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Dossier · Who's Who
Jessie Lane Hunt
A lobbyist reported by The New Mexican as lobbying for OpenAI; the Secretary of State's registry shows her registered only under her own firm, Rio Strategies, with no OpenAI entity registered.
At a glance
- Current role
- Registered lobbyist, under her own firm, Rio Strategies
- Category
- Lobbyist
- Jurisdiction
- State of New Mexico
- Verification
- caveated — True with a stated limit on it
- In the record
- 2 sources · 0 connections · 1 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP193
Key facts
- 2026-09-21The September 21, 2026 email to the Legislative Finance Committee, as reported by The New Mexican, lists Hunt as lobbying for OpenAI.[1]
- Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's lobbyist system.[2]
- The registry shows Hunt registered only under her own firm, Rio Strategies; no OpenAI entity is registered as a lobbyist employer in New Mexico.
- The OpenAI pairing rests on the email as reported.
The record
Reported by The New Mexican as the lobbyist for OpenAI, the Stargate partner whose computing the campus is built to serve. Registered and active for 2026 in the Secretary of State's system. Registry (Sept 28 2026): she is registered only under her own firm, Rio Strategies, and no OpenAI entity is registered as a lobbyist employer in New Mexico.
The OpenAI pairing rests on the email as reported.
In the timeline · 1
Dated entries in the record that involve this party. Appearing here is not an allegation — it means the graph draws an edge from this dossier to that event.
Claims involving them · 1
Sources · 2
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