Cobb GOP Chairwoman Salleigh Grubbs got a call late Friday.
“And (the caller) said, ‘I really want to come meet my constituents in Cobb County and be sure that they hear from me and know who I am and understand what we’re going to do in Cobb County in the area I now have,’” Grubbs recalled.
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