A Better Bedford PAC Reports $70,859.32 in Spending Across Three 2026 Filings

Which records this report covers

We located A BETTER BEDFORD PAC in the Tennessee public campaign-finance search, then read its report list and original full reports. The list showed three 2026 reports as of October 11: 1st Quarter, submitted April 10; 2nd Quarter, submitted July 9; and Pre-Primary, submitted July 29.

The state PAC schedule assigns those periods January 16–March 31, April 1–June 30 and July 1–27. This review therefore covers January 16–July 27, 2026. It is not a full calendar-year total. It excludes January 1–15, earlier fundraising, later activity, and any subsequent amendment.

The public search identifies committee ID 10433, a creation date of May 11, 2023, and Troy Brewer as treasurer. A disclosure is the filer’s reported account of transactions; it is not an independent bank audit.

The cash reconciliation, report by report

Sources: original reports 125785, 126908 and 127108. Each ending balance equals beginning balance plus receipts minus disbursements, and it matches the following report’s beginning balance.

Our cross-report calculation is $127,096.89 + $4,000.00 − $70,859.32 = $60,237.57. The decline from the opening balance is $66,859.32. Spending above new receipts in this reviewed window draws down the reported opening balance; it does not itself establish debt or a reporting violation.

The three reports show zero outstanding loan balances, zero outstanding obligations and zero in-kind contributions. Those fields describe these filings only. The July 27 ending balance is not verified cash on October 11.

Payments to candidate-named payees

The table groups the original disbursement rows by their printed payee names. It does not independently establish recipient account ownership, county, party, election designation or a matching deposit in a candidate’s filing.

Sources: 1st Quarter and 2nd Quarter. Twelve itemized payments contribute to this table. No individual payment is counted twice.

Original analysis — why the grouping matters: a tally of only rows whose purpose is CONTRIBUTION produces $49,000. The February 24 payment of $5,000 to BRIAN BRUCE FOR COUNTY COMMISSION is labeled DONATIONS. Including that separately disclosed row in a payee-based comparison produces $54,000. We preserve both numbers and their definitions. This is an editorial grouping, not a correction to the state’s filing or a legal conclusion about classification.

The filings spell two payees MARK BRYANT and NIKIA ELLIOT. The PAC’s endorsement statement uses Mark McBryant and Nikia Elliott. This extract retains the filing spellings rather than silently merging names. The recipient side of these transactions has not been independently reconciled.

Consulting, video, accounting and filing-fee payments

The remaining six disbursement rows total $16,859.32.

Sources: 1st Quarter and 2nd Quarter. Consulting accounts for $15,000 of this subtotal. The candidate-named payee grouping plus these other rows reconciles to the reported disbursements: $54,000 + $16,859.32 = $70,859.32.

The purpose descriptions establish what the filer reported. They do not identify the content of every advertisement, the work covered by each contract, or a beneficiary for each consulting payment. We do not reclassify the consulting or video rows as independent expenditures without additional evidence.

Who supplied the $4,000 in reviewed receipts?

Source: 1st Quarter report. All four rows are retained because the official report lists them separately. Matching names, dates and amounts alone are not sufficient grounds to delete a filed row as a duplicate.

These two contributors account for the $4,000 received in the reviewed periods. They are not presented as the only donors over the PAC’s lifetime or as the source of its entire opening balance. We did not review the earlier funding history for this article. A donor-to-PAC transaction also does not trace a particular dollar to a particular recipient payment.

PAC activity and Republican Party activity are different records

In an announcement dated April 15, 2026, A Better Bedford said it supported Jared Featherstone and Mark McBryant for District 1 County Commission and Nikia Elliott for sheriff in the Republican county primary. The organization describes itself as nonpartisan. That is the PAC’s attributed statement, not an endorsement issued by the Bedford County Republican Party.

A payment, an endorsement, a party nomination and an election result answer different questions. This article does not infer a payee’s Republican affiliation from a committee name or from the PAC’s support. The Republicans and election center retains the separate party-source labels.

Local analysis: readers interested in public spending and accountable government can use this ledger to ask documented questions about political funding. The filings alone do not establish a connection between a contribution and a government contract, vote or policy decision.

October 13 is the next PAC quarterly deadline

The Registry’s 2026 PAC schedule sets October 13 for the third-quarter report covering July 28–September 30. Its next pre-general deadline is October 27, covering October 1–24.

On our October 11 check, the public report list’s latest entry was the July 29 pre-primary filing. That observation is not a claim that a third-quarter report is late: the published deadline had not arrived. Any later filing, amendment or interim report needs its own review before these figures are updated.

This page records the next editorial check; it does not claim a new automatic monitoring schedule.

Download the source-linked extract

Download the 22-row transaction CSV or the complete reviewed JSON extract. Both retain report IDs, filing links, dates, amounts and original purpose labels. The JSON also includes the three report summaries and explicit coverage dates.

This is a selected-field transcription, not a replacement for a filed report. Street addresses, personal contact details and unrelated disclosure fields are omitted. Each of the four receipt rows and eighteen disbursement rows is retained. Row identifiers are editorial identifiers, not identifiers assigned by the state.

The extract uses Worth Fighting Dataset Terms. Consult the linked issuing sources for original filings and later amendments.

How to reproduce the review in the state database

1. Open Tennessee’s public search and choose Search for Candidates and PACs.
2. Select PACs, enter A Better Bedford, and run the search.
3. Open the report list for A BETTER BEDFORD PAC, committee 10433.
4. Select the three 2026 reports: 125785, 126908 and 127108.
5. Compare original row labels and totals with the download. Check the report list for later filings and amendments.

Direct report links may land on a login or search page when opened outside a public-search session. That does not establish that the record is private or absent; use the public-search path above. We successfully read all three full official reports through that path.

Who Funds Tennessee helped locate the report IDs. All published transaction figures were checked against the original state reports. The Bedford campaign-finance guide explains where candidate-side records are held and how to compare them without double counting.

Frequently asked questions

How much did A Better Bedford PAC spend in the reviewed 2026 reports?

The first-quarter, second-quarter and pre-primary reports total $70,859.32 in disbursements for the reviewed January 16–July 27 periods.

Why does this article show both $49,000 and $54,000?

Rows labeled CONTRIBUTION total $49,000. A separate $5,000 DONATIONS row has a candidate-named payee. Our payee-based grouping includes both, totaling $54,000, while retaining the original labels.

Is $60,237.57 the PAC’s current cash balance?

No. It is the ending balance in the reviewed pre-primary report through July 27, 2026. Current bank funds and later activity were not independently verified.

Is A Better Bedford PAC the Bedford County Republican Party?

The PAC describes itself as nonpartisan and issued its own Republican-primary endorsement statement. Its statements and financial reports must not be relabeled as county-party actions.

Was the third-quarter PAC report overdue on October 11?

The published 2026 PAC deadline is October 13. The absence of that report from our October 11 review does not establish a missed deadline.

Sources and access notes

Official report links can redirect to a login or search screen without an active public-search session. Use the public-search instructions in this article; no filer account is needed to read public records.

1. Tennessee public campaign-finance search
2. Official PAC report list — public-search session may be required
3. Report 125785 — first quarter, filed April 10
4. Report 126908 — second quarter, filed July 9
5. Report 127108 — pre-primary, filed July 29
6. Tennessee 2026 PAC reporting periods and deadlines
7. PAC’s own April endorsement statement — organization source
8. Registry search scope and limitations

Update log and next records

October 11, 2026 — First edition, Phase 9. Reviewed reports 125785, 126908 and 127108; reconciled 22 itemized rows; published the original purpose labels and a downloadable data extract. The latest report in the reviewed list was submitted July 29. The next listed PAC quarterly deadline is October 13.

Updates require a later filing, an amendment, an issuing-office clarification or additional recipient-side records. A future deadline is not a completed filing.

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