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New here? Lincoln Hill PAC is registered with Utah's Lieutenant Governor as an active political action committee — but its underlying corporate registration was administratively dissolved in July 2023, and no one has ever re-registered it. Its own corporate filing names three Directors: two registered lobbyists, and Utah's sitting Attorney General.
1. What Is This PAC?
Lincoln Hill PAC was created April 27, 2022, co-founded by the four principals of the lobbying firm Lincoln Hill Partners. Its corporate registration (Utah Entity #12822174-0140) is filed as a domestic nonprofit corporation, formed 4/26/2022, with registered agent McCauley & Associates — the accounting firm of Mike McCauley, who separately serves as Treasurer of a U.S. Senator's own federal leadership PAC (see Section 5).
Directors of Record
- Casey Hill — registered lobbyist, Election Hive-connected
- Lincoln Shurtz — registered lobbyist, MIDA lobbyist
- Derek Brown — sitting Utah Attorney General
Chase Everton, the fourth publicly-credited firm principal, is not listed as a Director of this entity.
2. The Dissolution
Utah's own Division of Corporations lists Lincoln Hill PAC's status as "Inactive — Administratively Dissolved," with an expiration date of 7/20/2023 and no renewal on file since. That dissolution sits in the middle of the PAC's own five-year giving history — meaning more than half of the $627,000 it has raised and spent came after its underlying corporation stopped existing.
For context: the related entity "Lincoln Hill Partners" — the name used for both the lobbying firm and this PAC's own branding — is itself legally just an Assumed Name (DBA), filed under Fides LLC (Lincoln Shurtz's own entity) on 1/11/2021, months before the firm's October 2021 merger was ever publicly announced. Full detail on that structure lives in the "Men Behind Lincoln Hill" profile, linked in Related Coverage below.
3. Who Funds It
The $80,000 match. Scott Ryan Smith — Qualtrics co-founder and owner of the Utah Jazz and Utah Mammoth — personally gave $80,000, landing 12 days after an identical $80,000 donation from Fides LLC. Qualtrics became a registered Casey Hill lobbying client the following January. Fides LLC's own Certificate of Organization states its purpose plainly as "Political advisory and consulting" — Shurtz is his own registered agent for it.
Other confirmed funders: Integrity Strategies LLC (Derek Brown's own entity) $17,500 — using a dissolved Illinois entity's address; Koda Resources $19,500; Bankhead Strategies $15,000; Red Hill Public Strategies/Strategic (Scarborough, ME) $30,000 combined across two name variants; HEMMCO LLC (Dan Hemmert's own entity) $5,000; Angeles/Angels Share Holdings $32,500 combined.
Top 15 Donors, Full List ▾
| Donor | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fides LLC (Lincoln Shurtz) | $339,500 |
| Scott Ryan Smith | $80,000 |
| EnergySolutions | $45,000 |
| Legislative Insight Consulting | $42,500 |
| Angeles/Angels Share Holdings (combined) | $32,500 |
| Red Hill Public Strategies/Strategic (combined) | $30,000 |
| Koda Resources | $19,500 |
| Integrity Strategies LLC (Derek Brown) | $17,500 |
| Bankhead Strategies | $15,000 |
| HEMMCO LLC (Dan Hemmert) | $5,000 |
| Allvest Information Services Inc. | $5,000 |
| Chad Westover | $5,000 |
| School AI Inc | $2,500 |
| Diamante Vista, L.L.C. | $1,000 |
4. Where It Goes
Leadership PAC$50,000
Smaller sums also went to then-House Minority Leader Brian King ($750), Senate Minority Leader Luz Escamilla ($1,000), the House Minority PAC ($500), Utah's Senate Democratic caucus PAC ($500), and several other Democratic legislators.
5. The Vendors Behind the Numbers
Lux Events Inc
LUX Catering & Events, a Salt Lake City catering company founded in 1995.
McCauley & Associates
The PAC's own registered agent (see Section 1) is also a paid vendor. Its principal, Mike McCauley, is Treasurer of Sen. John Curtis's federal leadership PAC (Utah First PAC) across multiple election cycles, and was formerly Treasurer of Rep. Burgess Owens' campaign committee — a role that drew an FEC complaint (MUR 8066, closed in 2023, no violation found).
6. Transaction Explorer
A representative set of confirmed transactions from the PAC's full multi-year DEX export. Search by name, or filter by type.
| Date | Type | Name | Amount | Purpose | Notes |
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7. Worth Asking
- Why has a dissolved corporation never been asked to re-register? Utah's own registry has shown "Administratively Dissolved" since July 2023.
- Does the Attorney General's office have any role in overseeing PAC compliance that would touch a PAC he is personally listed as a Director of?
- Is the $80,000 Fides LLC/Scott Ryan Smith timing coincidental, or does it reflect coordination between a firm principal and a client whose company joined the firm's roster the following month?
8. Research Status
Resolved during research:
- Diamante Vista ($1,000) — identified as Diamante Vista, L.L.C. (Murray, UT). No connection found to any principal in this network; the LLC's own registered address doesn't match the address on its contribution filing, an unexplained discrepancy.
- Allvest Information Services Inc. ($5,000) — a Washington-domiciled foreign corporation registered in Utah since 2004. No connection found.
- School AI Inc ($2,500) — a real, substantial Lehi-based AI-in-education company (SchoolAI), giving it an obvious policy interest in how Utah regulates AI in schools.
- A previously-flagged "Committee to Elect Derik Brown" oddity is confirmed genuine — that exact misspelling is the real name on file with the state for a $1,000 payment (11/16/2023), one of at least three Brown-committee name variants in Utah's system.
Still open:
- John Gilmore, Central 9th Community Council, Northern Utah PAC, Huntsman Mental Health Foundation, Liberty & Legacy PAC, Neighbors for Keven Stratton, and Utah Hispanic Chamber — all $5,000-range recipients, not yet individually researched.
- Whether the Attorney General's office has taken, or is required to take, any position on a PAC's own corporate dissolution status when that PAC lists the Attorney General himself as a Director.
Sources
- Utah Lieutenant Governor's Office, disclosures.utah.gov — Lincoln Hill PAC full DEX transaction exports, 2021–2026 (5 files, 258 transactions, reconciling exactly to $627,000)
- Utah Division of Corporations — Lincoln Hill PAC corporate registration (Entity #12822174-0140), Fides LLC (Entity #12063536-0160), Integrity Strategies LLC
- Diamante Vista LLC, Allvest Information Services Inc. — Utah Division of Corporations entity records
- McCauley & Associates, P.C. — Utah entity registry; Mike McCauley's Utah First PAC and Burgess 4 Utah treasurer roles per FEC/ProPublica itemizer data and FEC MUR 8066
- SchoolAI (School AI Inc) — Bloomberg company profile, Built In, TIPS vendor profile
