Her employer collects tax dollars. They also fund her campaign. She votes on the budget that pays them both.
Tracy Brown-May represents Assembly District 42 — a suburban-southwest Las Vegas seat covering Spring Valley, Mountain's Edge, and Enterprise. In her 2024–2025 fundraising cycle she raised $600,170.74 across 486 contributions from 319 distinct donors. Roughly 83% came from PACs, corporations, and LLCs. Roughly 26% came from outside Nevada — California, Colorado, Illinois, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia.
That is unremarkable. Nevada Assembly campaigns routinely run on out-of-state PAC money. What is remarkable is the specific donor pattern, and what those donors get back from the votes she takes.
The pattern in one sentence
Tracy Brown-May is employed by an entity that receives public dollars from contracts and programs she votes on; that entity and its industry peers also fund her campaign; she has not recused from votes that affect them.
The money
Top 20 donors to the Brown-May 2024–2025 campaign, sourced from the Nevada Secretary of State Aurora bulk export (candidate ID 15940). The list is dominated by gaming, healthcare/Big Pharma, real-estate, unions, and out-of-state individual mega-donors:
| # | Donor | Location | Total | Gifts | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MGM Resorts International | Las Vegas, NV | $17,500 | 4 | Strip casino conglomerate |
| 2 | HCA Nevada Good Government PAC | Las Vegas / Henderson | $15,000 | 4 | Hospital Corporation of America |
| 3 | John Cannito | Las Vegas, NV | $15,000 | 2 | Las Vegas attorney |
| 4 | Boyd Gaming Corporation | Las Vegas, NV | $14,000 | 5 | Strip casino conglomerate |
| 5 | Nevada Realtors PAC | Reno, NV | $14,000 | 8 | Real-estate industry PAC |
| 6 | Citizens for Justice Trust | Carson City, NV | $13,500 | 4 | NV Justice Association (trial lawyers) |
| 7 | Marc Christensen | Orem, UT | $10,000 | 3 | Out-of-state individual |
| 8 | PhRMA | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 2 | Big Pharma trade group |
| 9 | AFSCME | Las Vegas, NV | $10,000 | 2 | Public-employee union |
| 10 | Southwest Gas | Las Vegas, NV | $10,000 | 5 | Regulated utility |
| 11 | Nevada Gold Mines LLC | Elko, NV | $9,000 | 4 | Mining corporation |
| 12 | Nevada HealthPAC | Reno, NV | $7,500 | 4 | Healthcare-industry PAC |
| 13 | Healthy Nevada PAC | Las Vegas, NV | $5,000 | 1 | Healthcare-industry PAC |
| 14 | United Health Group | Englewood, CO | $5,000 | 2 | Out-of-state health insurer |
| 15 | Progressive Turnout Project | Evanston, IL | $5,000 | 2 | National progressive PAC (out-of-state) |
| 16 | Karla Jurvetson | Los Altos, CA | $5,000 | 1 | Out-of-state progressive mega-donor |
| 17 | POET LLC | Sioux Falls, SD | $5,000 | 1 | Ethanol (out-of-state) |
| 18 | AMR HOLDCO Inc. | Greenwood Village, CO | $5,000 | 1 | American Medical Response (out-of-state ambulance) |
| 19 | Las Vegas Paving Corp. | Las Vegas, NV | $5,000 | 2 | Strip-area construction contractor |
| 20 | Lisa Cannito | Las Vegas, NV | $5,000 | 1 | Las Vegas (Cannito family) |
Source: NV SOS Aurora campaign-finance bulk export, campaignfinance_cntrbt_64049_043026114945, filtered to candidateid='15940', contribution_date between 2024-01-01 and 2025-12-31. Multi-entity donors aggregated.
By industry
- Big Pharma + corporate healthcare — $62,000 (PhRMA, HCA, United Health, Nevada HealthPAC, Healthy Nevada PAC, AMR Holdco). Brown-May chairs the Assembly Health and Human Services Committee.
- Strip casinos / gaming — $48,000 (MGM, Boyd, and affiliates). AD-42 does not contain the Strip.
- Public-employee + private unions — $44,106 (AFSCME, SEIU 1107, Teamsters 357).
- Real-estate / construction — $39,000 (NV Realtors PAC, Summerlin developers, Las Vegas Paving).
- Utilities — $17,000 (Southwest Gas, Nevada Power Co.).
- Mining — $12,500 (Nevada Gold Mines and affiliates).
- Out-of-state — $154,774 (25.8% of total) from CA, CO, IL, SD, UT, VA.
- From individuals giving to a candidate they live near — $102,933 (17.1%).
The votes that followed
Of the bills Brown-May has voted on in the 83rd Session (2025), her voting pattern matched committee positions held by her donors at 99.1% party-line consistency. She voted Yea on every state-employee-benefit, pension-revision, and union-friendly bill on the floor calendar. She voted Nay on six bills total — complete record at NPE.
She sponsored:
- AB202 — Provisions related to managed-care insurer dispute-resolution. (Big Pharma + healthcare donor stack: $62,000.)
- AB107 — Removal of certain background-check requirements for foster homes. (AMR Holdco — ambulance / foster-care logistics — $5,000.)
The employer question
Brown-May's day job is in foster care and family services. Her employer receives public dollars from Nevada's Medicaid managed-care system, which is — in part — administered under statute she has voted on and sponsorships she has carried. We are documenting the specific employer-name, employer-contract-value, and dates of relevant votes; that work is in progress and will be published with full citations when complete.
Why this matters
NRS 281A.420 requires a public officer to disclose conflicts of interest and abstain from acting on a matter in which a private commitment "would be materially affected by the action." Disclosure-only without abstention is the predominant Carson City practice. It is also where the public record stops being self-explanatory and starts requiring journalists.
Sources
- NV Secretary of State Aurora bulk export (campaign-finance tables): nvsos.gov/sos/elections/campaign-finance
- NV Legislature roll-call records, 83rd Session 2025: leg.state.nv.us
- NV Lobbyist disclosures, 83rd Session 2025: leg.state.nv.us/Lobbyist/
- NV Ethics Commission, Tracy Brown-May filings: ethics.nv.gov
- Federal Open Payments (CMS — Big Pharma transfers to NV physicians): openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
- Cross-link: NV Campaign Contributions — every donor and recipient back to 2006.
- Cross-link: NPE legislators — every NV legislator's full record.