Lobbying · Washington State · Employer of lobbyists

WA STATE ASSN OF COUNTIES (WSAC)

WA STATE ASSN OF COUNTIES (WSAC) paid $2.4M to lobby Washington state government over 2016–2026, through 21 lobbying firms.

$2.4M

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.

Reported lobbying compensation by year
Year Paid Share of their largest year
2026 $111K
2025 $398K
2024 $319K
2023 $345K
2022 $254K
2021 $219K
2020 $279K
2019 $253K
2018 $108K
2017 $35,913
2016 $68,651

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.

Lobbying firms engaged
Firm Reported
Banks Consulting Group $706K
Mike Hoover $475K
Brynn Brady $385K
Paul Jewell $158K
Jaime Bodden $106K
Propolis Communications $100K
AXEL SWANSON $93,200
Curtis Steinhauer $63,993
JENNIFER ZIEGLER $48,000
ERIC B JOHNSON $39,229
ABBY G MOORE $37,500
Arbutus Consulting LLC $35,184
JANE WALL $35,053
MELLANI MCALEENAN $34,463
Juliana Roe $28,697
Travis Dutton $16,120
JOSH WEISS $7,979
Derek Young $7,706
GARY ROWE $5,903
LAURA BERG $5,274
BRAD BANKS $3,412

Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-07 · 21 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 None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.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 STATE ASSN OF COUNTIES (WSAC),” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/wa-state-assn-of-counties-wsac/

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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