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Michael Phillips

5857 E. Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas NV 89122

[email protected] · 702-668-8075

Lobbyist #7012 · 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.

Clark County Water Reclamation District

5875 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas 89122

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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.

Clark County Water Reclamation District

CLARK COUNTY WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT

Active · General Improvement Districts · formed 2006-12-06 · NV-ID 735458

Registered agent: .NOT REQUIRED

Officers on file (0):

No current officers on file.

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 B Revolving-door — drawing PERS pension Direct submit correction

This lobbyist's name matches a Nevada Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) recipient drawing $68,995/year as of FY2025 (across years: 2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024,2025). Citation: NRS 218H lobbyist disclosure of state employment; Olson 1965 captured-coalition framework.

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

Cross-reference of cf_expenditures (NV SOS) against the registered-lobbyist roster: $250 received from 1 candidate/committee account(s) across 1 payment(s).

PayerAmount#
MICHAEL GIBBONS$2501
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.

Clark County Water Reclamation District — 1 federal registrant(s)

Federal registrant firmClient name at LDAFilingsSource
MARCUS G. FAUST, PCCLARK COUNTY WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT1LDA 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

$2K

All Nevada filings, 2013–2026.

Contributions

18

After dedup of superseded reports.

Recipients

8

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
1NPDan GilliamDistrict Court Judge, District 8, Department 24 · CLARK COUNTY$7002
2DSteve SisolakGovernor · NV SOS$5001
3NPRomeo PerezDistrict Court Judge, District 8, Family Div, Department Z · CLARK COUNTY$3003
4MICHAEL GIBBONSCourt of Appeals, Seat 2 · NV SOS$2501
5NPHarmony LetiziaJustice of the Peace, Las Vegas Township, Department 3 · CLARK COUNTY$2501
6NEA Fund for Children and Public Education$1208
7DAaron FordAttorney General · NV SOS$1041
8DKate MarshallOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN$21
Full contribution log

Every contribution, newest first

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

DateRecipientTypeAmount
2026-06-18DAaron FordAttorney General · NV SOSMonetary Contribution$104
2022-03-02MICHAEL GIBBONSCourt of Appeals, Seat 2 · NV SOSMonetary Contribution$250
2022-01-27NPHarmony LetiziaJustice of the Peace, Las Vegas Township, Department 3 · CLARK COUNTYMonetary Contribution$250
2020-08-08NPDan GilliamDistrict Court Judge, District 8, Department 24 · CLARK COUNTYMonetary Contribution$500
2020-07-02NPRomeo PerezDistrict Court Judge, District 8, Family Div, Department Z · CLARK COUNTYIn Kind Written Commitment$100
2020-07-02NPRomeo PerezDistrict Court Judge, District 8, Family Div, Department Z · CLARK COUNTYMonetary Contribution$100
2020-07-02NPRomeo PerezDistrict Court Judge, District 8, Family Div, Department Z · CLARK COUNTYIn Kind Written Commitment$100
2020-03-30NPDan GilliamDistrict Court Judge, District 8, Department 24 · CLARK COUNTYMonetary Contribution$200
2018-09-12DSteve SisolakGovernor · NV SOSMonetary Contribution$500
2014-10-20DKate MarshallOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWNMonetary Contribution$2
2013-11-19NEA Fund for Children and Public EducationMonetary Contribution$10
2013-10-17NEA Fund for Children and Public EducationMonetary Contribution$10
2013-09-19NEA Fund for Children and Public EducationMonetary Contribution$10
2013-09-03NEA Fund for Children and Public EducationMonetary Contribution$10
2013-07-06NEA Fund for Children and Public EducationMonetary Contribution$5
2013-07-06NEA Fund for Children and Public EducationMonetary Contribution$10
2013-07-06NEA Fund for Children and Public EducationMonetary Contribution$30
2013-07-06NEA Fund for Children and Public EducationMonetary Contribution$35

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: DERBY, KS, Las Vegas, NV, Prescott, AZ, 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.

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