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Ben Carson reserves June 23 for a public metro Atlanta mixer
Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in his office in Baltimore, Md., March 20, 2013. With a single speech delivered while President Barack Obama looked stonily on, Carson was lofted into the conservative firmament as its newest star: an accomplished black neurosurgeon from Johns Hopkins with the credibility to attack the president on health care. (Matt Roth/The New York Times) Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in his office in Baltimore, Md., in a 2013 NYT photograph.
The parade continues. We're picking up word that Dr. Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon and GOP presidential candidate, will roll into town on June 23.
Details are still being fleshed out, but we're told the public event will occur in the Johns Creek area in north Fulton County.
We're not Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, but clearly the GOP presidential traffic is much heavier than in 2012. Ohio Gov. John Kasich was in Georgia last week, featured at two public events. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Atlanta, but his visit is an invitation-only series of meetings.
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
