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LIBERAL GROUP DOWNGRADES CHRIS COLEMAN’S CHANCES
By Luke Hellier | October 1, 2009
http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/blog.php?id=1933
7. Chris Coleman (formerly #5): Coleman has the danger of getting bogged down in his mayoral race as the Republicans seem to be trying to create an opening about his potential and clearly unannounced gubernatorial bid. It is a little awkward to bulk up your staff and use generic signs and then try to convince everyone that you are taking it one step at a time. Coleman needs to be careful and not let any of this escalate.
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October 1st, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Apparently mnpact hasn’t been listening to Hiram.
Coleman is ranked behind Marty! That there is funny.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:30 PM
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October 2nd, 2009 at 6:13 AM
I would have never ranked Coleman so highly in the beginning. I view Chris’ and Rybak’s candidacies as mostly vehicles for bringing urban issues into the debate. I don’t take either one seriously as candidates in their own right.
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:30 AM
“I don’t take either one seriously as candidates in their own right”
Hiram, have many posts have you in the past week insisting that Chirs Coleman is not a candidate for Governor?
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Dozens probably. That may really be at the heart of our disagreement. I genuinely don’t think Coleman or Rybak are serious candidates. I think they are around mostly to make sure that cities have a voice and are heard at the various political functions. In this sense, the Republican Party, for whatever reason, takes their candidacies, or prospective candidacies, far more seriously than I do.
In general, I think the city mayors should be visible throughout the state, making the case for their cities, talking about how we all benefit from the prosperity of our cities. This notion that mayors should be confined to municipal boundaries is, I think, a sign of the hostility or perhaps indifference many Minnesotans have toward our cities, and is something which the mayors need to address.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:01 AM
I do disagree with the blog writer linked above. Running for mayor this year may be awkward while the early stages of the gubernatorial campaign are going on, that’s a problem that goes away after November 3rd. Democrats don’t care about this issue. And Republicans who do care, or pretend to care, don’t participate in the DFL nominating process.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Hiram, I think both CC and RT are serious candidates, but neither one has much of a chance of winning.
“Running for mayor this year may be awkward while the early stages of the gubernatorial campaign are going on, that’s a problem that goes away after November 3rd.”
Colemen moved way past awkward when he started using money from his mayoral campaign to run for Governor.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:07 AM
“Colemen moved way past awkward when he started using money from his mayoral campaign to run for Governor.”
Has a single contributor come forward to complain? Sutton and Brodkorb have put a lot of work into that. Have they been able to find one who has a problem with the possibility that a candidate they support for mayor might get elected governor?
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Hiram, Sutton and Brodkorb have been focusing on the illegaties of what Chris Coleman has been doing.
Has a single contributor come forward to support Coleman for using his Mayoral campaign funds to run for Governor?
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 AM
“Has a single contributor come forward to support Coleman for using his Mayoral campaign funds to run for Governor?”
I am sure they would, if asked. I can’t imagine why anyone would make a significant contribution to Coleman’s campaign otherwise.
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Has a single contributor come forward to support Coleman for using his Mayoral campaign funds to run for Governor?
By the way, what statute does that violate?
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 PM
“By the way, what statute does that violate?”
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes/?id=10A.14
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 PM
That’s a statute that talks about registering for governor, not about the use of funds taken from a specific fund.
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:55 PM
The statute is quite clear, Hiram. Even if Coleman claims he was only “borrowing” from the Mayoral fund, he needs to have filed the paperwork to spend that on his Gebernatorial campaign.