Who pays to lobby in Santa Fe.

Sources: New Mexico Secretary of State, CFIS public lobbyist search, filing year 2026 (JSON behind https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/#/exploreLobbyists); New Mexico Secretary of State, CFIS public lobbyist employer search, filing year 2026 (JSON behind https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/#/exploreClients); New Mexico Secretary of State, Richard Guay, 2026 Lobbyist Expenditure Reports: January-May (filed May 6, amended July 19 and July 20, 2026) and May-October (filed Oct. 8, 2026), from the public lobbyist search; New Mexico Secretary of State, CFIS public lobbyist and employer report search, Jan. 1 to Oct. 23, 2026; Laws 2019, Senate Bill 191 (as enacted), amending NMSA 1978 Section 2-11-6, expenditure report contents and deadlines.

The largest entry on the list: what the reports show

The Secretary of State's public lobbyist list shows $3,444,500.00 in 2026 expenditures for lobbyist Richard Guay (listed as "Guay, Richard"), who is registered for four employers: Oracle America, Inc.; RealPage, Inc; Veteran and Non Profit Fraternals; Waste Connections Rocky Mountain Division. That is about 73 percent of all expenditures on the list ($4,733,711.53).

All of it is on his January-May report as amended in July. It lists 10 payments to Brabender Cox dated Jan. 2, 2026 to April 6, 2026, each marked as made on behalf of Oracle America, Inc.: media buys ($2,200,000.00), media production ($1,050,000.00), general consulting ($150,000.00), polling ($44,500.00). On every line the filer wrote that the expense was incurred by Oracle, was disclosed voluntarily for transparency, and was not a reportable lobbying expense. The reports do not say what the media, polling or consulting was about.

The report as first filed on May 6, 2026 listed no expenditures; the amendments filed July 19 and July 20 added the ten payments (the July 20 version is used here). His May-October report, filed Oct. 8, lists no expenditures. The payments are Oracle's spending as reported by its lobbyist; they are not in the employer table above, which shows only what employers reported themselves.

His political contributions on the two reports total $11,600.00 ($3,850.00 and $7,750.00), the same as the list. Contributions are a separate measure and are not part of the expenditures.

The list marks his registration "Out of Compliance", as it does 274 of the other 671 lobbyists on it; it does not say why. The state's site did not serve these report files to us (each answered "not found" on Oct. 23, 2026); the copies we used were downloaded the same day from the Secretary of State's public lobbyist search in a normal browser and are saved unchanged with our records.

Sources: New Mexico Secretary of State, CFIS public lobbyist search, filing year 2026 (JSON behind https://login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us/#/exploreLobbyists); New Mexico Secretary of State, Richard Guay, 2026 Lobbyist Expenditure Reports: January-May (filed May 6, amended July 19 and July 20, 2026) and May-October (filed Oct. 8, 2026), from the public lobbyist search.

How to read this

New Mexico lobbyists register with the Secretary of State under the Lobbyist Regulation Act and name each employer (client) they lobby for. Lobbyists, and employers that spend money themselves, file expenditure reports: one in May, one in October and one in January for the rest of the year, plus a report within 48 hours for any single expenditure of $500 or more during a legislative session. The reports list meals and beverages, other entertainment and other expenditures, and political contributions. They do not list what employers pay their lobbyists: state law says that pay need not be reported, so New Mexico has no lobbying-pay figures like other states. The Secretary of State's search lists 672 lobbyists and 1433 lobbyist employers registered for 2026. The table ranks employers by the expenditures they reported on their own reports; only 19 employers reported any. Most lobbying spending is reported by lobbyists on their own reports, which CFIS totals per lobbyist across all of that lobbyist's clients and does not split by client, so the table leaves out spending reported by an employer's lobbyists. Political contributions are campaign money and are kept apart from expenditures. Being a lobbyist or an employer, or making a reported expenditure or contribution, is lawful and public; these records do not show that any official acted because of it.

What is not here yet

• Pay to lobbyists is not reported in New Mexico (NMSA 1978 Section 2-11-6(F) as amended in 2019), so no client can be ranked by lobbying pay; the compensation columns in CFIS are $0 for every filer.
• Expenditures and contributions reported by lobbyists are totaled by CFIS per lobbyist across all their clients. Splitting them by client would need each report (PDF) to be read; the report files did not download from the public API in this run, so per-client figures from lobbyists' reports are not yet checked. The employer table therefore covers only what employers reported themselves.
• Richard Guay's 2026 report files answered 404 to our workspace; the copies used for his entry were downloaded by our editor from the public search in a normal browser on Oct. 23, 2026 (raw/PULLS.md). Other lobbyists' reports were not read.
• CFIS does not say which reports feed the 2026 totals on its lists (for example, whether the January 2026 report for October-December 2025 counts toward 2026). The figures are shown as the lists give them on Oct. 23, 2026.
• The 2019 text of Section 2-11-6 was read; later amendments, if any, were not checked.
• Lobbying advertising campaign registrations and reports (organizations spending more than $2,500 on lobbying advertising) are in the report index but were not analyzed.
• Legislative and executive-agency activity (bills lobbied) was not pulled.
• Years before 2026 were not pulled.

Gaps in the lobbying records as of the date checked.