Paid

Craig Stevens

1700 Vegas Drive, Las Vegas NV 89106

Lobbyist #6978 · 83rd (2025) Nevada Legislative Session · official source

Clients

1 client 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.

Cox Communications

1700 Vegas Drive, Las Vegas 89106

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Nevada Secretary of State business filings

NVSOS records for 1 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.

Cox Communications

COX COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.

Withdrawn · Foreign Corporation · formed 2001-09-11 · NV-ID 426447

Registered agent: CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY*

Officers on file (4):

MICHAEL BOLOGNINI — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
PATRICK ESSER — President · ATLANTA, GA
MARIA FRIEDMAN — Treasurer · ATLANTA, GA
SHAUNA SULLIVAN MUHL — Secretary · ATLANTA, GA

Auditor research leads

4 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 B Revolving-door — drawing PERS pension Direct submit correction

This lobbyist's name matches a Nevada Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) recipient drawing $12,325/year as of FY2025 (across years: 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024,2025). ⚠ medium-collision risk; verify identity against state-employment record Citation: NRS 218H lobbyist disclosure of state employment; Olson 1965 captured-coalition framework.

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

NRS 218H disclosed expenditures: $3,500. Detected money flow: $17,250 (campaign-account payments received: $17,250; unambiguous personal political contributions: $0). Gap: $13,750. 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: $17,250 received from 7 candidate/committee account(s) across 9 payment(s).

Payer	Amount	#
Lawrence Brown III	$5,000	1
David Marlon	$5,000	2
Henderson Firefighters Political Action Committee	$3,000	2
Henderson Police Supervisor Association Political Action Committee	$2,500	1
Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 525 PAC	$1,000	1
Debra March	$500	1
James Ohrenschall	$250	1

Tier D Donor-as-state-contractor — clients are state vendors who contribute politically Direct submit correction

1 of this lobbyist's client(s) appear in Nevada state-vendor payment records (checkbook.nv.gov, FY 2019-2025) AND make political contributions. The pattern is the rent-seeking signal under Buchanan/Tullock 1962. Citation: NRS 333 / NRS 332 (state purchasing), NRS 294A.

Client / vendor name	State payments	Political contributions	Years
Cox Communications vendor: COX COMMUNICATIONS INC	$4,824,267	$1,680,927	7

NRS 218H disclosure

Disclosed lobbyist expenditures — $3,500.00 for 83rd Session

NRS 218H requires registered lobbyists to file monthly reports disclosing every gift, meal, entertainment, or other benefit provided to a Nevada legislator or staff member. The records below are sourced verbatim from the NV Legislature's official report.

Source: NV Legislature 83rd Session Lobbyist Expenditures Report · NRS Chapter 218H

Month	Description	Amount
May	Cable/Telecommunications Social Event	$1,000.00
May	Cinco De Mayo Social Event	$2,500.00

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.

Cox Communications — 5 federal registrant(s)

Federal registrant firm	Client name at LDA	Filings	Source
HARRIS & ASSOC, LESLIE	COX COMMUNICATIONS	1	LDA filing
MINTZ LEVIN COHN FERRIS GLOVSKY AND POPEO, P.C.	COX COMMUNICATIONS INC	1	LDA filing
THE WASHINGTON GROUP	COX COMMUNICATIONS	1	LDA filing
WILLIAMS AND JENSEN, PLLC	COX COMMUNICATIONS	1	LDA filing
GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS LLC	COX COMMUNICATIONS CALIFORNIA	1	LDA filing

Coalition cluster (Louvain community)

This lobbyist sits in a 46-member coalition cluster (61 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: Nevada Resort Association, Communities in Schools, NV Energy:

Christopher Anderson 6982, Esther Badiata 7026, Marie Baxter 7268, Ryan Bellows 6322, Eva Black 6229, Chloe Chism 6325, Dawn Christensen 6410, Clarissa Cota 7059, Dan Dark 7214, Caleb Dekay 7281, Rod Diridon 6495, John Drescher 6493 +33 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

$4K

All Nevada filings, 2024–2026.

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	DShondra Summers-ArmstrongCity of Las Vegas, City Council, Ward 5 · CITY OF LAS VEGAS	$3,000	1
2	DErica RothState Assembly, District 24 · WASHOE COUNTY	$1,000	1
3	DMichael NaftClark County Commissioner, District A · CLARK COUNTY	$103	1

Full contribution log

Every contribution, newest first

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

Date	Recipient	Type	Amount
2026-03-11	DErica RothState Assembly, District 24 · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$1,000
2024-12-18	DShondra Summers-ArmstrongCity of Las Vegas, City Council, Ward 5 · CITY OF LAS VEGAS	Monetary Contribution	$3,000
2024-01-31	DMichael NaftClark County Commissioner, District A · CLARK COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$103

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: Las Vegas, NV, las Vegas, 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.

Hearings

Exhibits filed at NELIS bill hearings

Records of 2 exhibits filed under this lobbyist's name in the Nevada Legislature's NELIS bill-hearing exhibits, across 1 bill. Each entry links to the original PDF document filed with the Legislature. Position labels (Support / Opposition / Neutral / Amendment / Presented) come from the exhibit naming convention used by NELIS staff.

Position	Document & organisation
AB509 · 2 exhibits on file
	Presentation · Cox	· PDF
Submitted	— · Cox Communication	· PDF

Source: NELIS — Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System. Match by tokenwise normalisation of submitter name vs lobbyist registration. Exhibits filed under a different name spelling won't appear here even if filed by this lobbyist.

Sources & references

Where this profile's information comes from

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Nevada Legislature lobbyist registry (83rd Session)

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