The price to become one of Utah’s Top 25 individual political donors reached lofty heights this election cycle: nearly $100,000 each in contributions.
The No. 1 donor — Dave Bateman, an ultraconservative Republican who is co-founder of Entrata software company — contributed a titanic $777,454, a quarter-million dollars more than No. 2 donor Gail Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz.
That is according to analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune of federal and state disclosure forms for donations to candidates, parties, political action committees and political issue committees (the groups that fund ballot initiatives) filed through July 31.