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.
Paid
Ryan Leonard
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.
Southwest Gas
SOUTHWEST GAS HOLDINGS, INC.
Registered agent: C T CORPORATION SYSTEM**
Officers on file (13):
- E. CONLEY — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
- ANDREW EVANS — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
- JUSTIN FORSBERG — Treasurer · LAS VEGAS, NV
- KAREN HALLER — President · LAS VEGAS, NV
- KAREN HALLER — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
- JANE LEWIS-RAYMOND — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
- HENRY LINGINFELTER — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
- ANNE MARIUCCI — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
+5 more officers on file
SOUTHWEST GAS CORPORATION
Registered agent: C T CORPORATION SYSTEM**
Officers on file (7):
- JUSTIN BROWN — President · LAS VEGAS, NV
- E. RENAE CONLEY — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
- JUSTIN FORSBERG — Treasurer · LAS VEGAS, NV
- JUSTIN FORSBERG — Director · Las Vegas, NV
- KAREN HALLER — Director · LAS VEGAS, NV
- KAREN HALLER — Other · Las Vegas, NV
- CATHERINE MAZZEO — Secretary · LAS VEGAS, 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: $43,957 (campaign-account payments received: $43,928; unambiguous personal political contributions: $29). Gap: $43,957. 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: $43,928 received from 24 candidate/committee account(s) across 45 payment(s).
| Payer | Amount | # |
|---|---|---|
| Lesley Cohen | $10,895 | 7 |
| Elaine Marzola | $7,430 | 5 |
| Assembly Democratic Caucus | $3,414 | 4 |
| Daniele Monroe-Moreno | $3,000 | 2 |
| Sandra Jauregui | $3,000 | 2 |
| Shea Backus | $2,500 | 2 |
| Connie Munk | $2,000 | 2 |
| Rochelle Nguyen | $2,000 | 1 |
+16 additional payers — 45 total payments.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elaine Marzola | Southwest Gas | $7,430 | $32,500 | SB417 yea · Amendment |
| Daniele Monroe-Moreno | Southwest Gas | $3,000 | $32,000 | AB93, AB117, AB123 (sponsored) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Gas vendor: SOUTHWEST GAS CORP | $44,298,214 | $2,369,902 | 7 |
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.
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.
Southwest Gas — 1 federal registrant(s)
| Federal registrant firm | Client name at LDA | Filings | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASCADE ASSOCIATES | SOUTHWEST GAS CORPORATION | 1 | LDA filing |
This lobbyist sits in a 64-member coalition cluster (99 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: Southwest Gas, Retail Association of Nevada, Howard Hughes Holdings, Inc.:
Ana Adkins 6498, Omar Alvarez 7180, Greg Bailor 6891, Stephanie Balistere 6271, Ryan Beaman 6907, William Brewer 6190, Jolie Brislin 7372, Kate Cantrell 6783, Kimberly Coats 7104, Nancy Coleman Chavez 6349, Bob Conrad 6871, Kate Cotter 7189 +51 more
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
$29
All Nevada filings, 2022–2022.
Contributions
1
After dedup of superseded reports.
Recipients
1
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 | DLesley CohenOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN | $29 | 1 |
Every contribution, newest first
1 individual contribution on file in the Nevada Secretary of State campaign-finance dataset, deduplicated.
| Date | Recipient | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-09 | DLesley CohenOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN | Monetary Contribution | $29 |
Other registered lobbyists with the surname "Leonard"
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.
- Linda Leonard Non-Paid
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