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Michael McDonald

840 S Rancho 4-334, Las Vegas NV 89106

[email protected] · 702-810-9001

Lobbyist #7400 · 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.

Nevada Republican Party

840 S. Rancho 4-334, Las Vegas 89106

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Auditor research leads

2 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: $10,371 (campaign-account payments received: $10,371; unambiguous personal political contributions: $0). Gap: $10,371. 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: $10,371 received from 4 candidate/committee account(s) across 11 payment(s).

PayerAmount#
Nevada Republican Party Central Committee$4,9474
Daniel Schwartz$3,2004
Chris Giunchigliani$1,5582
James Vega$6671
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.

Coalition cluster (Louvain community)

This lobbyist sits in a 5-member coalition cluster (2 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 Republican Party, Nevada Federation of Republican Woman:

Brianna Cowan 6834, Jim Degraffenreid 6960, Barb Hawn 6858, Joshua Skaggs 6646

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

$14K

All Nevada filings, 2011–2024.

Contributions

29

After dedup of superseded reports.

Recipients

11

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.

#RecipientTotalContributions
1Nevada Republican Party Central Committee$3,8014
2Morning in Nevada PAC$3,0002
3Washoe County Republican Central Committee$2,7809
4Clark County Republican Central Committee$1,9906
5The Alpha PAC$1,1001
6RJames VegaConstable, North Las Vegas Township · CLARK COUNTY$6671
7NPJim DeGraffenreidGardnerville Ranchos General Improvement District · DOUGLAS COUNTY$5001
8Lyon County Republican Central Committee$2002
9RJames MarchantOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN$1011
10RIrina HansenOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN$1011

Showing top 10 of 11 recipients (full list below).

Full contribution log

Every contribution, newest first

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

DateRecipientTypeAmount
2024-10-19NPJim DeGraffenreidGardnerville Ranchos General Improvement District · DOUGLAS COUNTYMonetary Contribution$500
2023-02-04Lyon County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$100
2023-01-05RIrina HansenOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWNMonetary Contribution$101
2020-09-17The Alpha PACMonetary Contribution$1,100
2019-09-17Morning in Nevada PACMonetary Contribution$1,000
2019-09-12Morning in Nevada PACMonetary Contribution$2,000
2019-02-02Lyon County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$100
2018-10-18RJames VegaConstable, North Las Vegas Township · CLARK COUNTYIn Kind Contribution$667
2018-10-08RJames MarchantOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWNMonetary Contribution$101
2018-04-03Nevada Republican Party Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$15
2018-03-01RJared FisherGovernor · NV SOSMonetary Contribution$25
2017-09-21Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$120
2017-06-22Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$800
2017-03-28Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$100
2017-02-28Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$255
2016-02-01Clark County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$1,200
2015-07-02Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$1,000
2015-03-31Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$80
2015-03-31Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$85
2015-03-11Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$170
2015-01-30Nevada Republican Party Central CommitteeIn Kind Contribution$3,621
2013-02-16Clark County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$125
2012-02-27Clark County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$125
2012-02-27Clark County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$250
2012-02-27Clark County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$250
2012-02-14Clark County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$40
2012-02-13Washoe County Republican Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$170
2011-11-09Nevada Republican Party Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$100
2011-04-21Nevada Republican Party Central CommitteeMonetary Contribution$65

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, 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 1 exhibit 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.

PositionDocument & organisation
AB597 · 1 exhibit on file
OppositionTestimony · presented by Joshua Skaggs · 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.

Surname cluster

Other registered lobbyists with the surname "McDonald"

Cross-firm surname match — different employers. A shared surname does not by itself imply a family relationship — common names will produce coincidental matches. We surface this as a research lead, not as a claim.

Sources & references

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