{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Mary Ann Parks","chatgptsummary":"Mary Ann Parks has filed required signatures and appears on the official candidate list for the Tennessee Republican State Executive Committee, demonstrating knowledge of ballot-access requirements and party filing procedures. The biography contains no record of controversy or disciplinary action. Bio does not indicate experience in intra-party governance or coordination with county-level committees.","notes":null,"party":"R","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\n\nMary Ann Parks, of White House, is a Republican candidate for Tennessee State Executive Committeewoman, District 23, which covers Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, and Robertson counties and part of Montgomery County [1]. She filed the required signatures (6 of 6) by the March 10, 2026 qualifying deadline, and the Tennessee Secretary of State's office listed her signatures as approved in the March 24, 2026 candidate list [1]. The Republican primary is scheduled for August 6, 2026 [1].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [Candidates for Republican State Executive Committee as of March 24, 2026](https://sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com/s3fs-public/document/TNGOPSEC_Filed_2026-03-24.pdf) \u2014 District 23, p.8, accessed 2026-07-20","firstname":"Mary","lastname":"Parks","middlename":"Ann","suffix":null,"token":"Q0dlWRyQ5q"},"token":"mary_ann_parks"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"party_exec_committee","o.office":null,"office":"tn_exec_committeewoman_23","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 23"}