Hatch "catches a ride" on the Leucadia private jet "if it is going to or from Washington, D.C." Leucadia is a firm owned by well-known Democrat Ian Cumming. But one of his top executives is former Republican consultant Bud Scruggs. "The senator calls Bud and he catches a ride; we pay (Leucadia) the cost of a first-class airfare," says Hansen. (Scruggs sits on the Deseret Morning News' board of directors.)

Hatch is paying Jim Bennett, a son of Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, to run Hatch's campaign Web site.

Hatch is paying pollster Dan Jones & Associates (who does polling for the Morning News and KSL-TV) $1,000 a month as a consulting retainer, as well as paying Jones for any specific polls he may do for the Hatch campaign.

Hatch is paying the law firm of Dan Berman for campaign office space, as well regularly paying the Girl Scouts of America $15,000 for larger office space for the campaign. When Hatch was chairman of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, he once pushed Berman, a Democrat, for a federal appeals court judgeship.

Campaign cash on hand

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) — $2.5 million

Pete Ashdown (D) — $12,800

Rep. Jim Matheson (D) — $1 million

State Rep. LaVar Christensen (R) — $104,000

Rep. Chris Cannon (R) — $136,000

Christian Burridge (D) — NA*

Rep. Rob Bishop (R) — NA*

Steve Olsen (D) — $1,343

*report not in yet to the Federal Election Commission

source: Federal Election Commission and candidates' campaigns

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