{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Rob Ross","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"REP","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nRobert Allan Ross, known as Rob Ross, is the incumbent Republican commissioner representing District 2 on the Dare County Board of Commissioners. His district covers Nags Head, Colington, and Kill Devil Hills. Ross won re-election decisively in the March 2026 Republican primary.\n\n## Background and education\nRoss holds a Bachelor of Science in finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration from Xavier University.\n\n## Career\nRoss has 36 years of financial management experience. His career included senior roles at Procter and Gamble, PepsiCo, Shasta Beverages, and Carlson Companies. He retired in 2011 as Chief Financial Officer of Limited Brands International, a division of L Brands. He has owned property in Dare County since 1992 and moved to Nags Head full time in 2013.\n\nRoss serves as Chair of the Dare County Audit Committee, the Capital Improvements Planning Committee, and the 5 on 5 Committee, a joint body with the Dare County Board of Education.\n\n## Sources\n- [1] [Rob Ross \u2013 Candidate for Dare County Board of Commissioners, District 2 \u2013 The Coastland Times](https://www.thecoastlandtimes.com/news/rob-ross-candidate-for-dare-county-board-of-commissioners-district-2-96f44c4c)\n","firstname":"Robert","lastname":"Ross","middlename":"Allan","suffix":null,"token":"9bb1f04acb695681"},"token":"zuLbYawjs18Uk83T"},{"candidatename":"Christian Thomas Hayman","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"REP","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nChristian Thomas Hayman ran as a Republican candidate for Dare County Board of Commissioners, District 2, in the March 3, 2026 primary. He lost to Rob Ross, 4,111 votes to 2,172. Hayman will not appear on the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot [1].\n\n## Background\nAccording to the North Carolina voter file, Christian Thomas Hayman is a registered voter, registered since 2016 (10 years), with party affiliation listed as Republican [2]. The voter file shows a year of birth of 1998; NC publishes only the year of birth in its bulk voter export, so day and month are not part of the public record [2]. The voter history file shows 5 elections voted in since 2016, most recently the 2026-03-03 primary election [3].\n\n## Sources\n[1] North Carolina State Board of Elections, certified March 3, 2026 primary results by precinct (`results_pct_20260303.txt`), published at [dl.ncsbe.gov](https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/ENRS/2026_03_03/results_pct_20260303.zip) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-21\n[2] [North Carolina State Board of Elections \u2014 Voter Search](https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/)\n[3] North Carolina State Board of Elections voter history file (`ncvhis_Statewide`), published at [dl.ncsbe.gov](https://dl.ncsbe.gov/)\n","firstname":"Christian","lastname":"Hayman","middlename":"Thomas","suffix":null,"token":"757340661466e2d9"},"token":"WXqdnvfLZ5y73gyn"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"county_commissioner","o.office":"county_commission","office":"county_commission","officedescription":"A county commissioner is a member of the county's legislative body. The commission approves the county budget, sets the property-tax rate, authorizes borrowing, and passes county resolutions and ordinances. Commissioners are elected from districts (or at-large seats) to represent constituents on countywide policy.","officequalities":"- Policy judgment on countywide matters \u2014 budget, taxes, land use, services, and intergovernmental issues \u2014 within Tennessee county-government law.\n- Budget literacy: the commission approves the county budget, sets the property-tax rate, and authorizes multi-year bond issues.\n- Legislative process: drafting, amending, and voting on resolutions and ordinances; committee work that pre-screens items.\n- Constituent relations in the district \u2014 case-work and community issues flow through the commissioner's office.\n- Willingness to complete the state-required annual continuing education through UT CTAS.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"County Commissioner","partisan":1,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"Dare County Board Of Commissioners District 02"}