With Jason Carter as speaker for their 2015 Independence Gala, Bulloch County Democrats ended up hearing from the Carter Center’s incoming chairman at an emotionally charged time for the first family of the Democratic Party in Georgia. When invited to speak, Carter, 40, was best known as last year’s Democratic nominee for governor. Then his grandfather, President Jimmy Carter, 90, revealed in a press conference Thursday that a previously treated cancer has spread to his brain.
In the steps of Jimmy Carter
Jason Carter talks about famous grandfathers illness, carrying on works of Carter Center


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