NEWS BRIEF: Could Kolbey Gardner become Georgia’s first openly gay lieutenant governor?

Kolbey Gardner
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Clark Atlanta University graduate Kolbey Gardner is aiming to be Georgia’s first openly gay lieutenant governor. Gardner, 30, is a Democratic strategist and author who started in politics working for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and then joined Peter Aman’s 2017 race for Atlanta mayor. “Georgia, over the course of the last decade or more, has become one of the most diverse states in the nation,” he told Project Q Atlanta. projectq.us