Marilyn Dondero Loop

A $1.8 billion giveaway. A conflict of interest.
She voted yes.

A member of her family is an executive at a lobbying firm that pushed the $1.8 billion studio deal in the 2025 special session. She voted yes. She never disclosed the conflict.

Undisclosed conflict of interest
A family member's firm lobbied for the $1.8B deal. She voted yes.
Charter teachers cut out
Voted for the raise that left them out. The fix died in her committee.
Soft on crime
Yea on AB236. Weaker penalties for theft and drugs.
Gas tax hikes, no ballot
Yea on AB530. Locked in through 2036.
Marilyn Dondero Loop

“$1.8b megadeal for Las Vegas film studio dies at Legislature in ‘referendum on special interests’”

Nevada Current · November 2025

“Film tax fiasco: How a three-year push to create Hollywood 2.0 in Las Vegas cratered”

The Nevada Independent · 2025

“Nevada 3rd worst for public schools, dropping four spots since last year”

Elko Daily Free Press · 2026
$0BThe giveaway she voted for
0Hearings for the charter teacher fix
$650The new felony theft line
2026Gas hikes locked through

Sources: Official Nevada Legislature roll calls (AB5, SB231, SB506, AB236, AB530) · World Population Review, 2026 · full citations below

The Record / 01 · The Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest.
She voted yes and never disclosed it.

A member of her family is an executive vice president at a lobbying firm. When the $1.8 billion film tax credit deal came to the special session, that firm had five lobbyists registered for the developer of the studio site. Dondero Loop voted yes. Ten senators spoke before the vote. She was not one of them. A conflict of interest, never disclosed.

The bill · AB5$1.8 billion in tax credits over 15 years
Her voteYEA, November 19, 2025
Conflict of interest disclosedNever
The resultFailed 10 to 8. Her own party's holdouts stopped it.
Undisclosed conflict

The Record / 02 · Teachers Cut Out

Charter teachers teach public school kids.
She left them out of the raise.

In 2023, Nevada funded a $250 million raise for teachers, but only the ones who work for school districts. Charter teachers, who teach the same public school kids, got nothing. Dondero Loop voted for it. When a bill to give charter teachers the same raise reached the committee she chairs, it never even got a hearing. She talks about supporting educators. Her record shows who she left out.

The raise fund · SB231, 2023$250M, districts only
Charter-school teachersLeft out
Her voteYEA, June 3, 2023
The fix · SB506, 2025Direct raises for charter teachers
Where it was sentFinance. The committee she chairs.
Hearings heldZero
Died. No hearing.

Supporting record · Education

Her signature issue.
Still at the bottom.

Education Committee, 2009. Vice chair, 2011 and 2013. Vice chair again today. The results never came.

2008Elected to the Assembly
2009Education Committee
2011Vice Chair, Education
2013Vice Chair, Education
2018Elected to the Senate
2019–Vice Chair, Senate Education · Chair, Finance
2026Schools: 3rd worst in U.S. (World Population Review)
Public schools, U.S. · WPR 202648th of 50
One-year trend · WPR 2026Down 4 spots
CCSD administrators, 2014–23+13%
CCSD teachers, 2014–23+2%
Student enrollment, 2014–23−6%
On education committeesSince 2009
Marilyn Dondero Loop

A career in the schools. A state at the bottom.

Sen. Marilyn Dondero Loop

Education is her issue.
48th is her record.

Eighteen years. Committee after committee. Still third-worst in America.

Still at the bottom

The Record / 03 · Crime

Nevada could have gotten tougher.
She voted to go softer.

AB236 rolled back penalties statewide. Weaker on theft. Weaker on drugs. She voted yes.

Felony theft threshold$650 → $1,200
Drug trafficking threshold4g → 100g
Drug possessionNo felony until 3rd offense
Her voteYEA — June 3, 2019

The Record / 04 · The Gas Tax

You were promised a vote.
She gave it away.

Clark County was promised a 2026 ballot question on automatic gas-tax hikes. AB530 gave the decision to politicians instead. The ballot never comes.

The promiseA 2026 ballot question
Her voteYEA — AB530, May 12, 2025
The resultAutomatic hikes through 2036
Your ballotNever comes
No ballot. No say.
Marilyn Dondero Loop

Nevada needs schools that work.
Nevada deserves better.

A $1.8 billion giveaway with an undisclosed conflict of interest. Charter teachers left out. Weaker penalties on the books. Higher gas taxes without your ballot. The record is the reason.

Wrong for Nevada