…is that Chris Coleman might be getting a serious challenger in the next mayoral race. 

The Coleman Administration, according to Saint Paulicy, has bobbled a key bit of union-relations; SPicy relates a meeting between the Mayor’s staff and union officials that lasted, reportedly, one minute:

Union leaders spent little time getting to the issue at hand and opened the meeting with a pointed question about Mayor Coleman’s willingness to discuss “outsourcing” (SPicy had always wondered what happened to Compete Saint Paul).  New Deputy Mayor Mulholland apparently tried evade a direct answers to the question.  And as quickly as the meeting started – the leadership from Laborers Local 132 walked out the door.

One trip around the clock for the second hand and they had heard enough.
Unfortunately it doesn’t take sixty seconds to understand the options left for unions in how they deal with the Coleman administration. 

The bad news?  The challenger will likely be to Coleman’s left.   

SPicy now believes that when a challenger for the Mayor emerges to his political left – there will be a receptive group of union members ready to take up the cause.

That’s right, world; in the world of Saint Paul politics, Chris Coleman is the middle.