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Kasim Reed Launches Comeback Atlanta Mayor Run

June 9, 2021 at 10:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Kasim Reed, who fulfilled his lifelong goal by becoming mayor of Atlanta by the age of 40 and who then left City Hall eight years later under a cloud of controversy and investigation, has officially entered the wide-open mayor’s race,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

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