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Peter Stanton

615 Riverside Suite C, Reno NV 89503

[email protected]

Lobbyist #7126 · 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.

Walker Basin Conservancy

WALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY

Active · Domestic Nonprofit Corporation · formed 2014-09-16 · NV-ID 1261821

Registered agent: CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY*

Officers on file (8):
  • Bruce Aylward — Director · Reno, NV
  • Sudeep Chandra — President · Reno, NV
  • Staci Emm — Director · Reno, NV
  • Micheline Fairbank — Director · Reno, NV
  • Kathryn Landreth — Treasurer · RENO, NV
  • Jim Lawrence — Director · Reno, NV
  • Vic Redding — Director · Reno, NV
  • John P Rice — Secretary · RENO, 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 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 nameState paymentsPolitical contributionsYears
Walker Basin Conservancy
vendor: WALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY
$4,599,349$05
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.

Walker Basin Conservancy — 1 federal registrant(s)

Federal registrant firmClient name at LDAFilingsSource
R&R PARTNERS, INC.WALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY1LDA filing
Coalition cluster (Louvain community)

This lobbyist sits in a 20-member coalition cluster (30 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: Southern Nevada Building Trades Union, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Turo:

Michael Alonso 6813, Jennifer Berthiaume 6523, Michael Brown 6815, Alex Bybee 6795, Regan Comis 6768, Bobby Ernaut 6814, Pete Ernaut 6765, Vinson Guthreau 6503, Rich Harvey 6820, Amy Hyne Sutherland 6531, Aaron Ibarra 7325, Karlos Lasane 7307 +7 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

$250

All Nevada filings, 2025–2025.

Contributions

1

After dedup of superseded reports.

Recipients

1

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
1DHoward Watts IIIState Assembly, District 15 · CLARK COUNTY$2501
Full contribution log

Every contribution, newest first

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

DateRecipientTypeAmount
2025-11-03DHoward Watts IIIState Assembly, District 15 · CLARK COUNTYMonetary Contribution$250

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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