ENDORSEMENT OF CHRIS COLEMAN BY GEORGE LATIMER
I am supporting Chris because he will be the kind of mayor St. Paul needs again.
I trust Chris to invest in our people and neighborhoods. He is a bridge builder who knows that business and commerce flourish where neighborhoods are valued and where small businesses co-exist with corporate giants. As a city council member, he gave more than lip service to affordable housing, he forged the policy.
I trust Chris to be a champion for our kids. St. Paul needs a mayor that invests in our public schools. His kids are in the St. Paul Public Schools and you can’t be much more invested than that. He supported the school referendum when the mayor didn’t, and he will work with the school board, which the mayor hasn’t.
I trust Chris to deliver on transit. I know Chris will work with our neighborhoods, business community, state legislative delegation, county commissioners and regional partners to realize our vision of St. Paul as a multi-modal transit hub.
Chris understands that we are ALL immigrants or the children of immigrants and he knows that St. Paul's past as well as its future rests on how well we welcome the newest of citizens. His early vision for the Neighborhood House and work to win funding for the Wellstone Center demonstrates his commitment to our newest immigrants and community as a whole.
Most of all, Chris will bring that sense of civic pride, optimism and energy back. He will represent us because he is one of us. He is rooted in this place and his own openness, fairness and compassion are the qualities which are at the heart of our community. With Chris Coleman, the future of our city will be in good hands.
- George Latimer
The author was Mayor of St. Paul from the late 1970s through most of the 1980s.-------------------------------------------------
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