From Deseret News archives:
Hatch, Matheson war chests brimming
Hatch, R-Utah, is still fattening an already plump $2.4 million that he has sitting in his campaign accounts even though his next election is a distant six years away.
Both men's war chests could scare away potential challengers, who would need to overcome such vast head starts in money.
Utah's other incumbents have small head starts on fund raising. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, has $85,814 in cash; Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, $82,609; and Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, $114,825.
Despite Hatch's $2.4 million which already is far more than what most Utah politicians spend on statewide races he is trying to raise even more and is investing significant amounts of money to do so.
Hatch also continues to pay "Mr. Mac" Christensen, of local clothier fame, and longtime GOP activist Stan Parrish $6,000 a month ($72,000 a year) for "fund raising and other items," Hansen said.
Hatch's campaign cuts a check to C&C Advisors which is a firm run by Christensen and Parrish who served as Hatch's chief of staff in the early 1980s. And how those two men split up the money from there is up to them, said Hansen.
Parrish said C&C Advisors regularly gives some of that money to GOP candidates, and he and Christensen split the difference. C&C Advisors put on a large golf fund-raiser for Hatch each summer in Utah, meet with the senator and give advice often and also put together a quarterly "kitchen cabinet" seminar with other local advisers and the senator.
So, for just those three people Hansen, Christensen and Parrish Hatch is paying around $200,000 a year what many candidates may spend on their whole congressional campaigns for fund raising, public relations and other political activities.
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