Paid

Andrew Diss

2500 E. 2nd St., Reno NV 89595

Lobbyist #7234 · 83rd (2025) Nevada Legislative Session · official source

Clients

3 clients represented in the 83rd Session

Each client below is a corporation, trade association, non-profit, or other organization that has registered this lobbyist as their advocate before the Nevada Legislature for the 2025 session. Click any client to see what they have spent on Nevada candidates and political committees.

Grand Sierra Resort & Casino

2500 East Second Street, Reno 89595

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Meruelo Gaming

2500 East Second Street, Reno 89595

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Sahara Las Vegas

2535 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas 89109

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Nevada Secretary of State business filings

NVSOS records for 2 of this lobbyist's clients

Per-client business-entity records sourced from the Nevada Secretary of State's nvsos_corporations registry, joined to this lobbyist's client roster by tokenwise-normalised name match. Includes corporation status, registered agent, formation date, and the current officer/director list as filed with the state.

Match is name-based — a client may correspond to multiple business filings (parent + subsidiary, foreign + domestic) or none at all if it is a federal entity, a political committee filed elsewhere, or a non-NV organisation. Entries with status Active are currently in good standing; Permanently Revoked, Dissolved, or Merged indicates the entity is no longer operational under that NV ID. Officer rosters are public records as of the most recent filing.

Meruelo Gaming

MERUELO GAMING LLC

Active · Domestic Limited-Liability Company · formed 2018-02-12 · NV-ID 1459543

Registered agent: PARACORP INCORPORATED*

Officers on file (1):

Alex Meruelo — Mmember · Reno, NV

Sahara Las Vegas

SAHARA LAS VEGAS CORP.

Active · Domestic Corporation · formed 1982-05-28 · NV-ID 184427

Registered agent: KEVIN M. HANRATTY, ESQ.

Officers on file (4):

DAVID LOWDEN — President · LAS VEGAS, NV
SUZANNE LOWDEN — Treasurer · LAS VEGAS, NV
SUZANNE LOWDEN — Secretary · LAS VEGAS, NV
PAUL LOWDEN — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV

Auditor research leads

3 detector flag(s) on file for this lobbyist

The Nevada Political Establishment auditor cross-references this lobbyist against every Tier A/B/C/D/E1 detector. Each flag below is a research lead, not a published claim — verify against authoritative records before treating as evidence of wrongdoing. Most flags reflect structural patterns the public has a right to see, not necessarily violations.

Methodology · All auditor findings

Tier E1 Disclosed-vs-actual money-flow gap Direct submit correction

NRS 218H disclosed expenditures: $0. Detected money flow: $5,805 (campaign-account payments received: $5,805; unambiguous personal political contributions: $0). Gap: $5,805. NRS 218H scope is gifts/benefits to legislators, not personal income — the gap is a transparency signal, not a violation per se.

Tier D Politician-paid — campaign accounts paid this lobbyist Direct submit correction

Cross-reference of cf_expenditures (NV SOS) against the registered-lobbyist roster: $5,805 received from 4 candidate/committee account(s) across 4 payment(s).

Payer	Amount	#
Building and Construction Trades Council of No NV COPE	$2,500	1
Andrew Diss	$1,805	1
LIUNA PAC	$1,000	1
William Horne	$500	1

Tier D Quid-pro-quo chain(s) — 2 pattern(s) detected Indirect submit correction

For each row: candidate's campaign paid this lobbyist, the lobbyist represents the client, the client contributed to the candidate, and (where shown) the candidate sponsored or voted-Yea on a bill the client took a position on. Each link is innocent in isolation; the bundled correlation is the signal. Citation: Stigler 1971, Olson 1965, NRS 281A.420 / 218H / 294A.

Candidate (R)	Client (C)	L paid	C → R	Bill / action

NRS 218H disclosure

Reported $0 in legislator gifts/benefits for the 83rd Session

The Nevada Legislature's official lobbyist-expenditure report shows this lobbyist filed monthly returns for the 83rd Session and reported no benefits provided to any legislator or staff member. Source: NV Legislature 83rd Session Lobbyist Expenditures Report.

Federal lobbying

U.S. Senate LDA filings for 1 of this lobbyist's clients

Federal Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) registrant + filing records sourced from lda.senate.gov, joined to this lobbyist's client roster by tokenwise-normalised name match. Shows the federal-side lobbying firms representing the same clients this lobbyist represents at the Nevada legislature.

Meruelo Gaming — 1 federal registrant(s)

Federal registrant firm	Client name at LDA	Filings	Source
BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP	MERUELO GAMING	1	LDA filing

Coalition cluster (Louvain community)

This lobbyist sits in a 15-member coalition cluster (49 client(s) in cluster)

Derived by Louvain community detection (Blondel et al. 2008) on the bipartite lobbyist-client representation graph — clusters are industries-as-observed, not pre-labeled. Other lobbyists in this same observed coalition · representative clients: Las Vegas Sands, Argentum Partners, Grand Sierra Resort & Casino:

Logan Cayton 7164, Mike Draper 6845, Tiffany East 6496, Paul Enos 6558, Terry Graves 6580, Therese Laxalt Robinson 6399, Andrew Mackay 6181, Bradley Mayer 7145, Jay Parmer 6740, Matthew Robinson 6973, Emma Rodriguez 6562, John Sande Iv 6823 +2 more

Personal political contributions

Their own giving

Contributions made personally under this lobbyist's first and last name in the Nevada Secretary of State campaign-finance dataset.

Total personally given

$11K

All Nevada filings, 2012–2024.

Contributions

After dedup of superseded reports.

Recipients

Distinct candidates, parties, or committees.

Top recipients

Who received their personal checks

Up to ten recipients of this lobbyist's personal contributions, ranked by total amount. Amounts are cumulative across all reporting years on file. Recipients can be candidates, parties, or political committees.

#	Recipient	Total	Contributions
1	Kathleen TaylorCity of Reno, City Council, Ward 1 · CITY OF RENO	$5,000	1
2	NPAndrew DissBoard of Regents, District 10 · WASHOE COUNTY	$4,500	2
3	DSteve SisolakGovernor · NV SOS	$500	1
4	DElizabeth SmithWashoe County School Board Trustee, District D · WASHOE COUNTY	$400	2
5	Truckee Meadows Firefighters Association	$250	1
6	DAlexis HillWashoe County Commissioner, District 1 · WASHOE COUNTY	$250	1
7	IndJay KennyCity of Reno, City Council, Ward 2 · CITY OF RENO	$200	1
8	DJ.T. CreedonState Assembly, District 10 · CLARK COUNTY	$101	1
9	Nevadans for Background Checks	$70	1

Full contribution log

Every contribution, newest first

11 individual contributions on file in the Nevada Secretary of State campaign-finance dataset, deduplicated.

Date	Recipient	Type	Amount
2024-09-19	DAlexis HillWashoe County Commissioner, District 1 · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$250
2023-12-06	Kathleen TaylorCity of Reno, City Council, Ward 1 · CITY OF RENO	Monetary Contribution	$5,000
2023-11-09	DElizabeth SmithWashoe County School Board Trustee, District D · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$200
2022-08-16	IndJay KennyCity of Reno, City Council, Ward 2 · CITY OF RENO	Monetary Contribution	$200
2022-02-23	DElizabeth SmithWashoe County School Board Trustee, District D · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$200
2021-12-20	DSteve SisolakGovernor · NV SOS	Monetary Contribution	$500
2020-03-25	NPAndrew DissBoard of Regents, District 10 · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$2,000
2019-09-15	NPAndrew DissBoard of Regents, District 10 · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$2,500
2015-12-02	Nevadans for Background Checks	In Kind Contribution	$70
2014-03-19	DJ.T. CreedonState Assembly, District 10 · CLARK COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$101
2012-10-13	Truckee Meadows Firefighters Association	Monetary Contribution	$250

Ambiguity flag: the Nevada SOS dataset contains more than one contributor with this first/last name. The numbers and recipient list above sum across all matching name records and may include contributions from another individual sharing the same name. Cities on file for this name: RENO, NV, Reno, NV. Treat as a research lead, not a definitive total.

This number reflects what the lobbyist has personally given to candidates, parties, and political committees in Nevada — not what their clients have given. The two channels frequently overlap: a paid advocate who also writes a personal check to the legislator they're lobbying is using both kinds of access at once.

Sources & references

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Nevada Legislature lobbyist registry (83rd Session)

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