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Michelle Nunn on Monday quietly wrapped up an 11-city tour intended to introduce her as a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Atlanta, an event overshadowed first by the Andrea Sneiderman sentencing – then the armed gunman in a DeKalb County school.

A score of volunteers joined Nunn in reading to a group of first-graders at Drew Charter School in the East Lake community. The candidate was introduced by Comer Yates, a former Democratic candidate for Congress in the 1990s and the husband of U.S. Attorney Sally Yates.

Comer Yates is now executive director of the Atlanta Speech School.

At each event, Nunn has met with volunteers from local communities – a way of emphasizing her background as former CEO of an organization dedicated to volunteer service. She has stayed away from specific issues – so we hit her up with a pair of questions after the event.

First, there’s the matter of the push among some Republicans to defund Obamacare – or shut down the federal government. Several of Nunn’s GOP rivals have endorsed such a path. Said Nunn:

“I think that’s a perfect example of what’s not working with Washington. I really don’t think the American people want to see their lawmakers at paralysis, at total obstructionism, instead of legislating and working out compromises – threatening to shut down the government in a way that’s actually quite hurtful to the larger economy.

“Which creates uncertainty for businesses, and certainly sends the signal both here and abroad that our political leadership is not able to govern, to budget, to actually implement laws that have been decided upon. I think it sends all the wrong signals.”

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