-defender-assn/
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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