An Ogden City Council candidate accepted $14,200 in PAC-routed contributions tied to a far-right Arizona pastor, in an apparent effort to get around Ogden’s strict campaign donation limits using a convoluted workaround according to public filings and city officials.
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On his most recent financial disclosure, District 1 candidate Jase Reyneveld, who is running for the open Ogden City Council seat against Flor Lopez, reported three donations from a political action committee dubbed “Taxpayers PAC” totaling $14,200. Ogden City caps campaign contributions to city council candidates of $1,500 per person.
According to Ogden City officials, Reyneveld’s campaign was attempting to argue that a political action committee was legally not a “person,” and therefore not subject to the $1,500 limit. After Ogden officials informed him that Utah election law specifically includes PACs in the definition of “person,” Reyneveld agreed to return the amount over the cap.
Public records suggest the donations from the PAC were part of a scheme to route money into Reyneveld’s campaign above the legal limit in a way to obscure the original source—a far-right Arizona pastor with business ties to Reyneveld’s father. Those donations then paid the political consultants running Reyneveld’s campaign. Those same consultants also set up the PAC in the first place.
On October 3, public filings show that David Reece made a $15,000 donation to Taxpayers PAC. The committee then made three separate donations of $7,200, $3,000 and $4,000 to Jase Reyneveld’s campaign in the span of 9 days from October 6 to October 14.
Reece is a Christian nationalist and pastor of the Puritan Reformed Church in Phoenix, Arizona. He preaches that Christian men, not women, have a “duty” to build up wealth in order to take public office and “rule.” He also argues that government should enforce the Ten Commandments and that anyone who wants to become a citizen of the U.S. should be required to take a “covenant” to uphold an official religion.
Additionally, Reece runs Reece Fund, an investment firm to back “Christian companies,” and owns several companies, including Armored Republic, which produces body armor.
Reece is also listed as the president of Suncoast Glass Holdings, which was incorporated in Arizona in 2024. According to business records, one of the directors of that corporation is Daniel Reyneveld.
There’s little information about what Suncoast Glass Holdings does. Articles of incorporation filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission say that the company “is formed for the glory of God according to scripture alone, and to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Arizona Business Corporation Act.”
The website for Jase Reyneveld’s business, Alpine Gold Ogden, notes that Dan Reyneveld is Jase’s father and lists him as an “Advisory Board member & investor.” Business records also show Daniel Reyneveld is named as a member of “Sovereign Financial Investments, LLC,” which also lists Jase Reyneveld as an officer.
Jase Reyneveld did not respond to questions from Utah Political Watch about whether he was attempting to obscure Reece’s donation to his campaign by funneling it through Taxpayers PAC. Reece also did not respond to questions.
Reyneveld’s disclosure filings show he paid Red Mountain Direct, a Layton-based political consulting firm, a total of $29,434 for campaign consulting, yard signs, printing and mailers since July.
The founder of Red Mountain Direct is Zach Lautenschlager, who is also listed as the president of Taxpayers PAC, the organization that routed the donations from Reece to Reyneveld’s campaign.
Lautenschlager did not answer questions about the unusual financial structure from Utah Political Watch.
If you remove the illegal PAC donations to his campaign, Reyneveld’s effort is almost entirely self funded. So far, he loaned nearly $17,000 to his operation. His father donated $1,500 in October and another $1,500 came from the firm he co-owns with his father. So far, his campaign raised $850 from sources not connected to his family, and he may retain up to $1,500 of the PAC’s contributions under the city’s per-person cap.
