03.17.2009 12:26 pm
Coleman: I tried to convince McMillan, Green to run
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS — In an interview today with the Post-Dispatch editorial board, Mayoral hopeful Maida Coleman — running as an independent candidates — says she tried to get both License Collector Mike McMillan and Comptroller Darlene Green to run first.
She also said that Democrat Irene J. Smith, who lost to Mayor Francis Slay in the March 3 primary, “didn’t have a chance.”
For more from the P-D editorial board, check out their blog, The Platform.
Well, it seems that Sen Coleman and I can agree on at least one point: Darlene Green is a very competent office-holder who would make a fine Mayor. If Ms. Green had chosen to run, I might really have had a hard time making up my mind.
What’s this? A non-mudslinging article on an opponent of Slay from the P-D? Surely the apocalypse is upon us!
But seriously, Darlene Green would’ve been excellent. Too bad people are content with Franny’s thuggishness and don’t hold him accountable. Maida Coleman does seem to be taking this race seriously though. That’s a good thing.
BTW, when is the Post going to man up about it’s hijacking of the name “St. Louis Platform” from the now “St. Louis Beacon”? That whole mess looks like a hissy fit from the P-D editorial board.
I sat next to Maida at the smoking ban debate tonight that the Federalist Society put on in the Loop. She told me that it had been a long day.