New here? UHREC is the Utah House Republican Election Committee — the caucus-wide leadership PAC that funds Republican House candidates statewide, distinct from Speaker Schultz's own personal leadership PAC (see that separate case file) though the two run coordinated fundraising and share the same Treasurer.
1. What Is This PAC?
UHREC's own registration lists Mike Schultz (Speaker) and Casey Snider (Majority Leader) as Primary Officers, Candice Pierucci (Majority Whip) as an Officer, and Kyle Palmer as Treasurer/CFO/Director with sole signature authority over disbursements — the same Palmer who holds the identical role at House Speaker Leadership PAC and NUPAC, and who personally owns Irish Elk LLC, a vendor all three PACs pay.
2. The Real Scale
An earlier partial pull put UHREC's activity at roughly $1.3 million in / $1.08 million out. A full 2018-2026 pull — 1,733 raw transaction rows — shows the real number is nearly double that.
Contributions received by year. *2026 is partial — the cycle isn't complete. This more than doubles the previously-cited $1.3M "2023-2026 only" figure once 2018-2022 ($960,200.72) is included.
2024 stands out for the opposite reason most years do: expenditures ($556,350.91) ran at 201.2% of that year's contributions ($276,574.87). UHREC spent more than double what it raised that year — meaning it drew down existing reserves to fund an especially active election cycle.
3. The Current Open Period
UHREC's most recent reporting period (6/23-9/2/2026) is not yet closed — this is a running total, not a final report. As of this pull it stands at $86,700 across 26 contributions, up from an earlier $68,200/22-gift snapshot as four new entries arrived after 8/14/26.
| Donor | Amount | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Utah Association for Justice Inc Lawyers Involved for Utah | $8,000 | Largest gift this period |
| PMI US Corporate Services | $7,500 | Philip Morris International's US corporate affairs/lobbying arm |
| The Larry H Miller Company | $6,000 | Third different LHM-to-UHREC figure across three pulls — see Research Status |
| Utah Bankers Association - State PAC | $6,000 | |
| UCUPAC | $6,000 | UCUPAC also gave $10,000 to HSLPAC the same cycle |
| Anheuser Busch Companies | $6,000 | New since last pull |
| RAI Services | $6,000 | New since last pull |
| UTAH MEDICAL PAC | $4,000 | |
| 1-800 Contacts Inc | $3,500 | |
| Reagan Outdoor Advertising | $4,000 | New since last pull |
Remaining smaller gifts this period: Enterprise Holdings $1,500, Maverick Inc $2,500, Utah Rural Electric PAC $2,500, AGPAC $2,500, Utah AGC-PAC $2,500, Tourism Works PAC $2,500, BCP Development Inc $2,500, Airbnb $2,500, Utah Restaurant Association $2,500, Select Health $2,500, Dino PAC $1,500, Utah Beer Wholesalers Association PAC $1,250, Utah Food Industry Association Food PAC $625, Utah Taxpayers Association $625, T-Mobile $700, Responsive Gov Action $1,000.
This running subtotal is not an ending-balance figure and should not be combined with the closed-period totals in Section 1 without confirming overlap — a filing-calendar limitation, not something further research can resolve before the next report closes.
4. The Three Cases
Three candidates already documented elsewhere in this project received large, verified UHREC totals, each cross-checked from the recipient's own filings as well as UHREC's.
| Candidate | UHREC Total | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Matt MacPherson | $70,000 | 4 payments 2023-2025 ($40,000) + $10,000 (7/15/26) + $20,000 (8/24/26) — fully reconciled against his own raw export |
| Jill Koford | $60,000 | 6 payments of $10,000 each, 2022-2025 — an undercount correction from an earlier $40,000 estimate |
| Jordan Teuscher | $32,000 | 8 payments 2022-2026 — an undercount correction from an earlier $24,000 estimate |
One specific claim tied to the MacPherson case did NOT hold up on re-verification: an earlier analysis claimed a UHREC payment landed during the exact legislative debate window for HB 82. No payment lands anywhere near those dates — that specific timing claim has been dropped. The $40,000 base total (now $70,000 with later payments) remains confirmed; the debate-window coincidence does not.
Standard framing used throughout this file: Palmer "controls disbursements" or holds "sole signature authority" — not legal conclusions. Every figure here is attributed to the specific filing it comes from.
5. The Coombs Connection
UHREC paid Chris Coombs $128,838 across the years on file. Utah's corporate registry shows Coombs is a Director of "Friends of Spencer Cox" — Gov. Cox's own campaign committee — registered at 136 S Main St Ste A200, Salt Lake City. That is the exact same address as Election Hive LLC, Matthew Lusty's political consulting firm, itself paid $84,303.76 by UHREC across the years on file (more than three times an earlier partial estimate of $24,196.56).
Coombs is simultaneously a director on the Governor's own campaign committee and based out of the same office suite as the Governor's campaign vendor, while also being paid over $128,000 by a separate legislative leadership PAC. What specific services that payment covers hasn't been established beyond the entity overlap itself.
6. Worth Asking
- UHREC, House Speaker Leadership PAC, and NUPAC all pay large sums to the identical Kyle Palmer-controlled vendor, Irish Elk LLC. At what combined scale does routine multi-client PAC administration become something else worth naming differently?
- Right Insight received $125,727.42 as "the prior UHREC vendor before Irish Elk took over." What changed in that transition, and did it affect what services the PAC actually received for the money?
- "Responsive Gov Action" gave $1,000 this period — it describes itself as the political arm of a nonpartisan election-administration nonprofit. Does a nonpartisan-mission organization giving to a partisan state leadership committee complicate that "nonpartisan" framing, even at a small dollar amount?
7. Research Status
Still open:
- What specific services Chris Coombs' $128,838 in payments covered — not yet established beyond the address overlap.
- Larry H Miller Company's UHREC giving shows three different figures across three separate pulls ($15,000 on 3/18/26 per UHREC's own Convention filing; $6,000 on 7/19/26 per a later tranche; a contributor-side re-pull showing nothing) — not yet reconciled.
- Dominion Energy Inc PAC's $6,000 gift (1/8/26) appears on UHREC's own filing despite Dominion's own Utah PAC status page showing "Closed" with no 2025/2026 report — not yet resolved.
- HOALiving Holdings LLC ($15,000, largest single check in its period) is identified only to a registered agent and address — no further business detail confirmed.
Sources
- Utah State Elections Office, CFIS campaign finance disclosures — UHREC's full 2018-2026 DEX export (1,733 rows) and 2026 Convention Report
- Utah Division of Corporations — Chris Coombs / Friends of Spencer Cox, HOALiving Holdings LLC entity filings
- Matt MacPherson's own campaign committee raw DEX export — independent cross-verification
- Cross-referenced against this project's own House Speaker Leadership PAC, NUPAC/Millner/Palmer, and Jill Koford/SD-5 case files
