Lobbying · Washington State · Employer of lobbyists
Washington State Labor Council
Washington State Labor Council paid $1.7M to lobby Washington state government over 2016–2026, through 24 lobbying firms.
$1.7M
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 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 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 | $99,566 | |
| 2025 | $193K | |
| 2024 | $215K | |
| 2023 | $233K | |
| 2022 | $128K | |
| 2021 | $177K | |
| 2020 | $149K | |
| 2019 | $128K | |
| 2018 | $212K | |
| 2017 | $61,489 | |
| 2016 | $79,475 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 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 |
|---|---|
| JOSEPH A KENDO | $493K |
| SYBILL HYPPOLITE | $298K |
| John Traynor | $298K |
| LARRY BROWN | $122K |
| JEFFREY JOHNSON | $105K |
| Eric Gonzalez Alfaro | $87,793 |
| LYNNE DODSON | $51,091 |
| Carissa Larsen | $48,240 |
| Christoph Mair | $19,760 |
| Kira Munson | $19,760 |
| Two Degrees Consulting, LLC | $18,000 |
| David Benjamin Mendoza | $15,332 |
| Sierra Turner | $15,312 |
| Laurel Poplack | $14,616 |
| VLADIMIR GUTMAN-BRITTEN | $13,450 |
| Ben Brown | $11,200 |
| Carolyn Brotherton | $8,190 |
| TERESA MOSQUEDA | $7,599 |
| Paragon Strategic Partners LLC | $7,500 |
| Ilyas Abukar | $7,224 |
| Nickeia Hunter | $5,984 |
| Graciela Nunez | $5,200 |
| SARAH KOHOUT | $3,840 |
| Monica Yu | $2,160 |
Source WA Public Disclosure Commission lobbying reports · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · 24 listed
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Connected records
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This page is keyed on a normalised name, not on an identifier the state issued: the PDC’s employer ids and its funding-source ids never agree, so the lobbying importer could not carry one. The graph’s client nodes are keyed on the employer id, and joining the two on the name is the join this site refuses. No edge is drawn here until a document carries both. 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 2026-08-12
Source one query on the edge table, grouped by tier · as of 2026-08-12 · 39 days old · edges 0 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built
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What this page will not compute
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- 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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“Washington State Labor Council,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-09-20. https://washingtonindependents.org/lobbying/washington-state-labor-council/
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Where this page comes from
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- 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