Nevada House candidate’s campaign credited donation to woman who died in 2024, report says

David Flippo, the Republican campaigner for Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District, speaks to attendees astatine a run lawsuit May 19, 2026, successful Genoa. Flippo’s run credited $3,500 of a publication to Joyce Mack, who died successful 2024, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Photo by: Jessica Hill / Associated Press

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Republican legislature campaigner David Flippo’s run attributed portion of a publication to a pistillate who died successful 2024, according to a Wall Street Journal report based connected national run concern filings.

Flippo faces Democrat Teresa Benitez-Thompson successful the contention for Nevada’s unfastened 2nd Congressional District seat.

Marilynn Mack contributed $7,000 to Flippo’s run past month, treble the $3,500 per-election bounds for idiosyncratic donors. Rather than refund the excess, the run reattributed $3,500 to her mother, Joyce Mack, successful amended Federal Election Commission filings, the Journal reported.

Joyce Mack, a Las Vegas philanthropist, died successful 2024. The Thomas & Mack Center astatine UNLV is named for her precocious husband, Jerry Mack, and his concern partner, E. Parry Thomas.

Flippo’s run spokesperson Rory McShane told The Journal the attribution was a clerical error. The run has since amended the filing again, splitting the $7,000 evenly betwixt superior indebtedness and the wide election, The Journal reported.

The Journal reported that the occurrence adds to a drawstring of problems for Flippo’s campaign, including overdue fiscal disclosures and military-award claims helium has since walked back, arsenic the contention to regenerate retiring Rep. Mark Amodei grows much competitory than expected.

Flippo is simply a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and fiscal advisor who has ne'er held elected office. The Washington Post reported Sept. 24 that Flippo falsely claimed connected aggregate occasions successful caller years that helium received a Bronze Star “for valor,” a favoritism reserved for combat heroism alternatively than meritorious service. The Bronze Star helium received successful 2004, during a 24-year Air Force career, did not transportation the “V” instrumentality denoting valor.

The assertion dates to astatine slightest his archetypal legislature run successful 2023, erstwhile the narrator of his announcement video described him arsenic having received the medal for valor. Flippo apologized successful precocious September astatine a quality league successful Reno, blaming run staffers for mixing up his awards, The Journal reported.

That run ended successful a nonaccomplishment to erstwhile North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee successful the June 11, 2024, Republican superior successful the 4th Congressional District successful Southern Nevada.

Flippo moved to Northern Nevada aft Amodei announced his status successful February.

He won the GOP superior June 9 successful the 2nd District, defeating erstwhile authorities Sen. James Settelmeyer, who was backed by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and Amodei, aft President Donald Trump endorsed him May 29.

Only Republicans person held the district, which includes Reno and astir of agrarian Northern Nevada, since it was created aft the 1980 census. Amodei is the lone Republican successful Nevada’s legislature delegation.

Despite the district’s past of electing Republicans, caller polls amusement a competitory contention — a Strategies 360 canvass gave Flippo a 45%-42% lead.

This month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee added Benitez-Thompson to its “Red to Blue” program. She is simply a erstwhile Nevada Assembly bulk person and erstwhile main of unit to authorities Attorney General Aaron Ford.

Democrats, successful a connection responding to The Journal report, noted that Flippo has not yet filed his idiosyncratic fiscal disclosure, though helium has enactment much than $1.6 cardinal of his ain wealth into the race.

Democrats said Flippo’s grounds disqualifies him from representing Nevada.

Amodei, who has represented the territory since 2011, has said helium volition not enactment Flippo, questioning his finances and his ties to the district. Over the weekend, Amodei reiterated that helium would “absolutely not” ballot for Flippo and called him a fraud successful an interrogation with The Journal.

“I’m arrogant of the information that I’m a Republican, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to measurement successful beforehand of fundamentally a fraud freight train,” Amodei said.