Backlash
By Mitch Berg
I got this email from Joe Doakes of Como Park, a government employee in Saint Paul:
St. Paul Mayor Coleman issued a press statement April 28 prohibiting City
agencies from traveling to Arizona, to protest the anti-illegal immigration
steps being taken there. Apparently, Mayor Coleman’s grandmother was an
illegal immigrant from Ireland and he’s taken this stand in her memory, and
urges all of us to do so, as well.
Oh, I will.
Since my six of my eight great-grandparents came here legally, I hereby prohibit all Shot In The Dark employees from going to (flips around finding list of heavily Irish cities) Boston on company money.
I have a week of training coming up in June. I had my option of going to
Orlando or to Phoenix. Personally, I don’t cotton to scofflaws. I think
Mayor Coleman’s position is asinine.I booked the airfare to my training session yesterday . . . to Phoenix.
Thank you, Mayor Coleman, for making my choice so much easier.
I keep pondering commemorating it by being an “illegal alien” to the DFL primaries.
May 7th, 2010 at 9:06 am
press statement April 28 prohibiting City agencies from traveling to Arizona
the tics (and especially Coleman) are such cowards – if they really want to make a statement they should make the boycott/embargo of Arizona a St Paul city ordinance which would have the effect of giving the city leverage with every vendor that does business with AZ and St Paul.
The City could insist you vendors must observe our ordinances in order to do business with us, and our ordinance requires your embargo of AZ.. That could be fun watching St Paul ban 3M, Patterson Dental, Minnesota Life, Ecolab and Travelers.
I think I’ll write to the city council members and recommend they enact such an ordinance.
May 7th, 2010 at 9:38 am
Between last weekend and this upcoming weekend I have shifted about $500 in spending that I had planned to make in St Paul, to the suburbs, online shopping, or just didn’t make a purchase. That isn’t a lot of money for a large city, but I wonder how much the city was going to spend on junkets to Arizona this month.
May 7th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Recently, I was looking on Amazon for DVDs from independent sellers… found a few disks from a place in AZ with a high feedback rating.
Done and done.
Thanks for your jackassary, Mayor Coleman. I’m not shopping in St. Paul anymore.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Looks like I won’t be going to Xcel for awhile now.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:34 am
The Democrat party is the protector of drug smugglers, murderers, human traffikers, prostitution and illegal immigration.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:38 am
I hope that everyone has already contacted Coleman’s office to let them know about our boycott, but if you haven’t:
Shoot him a kite:
https://www.stpaul.gov/forms.aspx?FID=69
Or better yet, call his terrified underlings!
(651) 266-8510
May 7th, 2010 at 11:45 am
By the way, if you avoid a business in St. Paul, you should contact them and let them know where you spent your money instead.
I called “The Muddy Pig” today to let them know I spent $200 for my wife’s birthday dinner at Axel’s in Mendota that would have absolutely been spent with them if they didn’t have a moron for a mayor.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:48 am
I called his terrified underlings. I am officially boycotting St. Paul.
I’ll still read SITD, however.
May 7th, 2010 at 11:56 am
I took someones advice and emailed the St Paul Chamber of Commerce. I included a list of the businesses that I had planned to spend money at last weekend, but didn’t but didn’t because of Coleman.
I am going to Petsmart instead of Petco tonight (PetsMart is a Arizona company….the PetCo I had planned to go to is in Highland Park).
May 7th, 2010 at 11:57 am
swiftee…..Axel’s is quite a fine place anyway.
May 7th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Yeah Chuck, well, just because I’m fighting it out in the trenches doesn’t mean suffering need be involved…heh.
We got comp’d a $9.00 slice of chocolate [birthday] cake to take home too!
Good info on PetsMart!
Mitch, you should get a list together of Saint Paul businesses people have snubbed because of Mayor McMoron…use your bully pulpit to do some bullying!
May 7th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
I’ve stayed away from Cosetta… which is a great place to get food, but alas it is in Chris Coleman’s city.
May 7th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
The last time I spent money in St Paul was 2008 for a model train show at Xcel. It’s ridiculously easy for me to avoid that city.
May 7th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Ho, ho, say there Mitch, isn’t that a St. Paul techie firm you’re biking to everyday or somesuch? I’m sure you’ll be pointing all your prospective clients to companies in Dungheap, AZ, no? That’ll show Mayor Chris! TEABAGGERS: RELEASE THE KRAKEN
May 7th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
St. Paul must be doing GREAT if the mayor has time to concentrate on Arizona laws and the enforcement of those laws!!!!
May 7th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
TEABAGGERS: RELEASE THE KRAKEN
The sign Twerp in StP holds while protesting on the capital lawn…supine….with his jaws agape.
May 7th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Those spread cheeks aren’t the ones you are thinking of, Swiftee.
May 8th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
TstP expect much higher taxes in your city thanks to your idiot mayor. Doesn’t he have more important things to worry about?
May 8th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Ho, ho, say there Mitch, isn’t that a St. Paul techie firm you’re biking to everyday or somesuch? I’m sure you’ll be pointing all your prospective clients to companies in Dungheap, AZ, no?
No, I like to make money. But let’s just say that my CEO is not a big Chris Coleman fan.
That’ll show Mayor Chris! TEABAGGERS: RELEASE THE KRAKEN
Not being a nerd, I don’t get the “kraken” references everyone is babbling about lately.
May 9th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Mitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-EIIFaF1Ns
Oh so pithy attempt at trying to link the conservative resurgence with that.