BOB SMITH FOR CONGRESS

RepublicanFEC reportedHouse campaign committee · Principal campaign committee · Quarterly filerC00898882

Overview

Raised: $346.7K
Spent: $289.5K
Cash on hand: $57.2K
Debts owed: $32.6K

OpenFEC processed totals through Oct 14, 2026; figures change when amended reports are filed.

Raised is total receipts and Spent is total disbursements as the committee reported them; both can include transfers, loans and refunds. Cash on hand and debts are the balances at the end of the last report. The comparison is the same figure for 2023–2024.

Compliance review · No open linked indicators

Automated review indicators, not findings of a violation. Exact reported records are linked; identity is not independently verified. Reported lobbyist-bundling disclosures are not counted as issues.

Latest cycle-wide scan: Oct 18, 2026 · Index refreshed: Oct 18, 2026. Coverage is limited to loaded records and implemented checks.

Scan coverage and freshness

Receipt eligibility: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).
Integrity: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check succeeded (Oct 18, 2026).
Fundraising patterns: last successful scan Oct 18, 2026 · latest scheduled check skipped (Oct 18, 2026).

No open indicators are linked in the published index. This is not a compliance clearance.

Across the cycle, some findings could not be linked safely to entities; ambiguous identities are withheld.

Candidate connections

Principal candidate campaign
SMITH, ROBERT BOB JRepublicanFEC reported
U.S. House · California · District 24
Election 2026 · Challenger · Current candidate
Candidate details & sources
FEC candidate ID: H6CA24345 · 2025–2026 reporting cycle

Money in

Sources

Itemized individual contributions$261.6K
Unitemized individual contributions$42.3K
Other committees$2,500
Party committees$6,286
Candidate contributions$3,832

Top contributors

SMITH, ROBERT$12.7K17 contributions
SMITH, ROBERT JEFFREY$11.1K2 contributions
FIRESTONE, BROOKSRepublicanDerived from contributions$7,7503 contributions
AUSPITZ, REUBEN

Money out

Spending by kind

Operating expenditures$284.7K
Contribution refunds$2,500
Other disbursements$2,290

Largest disbursements

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTERS$11.5KBALLOT STATEMENT · Feb 17, 2026
HOIDAL, TROY G.$6,882FUNDRAISING CONSULTING · May 5, 2026
WALSH, MORGAN$6,400COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL MEDIA SERVICES · Jun 12, 2026
CITIBUSINESS CARD$6,036CREDIT CARD PAYMENT: STRATEGIC CONSULTING, PHONE AND EMAIL SERVICE · Mar 17, 2026
CITIBUSINESS CARD$6,036CREDIT CARD PAYMENT: FUNDRAISING AND DATA · Mar 4, 2026
PARAMOUNT COMMUNICATIONS$6,000STRATEGIC CONSULTING · Apr 1, 2025
CITIBUSINESS CARD$5,571STRATEGIC CONSULTING AND SOFTWARE · Jan 6, 2026
CITIBUSINESS CARD$5,329CREDIT CARD PAYMENT: STRATEGIC CONSULTING, PHONE AND EMAIL SERVICE · Feb 6, 2026

Over time

Itemized receipts and reported spending by month

Money network · top contributors and recipients as a graph

Records

Registration

Committee type: House campaign committee
Designation: Principal campaign committee
Party affiliation: Republican
Treasurer: LAWLER, KELLY
Filing cadence: Quarterly filer
Organization type: Not reported
Connected organization: Not reported
Registration snapshot cycle: 2025–2026
Cycles loaded: 2026
Registered address: PO BOX 187 · CARPINTERIA, CA, 93013

Relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Registration evidence · 2025–2026

Reported relationships are not contributions or transfers. They do not establish that any money changed hands. The reporting committee and related entity are shown separately. Only loaded relationship types are shown; this is not a complete organization chart.

BOB SMITH FOR CONGRESSC00898882 Authorized candidateSMITH, ROBERT BOB JH6CA24345
FEC reportedLoaded: Sep 7, 2026Official FEC source ↗
Cycle-specific FEC candidate–committee linkage. The date is local ingestion, not the original filing date.

FEC-reported relationships

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Political alignment

Registration, linked-candidate, and disclosed money-flow evidence

Evidence-based classificationRepublican affiliation reportedRepublicanFEC reported

FEC registration: House campaign committee; Republican affiliation reported. Classification basis: FEC reported. This describes disclosed financial activity, not an official party registration or ideological score. The figures below separately preserve the filer’s Schedule E support and opposition designations.

No candidate support/oppose spending foundThis cycle has no locally ingested Schedule E rows for this committee. Registration, linked-candidate, committee-transfer, and recipient-reported conduit evidence can still establish the alignment shown above.

$0 supporting · $0 opposing · 0 rowsOfficial FEC outside spending ↗

Reported counterparty	Date	Reported value	Asset / units	Reported purpose	Source
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY (FEDERAL ACCT.C00174334)	May 21, 2026	$1,286	Other in-kind	IN KIND: TEXT MESSAGINGDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 7967201a5f68761fefb416c8b2d3aac228aab73e06d055d76c443bc81c19983b Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
GILLESPIE, LORI	May 19, 2026	$750	Other in-kind	IN KIND: EVENT VENUE FOR CAMPAIGN EVENTDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row 37e00fe309a7fc59e0988f41380cbd25a61bd3bae40358ecb312068b683fb583 Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
GILLESPIE, ROBERT	May 19, 2026	$750	Other in-kind	IN KIND: EVENT VENUE FOR CAMPAIGN EVENTDerived classification: in-kind-offset	FEC filing ↗ Provenance FEC reported description · source row d4634e73d939fa8c3fab8d1c8d12d648cc354d8d6b93d8eadd661ef08b2e246e Raw artifact: data/raw/fec/bulk/cycle=2026/dataset=operating_expenditures/d6108c0a87ca0a02a72d333e1c0fad879a14af446f39504772d0d9369940ee7a.zip
SMITH, ROBERT

Month	Raised	Spent
Mar 25	$11,104	$0
Apr 25	$3,275	$0
Jun 25	$10,000	$0
Jul 25	$1,950	$350
Aug 25	$12,500	$0
Sep 25	$2,400	$175
Oct 25	$18,600	$0
Nov 25	$3,500	$0
Dec 25	$5,200	$0
Jan 26	$5,100	$0
Feb 26	$21,233	$0
Mar 26	$42,343	$0
Apr 26	$3,932	$0
May 26	$15,192	$0
Jun 26	$4,357	$0

BOB SMITH FOR CONGRESS

Overview

Candidate connections

Money in

Sources

Top contributors

Money out

Spending by kind

Largest disbursements

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Records

FEC-reported relationships

FEC-reported relationships

Political alignment

FEC-reported relationships

Top employers

Top industries

Top states

Cash, assets & liabilities

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Money network