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Coleman vs. Coleman

Posted at 3:35 PM on July 10, 2007 by Bob Collins

I'm not a political insider in Minnesota so I wouldn't know a good rumor from a bad one... but I did have to chuckle today when Minnesota Democrats Exposed wrote that DFLers are trying to get St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman to run for Senate against Norm Coleman.

Tim Nelson at City Hall Scoop then wrote a blurb that Minnesota Democrats Exposed was writing that DFLers are trying to get St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman to run for Senate against Norm Coleman. Tim, however, actually talked to Coleman's spokesman who knocked the story down. End of story, right?

Wrong. MDE added to its posting that "Tim Nelson of the Pioneer Press/City Hall Scoop has a post up about a Coleman vs. Coleman battle for the U.S. Senate."

That certainly sounded like a second source, right?

I guess this will now be the third source.

Proposed constitutional amendment: No mayor of St. Paul is allowed to run for anything until he can get a fast food restaurant in the downtown to stay open after 2 p.m.


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