Sixteen to One

Sen. Jerry W. Stevenson (SD-6, outgoing) gave Bob Stevenson $1,000 on 6/11/26 — filed under the exact mailing address (466 S 1700 W, Layton) already on file for the senator in this outlet's own research. Jerry Stevenson is MIDA Vice Chair and sits simultaneously on the MIDA, UIPA, and Point of the Mountain State Land Authority boards. Whether the two Stevensons are related has come up before in this outlet's research (also unresolved regarding a "Jed D. Stevenson" who gave $4,000 to Tami Tran, Jerry Stevenson's own SD-6 successor) and remains unconfirmed — a shared surname and Davis County/Layton-area address, not a documented family record.

This isn't Bob Stevenson's only Stevenson connection worth knowing about: Jerry Stevenson's son, Jed Stevenson, runs the private company managing a large share of Utah's charter schools — full writeup at Jed Stevenson, Unelected Power. The full seat-by-seat picture of who's coming, going, and replacing each other across Layton/South Weber this cycle is mapped in The Layton Shuffle (Case 20).

Education First Utah gave Stevenson $7,500 ($2,500 on 2/17/26 + $5,000 on 5/15/26) — tied with Jerry Stevenson for the largest individual/combined total in that PAC's entire 2021–2026 donor history. Yet Stevenson does not appear on EFU's own 42-name public endorsement slate. That slate skews toward incumbents with an education-committee or voting record; Stevenson, entering from the county commission, has neither yet.

Clyde Companies Inc ($2,000), Staker Parson Companies — a confirmed Clyde subsidiary — ($1,000), and Scott Parson personally ($1,000) combine to $4,000 from one corporate family. The same network is already documented giving to Jill Koford's SD5 campaign and $11,500 combined to the Utah House Republican Election Committee.

Treasure: Brian Treasure and Jack Treasure gave repeatedly across every reporting period — Brian at least $600 combined across five separate gifts (some marked "Re-occurring"), Jack at least $300 across five gifts — sustained family support rather than one-time contributions. Stevenson: beyond the unresolved Jerry Stevenson question above, no other family-name donors were found in his record.

Not a donor connection, but relevant context: Trevor Lee, the incumbent Stevenson unseated, is the son of Susan Lee — who won her own Republican primary for Davis County Commission Seat B the same night her son lost his. She and Trevor Lee are not sharing a November ballot (he lost his primary), and her campaign platform doesn't reference his record.

Three names gave to both Stevenson and Treasure: Eric Last ($100 to each), Skyler Johnson ($50 to Stevenson / $100 to Treasure), and Emily Bingham ($25 to Stevenson / $50 to Treasure). Not independently confirmed as the same individuals in each case, but the name-and-amount pattern is worth a second look before publication.

Kevin Garn gave Stevenson $10,000 (2/26/26) — his single largest individual donation, ahead of Kent Murdock's $9,000. Garn is the former Utah House Majority Leader who resigned his seat in 2010 and withdrew from a 2002 congressional bid, both times over disclosures of past personal conduct that were extensively covered by Utah media at the time (Deseret News, KSL, Salt Lake Tribune). Worth naming because of the dollar amount and his continued presence as a major GOP donor, not because of any connection between that history and this race.

Theresa Foxley ($100) — EDCUtah's former President/CEO (predecessor to Ryan Starks, see the Hive's Ryan Starks/EDCUtah file), a direct-line connection to Stevenson's own "Past Public Vice Chair" role at EDCUtah. Also notable but smaller: Jeremy Andrus (Traeger CEO, $2,500), Ally Isom (GOP communications strategist, $500), Sen. Evan Vickers (Senate Majority Leader, $500 personally), Stephen Handy (former legislator, $1,000), and law firms Holland & Hart ($250) and Parsons Behle & Latimer ($400). On Treasure's side, Rosemary T. Lesser ($500, 6/4/26) and David Lesser ($200, 1/6/26) — the former HD10 Democratic representative and her husband, an established Democratic-network gift rather than a new connection.

Social Security tax repeal, property tax reform, housing, and water policy. Bio: lifelong Layton resident, Layton High graduate, volunteer Layton firefighter, B.A. Education/Weber State, former teacher, small businessman, Layton City Council, Layton Mayor, current Davis County Commissioner. Education is not listed among his stated legislative priorities despite his teaching background and Education First Utah's $7,500 in funding.

Extensive board/civic service listed on his own site: Northern Utah Economic Alliance (Chair), UTA Advisory Board (Chair), Wasatch Front Regional Council (Past Chair), Economic Development Corporation of Utah (Past Public Vice Chair), Wasatch Integrated Waste (Past Chair), Weber Basin Water District Board, Utah Association of Counties Board, Utah League of Cities and Towns Board, among others. The two bolded roles are entities this outlet already tracks — see the Hive's Wasatch Front Regional Council research and the Hive's Ryan Starks/EDCUtah file — worth cross-referencing his board tenure against that existing research. His self-described "Chair" role at Northern Utah Economic Alliance is more precisely a co-chair arrangement, confirmed via NUEA's own site: Stevenson (Davis County) and Gage Froerer (Weber County Commissioner) jointly co-chair its Advisory Board, under NUEA President Chris Roybal — the same NUEA already central to this outlet's Froerer/Roybal/Adams Leadership PAC/Inland Port money-chain research (see the Hive's West Weber money-chain research). EDCUtah was awarded a three-year contract to support NUEA at its 2019 founding, and Ryan Starks — the subject of this outlet's own EDCUtah case file — is separately confirmed (via OpenCorporates) as a director of both EDCUtah and its legally separate Foundation arm, an overlapping board relationship with Stevenson's own "Past Public Vice Chair" role there.

Two additional entity ties found via Utah Division of Corporations business search, not listed on his campaign site: Stevenson is sole Member of BJS Quality Homes, LLC; and he sits as a board Officer of Family Connection Center, Inc. (Clearfield, operating as Open Doors Utah, a family-services nonprofit), alongside Joy Petro — Layton's sitting Mayor — who serves as Trustee on the same board.

Self-described mayoral record includes a moratorium on apartments and lowered property taxes; commission record includes ending a $100,000+/year county fair subsidy, consolidating 911 dispatch, and paying off the conference center bond.

Stevenson's campaign site features a personal endorsement quote from "K.O. Murdock, Layton" ("I've known Bob most of my life... we needed him as our Layton Mayor and as a Davis County Commissioner, and now we need him in the Legislature"). This is very likely Kent Murdock, who gave Stevenson $9,000 (4/20/26) — one of his largest individual donors. Not independently confirmed as the same person beyond the shared name and Layton connection, but worth a direct check before publication.

Five stated legislative priorities: strengthening public education, restoring the Great Salt Lake, protecting public lands for future generations, "real solutions for affordability for working families," and "ensuring dignity and equal rights for all." Site frames her as bringing "career experience solving problems in both the private and public sector." Campaign email atreasure4ut@gmail.com; paid for by the Committee to Elect Abigail Treasure.

Treasure's campaign site carries a standalone statement on the Stratos data center project (Box Elder County) — 40,000 acres, 9 GW projected power draw, described on her site as set to nearly double the entire state's current power usage. Her stated concerns: no environmental impact study conducted yet, water supply and drought-timing risk, projected ~50% increase in Utah's carbon emissions from natural-gas generation at that scale, local warming, and ecological disruption to migratory wildlife.

Most notable for this outlet's purposes: she states the project "was proposed, planned, and approved in record time without meaningful public input," and specifically cites "growing concerns about how individuals involved in the approval process may personally benefit from the project" — language that tracks directly with this outlet's own documented Stratos research (see the Hive's Stratos research). Her statement doesn't name individuals; this outlet's own reporting does. Worth cross-referencing if writing further on either thread.

Her public page lists "Treasure, Abigail Conflict of Interest – 1/2/2026" under Filed Documents. The form lists her job as a design engineer at Parker Hannifin Control Systems in Ogden ("Flight control systems manufacturing"); "NA" for businesses, the $5,000+ income line, stocks and boards; and her spouse, Matthew Salt, self-employed in contract engineering and previously at Sentry Equipment, which the form asks for only if she sees a possible conflict.

Grade: B. Listing a spouse's employers beyond what the form requires is graded B on every Hive page. Her income line is left blank while her job is named on the form; because the job is named, that is noted, not graded.

As of Oct. 3, 2026, the public page for his "2026 House-16" campaign lists one filed document, a Statement of Organization, and three campaign finance reports (Convention, Primary and September 30th). No conflict-of-interest form is listed. Treasure's page, the same kind of page, lists hers. Davis County records show his declaration of candidacy was filed Jan. 16, 2026.

Grade: F. A form not on file is graded F on every Hive page. If the form is filed somewhere this page doesn't show, send the link to webercountyhive@gmail.com and the grade will be corrected and dated.

• Lieutenant Governor's Elections Office (disclosure@utah.gov; 801-538-1041): Is a conflict-of-interest form on file for Bob Stevenson's 2026 House District 16 campaign? If so, why isn't it listed on his public page?
• Lieutenant Governor's Elections Office: State law says a filing officer may not accept a legislative declaration of candidacy until the form is filed online. How is that checked, and what happens when a form is missing later?
• Davis County Clerk's elections office: When Stevenson's declaration was accepted on Jan. 16, 2026, was his conflict-of-interest form on file?

• CMV PAC's standard signature-gathering package is about $5,625. Your gift from them was $42,750 — roughly seven to eight times that. What was the $42,750 for?
• You received $27,436 from Education First Utah since 2021, tied for the most of any candidate, but you're not on the PAC's own 42-name endorsement list. Why do you think that is, and do you agree with their funding priorities?
• Wasatch Front Regional Council and the Economic Development Corporation of Utah both appear on your board résumé. What did those roles involve, and do any of your PAC or corporate donors also have ties to those boards?
• Education isn't listed among your stated legislative priorities despite your background as a teacher. Is education policy part of your legislative agenda?
• Is Sen. Jerry Stevenson a relative? If so, how would that affect how you work with him or his successor in the legislature?

• Your statement on the Stratos data center raises concerns about who may personally benefit from the approval process. Can you name who you mean, or what you've seen that raises that concern?
• With a fundraising gap this large, what's your plan to get your platform in front of District 16 voters between now and November?
• Your priorities include "equal rights for all" and Great Salt Lake restoration — what specific legislation would you introduce or support in your first session?

• Would you support requiring PACs to disclose the specific purpose of large gifts to campaigns, the way in-kind contributions already must be itemized?
• What's your position on the Stratos data center project and Box Elder County's water supply?
• What would you do, specifically, on property tax relief for Davis County homeowners?