Brooke Carbo never intended to become a politician.
Carbo, an Anniston resident, staff member at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and former Anniston Star copy editor, said she was looking for a way to be involved in the community when she volunteered last year for the Senate campaign for Doug Jones.
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