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Campaign tip sheet: Jill Biden comes to Atlanta

By Jim Galloway
Oct 17, 2014

The parade of each party's more popular figures continues Friday with Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, who will be in Atlanta to raise money for the party and Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Michelle Nunn.

Jill Biden will attend an event for the Democratic National Committee at a private Atlanta residence. (On Saturday morning, the vice president's wife will attend a public Hands On Atlanta event with Michelle Nunn, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, at the Fort Street United Methodist Church).

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At 3 p.m. today, Gov. Nathan Deal will attend the official opening of a new Food Technology Center building at the University of Georgia's Griffin campus.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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