$88,651 vs. $726

2025, the year before

Her 2025 Year End report lists $49,849 in cash, $803.50 in in-kind help and $20,286.17 spent. Across 2025 and 2026 so far, that is $138,500 in cash.

• Largest 2025 gift: $10,000 from Cloud Interactive USA (South Salt Lake), dated 10/26/25, 20% of her 2025 cash.
• A fundraising day: 42 contributions are dated Oct. 27, 2025, totaling $10,003.50, including $803.50 of in-kind “items for campaign event.” The same date carries a $3,440 “Campaign Expense” to Red Maple.
• An amendment: an entry for $4,000 to “Cloud Interactive,” purpose “Campaign Expense,” dated 10/27/25, was deleted on 1/12/26, per the export’s own amendment note. The Red Maple entry with the same date is marked as amended. The export doesn’t say why either change was made. Deleting and replacing entries is how the state system records corrections.
• A returned gift: $650 of a $750 contribution from Margaret Yee was paid back on 12/24/25 and reported as “Return of a Contribution.”
• Other 2025 donors: Utah Credit Union PAC $2,500, Kem C. Gardner Family Partnership $2,000, Operating Engineers Local 3 $2,000 (two checks), Utah Association for Justice $1,000, Chevron $500, Allstate $500, Utah Bankers PAC $500, Lincoln Hill Partners PAC $500 and Cigna $200.
• What she gave: $4,285 as “Political Support” and $1,900 in donations, including the Utah Democratic Party ($1,200), Ben McAdams ($500), Young Dems ($800), the Utah Asian Charitable Foundation ($1,000) and $100 to an entry filed as “Tran Kaysville.” That name suggests Kaysville Mayor Tami Tran, now the Republican nominee in SD-6 (Case 21), but the entry doesn’t confirm it.

How the H.B. 507 committee vote was taken

On March 2, the minutes say “Acting Chair Kwan called the meeting to order.” Three of the committee’s six members voted on H.B. 507; Senate President Adams, Sen. Millner and Sen. Stevenson were absent for that vote. Under Senate Rule SR3-2-203, a majority of a standing committee is a quorum, and leadership members count toward it only while present. With the President absent, the quorum was three, so the quorum rule was met. Speakers in favor were the Utah Association of Counties and the Utah League of Cities and Towns.

Her earlier bills, as she lists them

Her site lists 14 bills and resolutions she says she “sponsored and passed” in earlier years, including three child care licensing bills, student aid, assisted living facilities, occupational and cosmetology licensing, small claims, mental health protections for first responders, and resolutions on Railroad Workers Day, the Lunar New Year and the value of women. The list gives no years and was not checked bill by bill. None of the 14 deals with the environment. The railroad-worker resolutions line up with her unpaid role as president of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association, which she disclosed.

Her endorsement list

Her site lists more than 100 endorsers, including AFT-Utah, Equality Utah, the Utah Planned Parenthood Action Council, the North Jordan Irrigation Company, several Democratic caucuses, and current and former officials. Many titles on the list are out of date (for example, Ben McAdams as Salt Lake County mayor), so it appears to come from an earlier campaign; this page doesn’t treat it as a 2026 list. Seventeen names on it also appear on her 2026 contributor list, together $3,425, including Luz Escamilla, Peter Corroon, Ben McAdams, Patrice Arent and Mark Wheatley (matched by name). None of the endorsing organizations appears as a 2026 contributor.

Every Tyler contribution (5 entries)

How this was read: her DEX export (DEX20260924_085645.csv) lists two contributions on the Primary Report and no Convention Report rows and no expenditures. Her later itemized list (8/7–9/1/26) was pasted from the state site. The export doesn’t show how she paid her filing fee or any other costs.

Who she is, from her own materials: the Utah Republican Party’s candidate page lists a Ph.D. in sociology from Mississippi State University, a master’s in instructional technology from Utah State University, licensure as a social worker in Utah, and a move to Utah in 1992. Her disclosure form lists Salt Lake Community College (adjunct professor; previously professor).

No campaign website was found as of Sept. 24, 2026. BallotReady and Civoren list no issue positions for her.

Worth seeing side by side

Same college. Both candidates list Salt Lake Community College. Kwan lists herself as professor emeritus in psychology; Tyler as an adjunct professor. BallotReady lists Tyler at the University of Utah; this page goes by her own form.

A voluntary disclosure. Kwan used the optional property section to name a possible conflict that the form doesn’t require her to list. That is the kind of disclosure the form invites.

Two retirement accounts listed as “stocks.” The form excludes funds managed by a third party. Kwan listed her retirement and brokerage accounts anyway, which is more than required.

For both

• You both teach, or taught, at Salt Lake Community College. What would you change about how the state funds higher education?
• Will you post your campaign spending, not just contributions, before early voting starts Oct. 20?

• Kwan’s spending after June 10, 2026, is not in hand. Her later list covers contributions only.
• 2026 money and her 2025 Year End report are covered. Earlier years are not re-checked here.
• Group vs. individual and out-of-state counts are this site’s sorting (by name and ZIP code).
• Name matches to officeholders are by name as filed unless marked confirmed by address.
• Wayne Consulting Management, Luu Investment Group and TSW Auto Sales were not identified beyond the filings.
• Only the votes named in “What she says vs. her record” were reviewed; they were pasted from le.utah.gov roll calls and minutes.
• Bill grades use enrolled-bill summaries and money lines, not a full reading, fiscal notes or vote counts. The state lists no bills she co-sponsored in 2026; her votes were not reviewed.
• Tyler’s campaign video and a scanned state elections PDF were not read.
• Nothing here suggests any rule was broken.