{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Mike Bryant","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"R","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nMike Bryant is a candidate for State Executive Committeeman, District 25 in the 2026 Tennessee election (Crockett County).\n","firstname":"Mike","lastname":"Bryant","middlename":null,"suffix":null,"token":"IeMxOlMfDU"},"token":"mike_bryant"},{"candidatename":"Byron Elam","chatgptsummary":"Byron Elam's biography shows he filed for the Tennessee State Executive Committee seat in District 25 and met signature requirements by March 2026, demonstrating basic knowledge of party filing rules and ballot access procedures. The record does not indicate prior experience serving on county or state party committees, nor does it show experience coordinating with the party chair or managing intra-party governance matters.","notes":null,"party":"D","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nByron Elam is a Democratic candidate for Tennessee State Executive Committeeman, District 25, which covers Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Henderson, Lake, Madison, and Perry counties [1]. He filed for the seat from Jackson by the March 10, 2026 qualifying deadline, and his petition's required signatures were approved, per the Tennessee Secretary of State's official Democratic State Executive Committee candidate list published March 24, 2026 [1].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [Candidates for Democratic State Executive Committee as of March 24, 2026 - Tennessee Secretary of State](https://sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com/s3fs-public/document/TNDPSEC_Filed_2026-03-24.pdf) - accessed 2026-07-20","firstname":"Byron","lastname":"Elam","middlename":null,"suffix":null,"token":"vFPZpcMfZL"},"token":"byron_elam"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"party_exec_committee","o.office":null,"office":"tn_exec_committeeman_25","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 Committeeman District 25"}