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.
Non-Paid
Richard Dragon
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.
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.
Nevada Dental Association
NEVADA DENTAL ASSOCIATION
Registered agent: Michele Reeder
Officers on file (7):
- Aimee Abittan — Director · Carson City, NV
- Tina Brandon Abbatangelo — Director · Carson City, NV
- Perry Francis — Treasurer · Sparks, NV
- Marianna Kacyra — Director · Carson City, NV
- Patrick Silvaroli — Director · Reno, NV
- Sheronda Strider-Barraza — President · North Las Vegas, NV
- Scott Sutter — Director · Carson City, NV
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.
NRS 218H disclosed expenditures: $0. Detected money flow: $12,397 (campaign-account payments received: $4,372; unambiguous personal political contributions: $8,025). Gap: $12,397. NRS 218H scope is gifts/benefits to legislators, not personal income — the gap is a transparency signal, not a violation per se.
Cross-reference of cf_expenditures (NV SOS) against the registered-lobbyist roster: $4,372 received from 2 candidate/committee account(s) across 4 payment(s).
| Payer | Amount | # |
|---|---|---|
| Nevada Dental Association PAC | $4,172 | 3 |
| Becky Harris | $200 | 1 |
For each row: candidate's campaign paid this lobbyist, the lobbyist represents the client, the client contributed to the candidate, and (where shown) the candidate sponsored or voted-Yea on a bill the client took a position on. Each link is innocent in isolation; the bundled correlation is the signal. Citation: Stigler 1971, Olson 1965, NRS 281A.420 / 218H / 294A.
| Candidate (R) | Client (C) | L paid | C → R | Bill / action |
|---|
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada Dental Association vendor: NEVADA DENTAL FOUNDATION | $248,365 | $135,382 | 3 |
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.
This lobbyist sits in a 7-member coalition cluster (10 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 Dental Association, Nevada Police Union, Academica Nevada:
Edward Ableser 6403, Spencer Flanders 6655, Daniel Gordon 6574, Ricky Gourrier 6224, Paul Klein 6179, James Mortimore 6743
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
$8K
All Nevada filings, 2014–2022.
Contributions
8
After dedup of superseded reports.
Recipients
4
Distinct candidates, parties, or committees.
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 | Nevada Dental Association PAC | $7,375 | 5 |
| 2 | RHeidi GansertOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN | $250 | 1 |
| 3 | NPBecky HarrisOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN | $200 | 1 |
| 4 | RBen KieckheferNevada Gaming Commission · NV SOS | $200 | 1 |
Every contribution, newest first
8 individual contributions on file in the Nevada Secretary of State campaign-finance dataset, deduplicated.
| Date | Recipient | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-20 | Nevada Dental Association PAC | Monetary Contribution | $1,625 |
| 2020-10-29 | RHeidi GansertOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN | Monetary Contribution | $250 |
| 2019-01-13 | Nevada Dental Association PAC | Monetary Contribution | $1,500 |
| 2017-12-15 | NPBecky HarrisOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN | Monetary Contribution | $200 |
| 2017-11-28 | RBen KieckheferNevada Gaming Commission · NV SOS | Monetary Contribution | $200 |
| 2016-12-06 | Nevada Dental Association PAC | Monetary Contribution | $1,250 |
| 2015-02-12 | Nevada Dental Association PAC | Monetary Contribution | $1,500 |
| 2014-02-12 | Nevada Dental Association PAC | Monetary Contribution | $1,500 |
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