Kasim Reed rules out a 2018 run for governor
Over at 11Alive, Doug Richards reports Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed as saying he's all but ruled out a 2018 run for governor – given that he's a family man now with a wife and daughter to support.
From the TV station’s transcript:
Reed: It's not my plan right now. My plan right now in 2018 is to be in the private sector.
The question, as Katie Leslie -- the AJC's ear at City Hall -- correctly points out, is the meaning of "right now."
Reed also spoke about an upcoming fundraiser he’s putting together for Jason Carter, the Democratic nominee for governor, with whom the mayor has kept at arm’s length. The mayor couldn’t help inserting a small dig. Again:
Reed: Pretty much. I mean Jason and I have been at events together... you know he's the nominee. I said that I was going to support the nominee of the party and I'm getting ready to do more for Jason Carter more than he ever did for me.
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
