{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Steven P. Rader","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"REP","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\n\nSteven Palmer Rader is a Republican incumbent on the Beaufort County Board of Education representing District 6, based in Washington, NC. He filed for re-election and ran in the 2026 Republican primary against Monica Davis.\n\n## Background and education\n\nRader earned a B.A. in Political Science from Duke University and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, passing the North Carolina bar in 1978.\n\n## Career\n\nRader built a career spanning law, Republican Party leadership, and international political consulting. He served for five years as General Counsel of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services under Governor Jim Martin, and separately spent four years as Beaufort County Republican Party chairman, seven years as First Congressional District Republican chairman, and six years as a state Republican Party officer. In the 2000s and 2010s, he conducted extensive democracy-building work in the Republic of Moldova, running training seminars for newly elected local officials and heading a U.S. Department of State-funded project related to the 2014 Moldovan parliamentary election. He is a part-time instructor at Beaufort County Community College teaching State and Local Government.\n\n## Sources\n\n- [1] [Steven Rader files for School Board District 6 \u2013 Eastern NC Now](https://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/93501/steven-rader-files-for-school-board-district-6.html)","firstname":"Steven","lastname":"Rader","middlename":"Palmer","suffix":null,"token":"e6725a5121603484"},"token":"O2jRF6JDtwBhFDfW"},{"candidatename":"Monica Davis","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"REP","person":{"biography":"According to the North Carolina voter file, Monica Moore Davis is a registered voter in Beaufort County, North Carolina, registered since 1990 (36 years), with party affiliation listed as Republican [1].\n\nThe voter file shows Monica Moore Davis's year of birth as 1972; NC publishes only the year of birth in its bulk voter export, so day and month are not part of the public record [1].\n\nThe voter history file shows 9 elections voted in since 2016, most recently the 2026-03-03 primary election [2].\n\nThis summary draws only from the public North Carolina voter registration and history records. No additional published biographical information was located. Voters with personal knowledge of Monica Moore Davis can reach ballotproject.org with corrections or additions.\n\n## Sources\n[1] [North Carolina State Board of Elections \u2014 Voter Search](https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/)\n\n[2] North Carolina State Board of Elections voter history file (`ncvhis_Statewide`), published at [dl.ncsbe.gov](https://dl.ncsbe.gov/)","firstname":"Monica","lastname":"Davis","middlename":"Moore","suffix":null,"token":"9b18c1de2f096f0d"},"token":"wD050DY8wLyaXeKj"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"school_board","o.office":"county_school_board","office":"county_school_board","officedescription":"A school board member serves on the elected body that governs a public school district. The board sets district policy and budget priorities and hires and evaluates the superintendent, while leaving day-to-day management to the administration.","officequalities":"- Policy judgment for a public school district \u2014 setting direction while leaving day-to-day management to the superintendent.\n- Budget literacy for operating and capital budgets, in coordination with the county commission (which appropriates) and the state.\n- Ability to hire, evaluate, and when necessary replace the superintendent \u2014 the board's highest-stakes recurring decision.\n- Constituent relations with parents, teachers, principals, and community members.\n- Willingness to complete the state-required annual training through the Tennessee School Boards Association.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"County School Board Member","partisan":1,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"Beaufort County Board Of Education District 06"}