Adam Paul Laxalt (born August 31, 1978) is an American attorney and politician. A Republican, he served as the 33rd Nevada attorney general from 2015 to 2019.. Laxalt is the son of former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico and grandson of former Nevada Governor and U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt.He graduated from Georgetown University and its law school before working as an …
May 26, 2014 · Laxalt is only 34, has never run for office before and is campaigning for attorney general—attorney general!—in Nevada, where he has been …
Laxalt, the grandson of former Nevada Sen. Paul Laxalt and son of former New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, served as state attorney general from 2015 to 2019 and unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2018.
Feb 15, 2022 · Ronda Churchill/AFP via GettyWhen Republican Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt was Nevada’s attorney general, he was responsible for enforcing the law. Now, a watchdog alleges that his nonprofit violated federal regulations governing charities, and is asking the IRS to revoke the group’s tax status.On Tuesday, End Citizens United filed a complaint against Laxalt’s “dark …
Oct 02, 2014 · Born in Reno but raised in Washington, D.C., Laxalt, the Republican nominee for attorney general, says his Nevada roots stretch back 150 years and that his “family has done nothing but serve the ...
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Adam Laxalt, that’s who. Who? Laxalt is only 34, has never run for office before and is campaigning for attorney general—attorney general! —in Nevada, where he has been a cipher until just recently and whose last name explains … everything.
In fact, it was only last year that Adam Laxalt’s mother Michelle, a 24-year-old Reagan operative at the time of the affair and now a well-known Washington lobbyist, revealed her son’s parentage for the first time, a sensational revelation that almost certainly had the effect of clearing the way for his political career.
Adelson himself bundled $30,000 to Laxalt this year and his right-hand man, Mike Leven, gave $5,000. When I asked him about Laxalt’s prospects, Abboud told me, “This is going to be a much more competitive race than people would like to think.”.
Laxalt did not officially announce his candidacy until after the new year, thus avoiding having to file a campaign report, which surely would have been dwarfed by Miller’s extraordinary $900,000 haul—an extraordinary amount for an AG race. But he wasted little time getting rolling.
By February, the gang was all there, appearing at a fundraising event for Laxalt at, ironically, the place where Harry Reid lives in D.C. —the Ritz-Carlton.
As for Adam, until recently he was a virtual unknown in the state his grandfather once ruled. He was born in Reno but raised by Michelle, who never married, in Washington, D.C., where she has been a successful lobbyist and TV pundit.
That’s because Laxalt has one of the most unusual pedigrees in American politics: He’s the grandson of Paul Laxalt, the former senator and Ronald Reagan confidant once known as “the first friend”—still, at 91, casting a long if not always visible shadow in Nevada politics.
Born in Reno but raised in Washington, D.C., Laxalt, the Republican nominee for attorney general, says his Nevada roots stretch back 150 years and that his “family has done nothing but serve the state of Nevada.”.
Tougher road or not, Laxalt’s family name helped him net nearly $600,000 in donations in the first six months of 2014, giving him a two-to-one fundraising edge over Miller in that timespan. “Part of Miller’s made-up campaign is to act like I’m not raising money,” Laxalt said. “We’ll meet him head to head on spending.”.
And in February, former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld helped kickstart Laxalt’s campaign with a $5,000 donation, campaign finance records show. “Laxalt has … a tougher road to tap the legacy as the memory of Sen. Laxalt is fading,” Herzik said.
In February, she also became known as the attorney general who was sanctioned for bringing a frivolous lawsuit, which was handled by an East Coast law firm, against Lender Processing Services, now called Black Knight Financial.
Although the Miller campaign declined all requests for an interview, Erik Herzik, professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno, says that despite serving so long, Miller’s father really isn’t known for major accomplishments.