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Nicole Mertz

10250 Wells Fargo Road, Reno NV 89508

[email protected] · 775-544-7294

Lobbyist #6419 · 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 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.

Retired Public Employees of Nevada

RETIRED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES OF NEVADA

Active · Domestic Nonprofit Coop Corp w/o Stock · formed 1977-09-23 · NV-ID 178261

Registered agent: MARTIN BIBB

Officers on file (4):
  • LYNNE BALLATORE — Director · Dayton, NV
  • RITA EVASOVIC — Treasurer · YERINGTON, NV
  • SHERLYN FACKRELL — Secretary · Panaca, NV
  • RUBEN MURILLO — President · Henderson, NV
Auditor research leads

1 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 $79,933/year as of FY2025 (across years: 2023,2024,2025). Citation: NRS 218H lobbyist disclosure of state employment; Olson 1965 captured-coalition framework.

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 4-member coalition cluster (1 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: Retired Public Employees of Nevada:

Kerry Armanasco 6387, Teresa Laird 6388, Earl Spurgeon 6448

Personal political contributions

No contributions found in the Nevada Secretary of State campaign-finance dataset under this lobbyist's first and last name. They may give under a different name spelling, may give exclusively to federal races, or may not personally contribute.

Sources & references

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