…is that Chris Coleman might be getting a serious challenger in the next mayoral race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0minute<\/em>:<\/p>\n 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).\u00a0 New Deputy Mayor Mulholland apparently tried evade a direct answers to the question.\u00a0 And as quickly as the meeting started – the leadership from Laborers Local 132 walked out the door.<\/p>\n One trip around the clock for the second hand\u00a0and they had heard enough. The bad news?\u00a0 The challenger will likely be to Coleman’s left.\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s right, world; in the world of Saint Paul politics, Chris Coleman is the middle.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …is that Chris Coleman might be getting a serious challenger in the next mayoral race.\u00a0 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\u00a0minute: Union leaders spent little time getting to the issue at hand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUnfortunately it doesn’t take sixty seconds to understand the options left for unions in how they deal with the Coleman administration.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n