{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Larawn Scaife","chatgptsummary":"Scaife Rhea's background includes a marketing degree, service on a college alumni board, and freelance journalism with bylines at major Tennessee publications. The biography contains no record of controversy or disciplinary action. Bio does not indicate experience in intra-party governance or knowledge of state election law and party rules.","notes":null,"party":"R","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nLaRawn Scaife Rhea is a candidate for the Tennessee Republican Party's State Executive Committee, District 21, in the 2026 primary (Davidson County).\n\n## Background and career\nScaife Rhea grew up in Nashville, where her father, music industry executive Cecil Scaife, promoted the careers of artists including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Charlie Rich [1]. She holds a degree in Marketing with a concentration in Psychology from Belmont College and served on the Belmont Alumni Board [1]. She has worked as a freelance photographer and journalist; Muck Rack credits her with bylines at The Tennessean and The Leaf-Chronicle [2][3].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [LaRawn Scaife Rhea \u2013 Constituting America](https://constitutingamerica.org/larawn-scaife-rhea/)\n[2] [LaRawn Scaife Rhea's Profile | Muck Rack](https://muckrack.com/larawn-scaife-rhea)\n[3] [Articles by LaRawn Scaife Rhea | Muck Rack](https://muckrack.com/larawn-scaife-rhea/articles)","firstname":"Larawn","lastname":"Scaife","middlename":null,"suffix":null,"token":"URpXOkL3p0"},"token":"larawn_scaife"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"party_exec_committee","o.office":null,"office":"tn_exec_committeewoman_21","officedescription":"The State Executive Committee is the elected governing body of a Tennessee political party (Democratic or Republican). It is a party-organization office, not a government office \u2014 its members set party rules and organization, and are chosen by voters in that party's primary.","officequalities":"- Intra-party governance: the State Executive Committee is the elected governing body of a Tennessee political party, not a public office that legislates or administers government.\n- Working knowledge of party rules, conventions, ballot-access requirements, and how the party interacts with state election law.\n- Coordination with the party chair and county-level party committees.\n- This is a partisan party-organization role; voters in the party's primary choose the committee members. The qualities here describe party-organization fit, not government competency.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"State Executive Committee","partisan":1,"pgr":"primary","quantity":null,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"TN State Executive Committeewoman District 21"}