A question about my email from WesPAC...

[hopein08]

In the New Year's email I got this afternoon from Wesley Clark's PAC, he mentioned that one of the candidates that his PAC had supported this past year is St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. Wasn't nitwit Repuke Sen. Norm Coleman mayor of St. Paul...as a Dem., no less? So is it just a big coincidence that someone named Coleman is now the mayor and being support by WesPAC or are there some brains in the Coleman family and not everyone followed Sen. Norm?

I know, probably a silly question I could have googled, but the wealth of knowledge here is making me lazy!!:blush::blush::blush:

Happy New Year, friends!!! Best wishes and all the happiness in the world to you!:toast::toast::toast:

[MH1]

1. No relation, I believe.

Kerry also supported Chris Coleman and stumped for him. The question came up on the Kerry group and someone posted that they're not related.

Coleman's a pretty common name.

[babylonsister]

2. Isn't Normie from NJ originally? nt

[hopein08]

3. Yep, you're right.... (sort of)

I venture to Normie's Senate website and found these facts...

1. "Growing up in a large Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York..."
2. "In college at Hofstra University on Long Island, Norm was student body president and a student activist deeply involved in the anti-war and civil rights movements. He went to the University of Iowa Law School where he also served as student body president and graduated with highest honors. And then, drawn by a job opportunity in the office of Minnesota’s Attorney General, he headed north to take his first professional job."
3. "In 1996, Mayor Coleman made a major change. Frustrated that the Democratic party he had been a part of from his youth had assumed the role of defenders of the status quo, he switched to the Republican party because he felt it held the best opportunity to bring about job growth, quality education and greater public safety."

Bleeeeech...

Anyway, for citing sake; here's the link I used...http://coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Bio.Biography

His wife, on a shallow and relatively irrelevant note, is not at all what I expected for him.

I also remember reading that Chuck Schumer said that if Bernie Sanders wins the Jeffords' Senate seat in Vermont, there will be three senators who are graduates of the same NYC high school (Sanders, Schumer, Normie).