Chris Coleman campaigning with Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Betty McCollum, October 2005

Chris Coleman (born 1961, St. Paul) is a Minnesota politician and the mayor of the state's capital city of St. Paul. In the 2005 mayoral race, he ran against and beat incumbent St. Paul mayor Randy Kelly. Chris Coleman took office in January 2006. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1424x1432, 459 KB) Summary Photo was taken by user dlz28 and is released into the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1424x1432, 459 KB) Summary Photo was taken by user dlz28 and is released into the public domain. ... John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ... Betty C. McCollum (born July 12, 1954) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... State capitol building in Saint Paul Saint Paul is the capital and second-largest city of the state of Minnesota in the United States of America. ... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Area  Ranked 12th  - Total 87,014 sq mi (225,365 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 8. ... State capitol building in Saint Paul Saint Paul is the capital and second-largest city of the state of Minnesota in the United States of America. ... Randy C. Kelly (born August 2, 1950 in North Dakota) is an American politician. ...

Coleman ran as a Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate against fellow DFLer Kelly, and won by a 69% to 31% margin. This was even larger than margins in pre-election polling, such as in October 2005, when Coleman was ahead of Kelly among likely St. Paul voters by a margin of 35%. Kelly's resounding loss was considered remarkable for being an incumbent DFLer in an overwhelmingly Democratic city and despite the respondents to the same poll also reporting that they feel generally that the city was doing well and was heading in the right direction. The large margin in Coleman's favor was widely recognized to reflect the deep unpopularity among Democratic voters in St. Paul of Kelly's decision to endorse George W. Bush for president in 2004. The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) is a political party in the US state of Minnesota. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Shortly after taking office, Coleman signed a city ordnance banning tobacco smoking in all bars and restaurants within city limits. The ban had long been opposed by former mayor Kelly. Smoking bans are public policies, including legal prohibitions and occupational health and safety regulations, that restrict smoking in workplaces and public places. ... Species Nicotiana acuminata Nicotiana alata Nicotiana attenuata Nicotiana benthamiana Nicotiana clevelandii Nicotiana excelsior Nicotiana forgetiana Nicotiana glauca Nicotiana glutinosa Nicotiana langsdorffii Nicotiana longiflora Nicotiana obtusifolia Nicotiana paniculata Nicotiana plumbagifolia Nicotiana quadrivalvis Nicotiana repanda Nicotiana rustica Nicotianasuaveolens Nicotiana sylvestris Nicotiana tabacum Nicotiana tomentosa Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005...

John Kerry visited St. Paul to campaign for Coleman in October 2005 (see[[1]]), although it meant campaigning against an incumbent of his own party. Wesley Clark and Bill Richardson have also personally campaigned for him in St. Paul, while Hillary Clinton and John Edwards have both actively supported him. John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ... Wesley Kanne Clark (born December 23, 1944) is a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army. ... William Blaine Bill Richardson (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. ... Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947), was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton. ... John Reid Edwards (born June 10, 1953), was the Democratic 2004 nominee for Vice President, and a one-term former Democratic Senator from North Carolina who is considered a potentially strong Democratic candidate for the 2008 Presidential election. ...

Chris Coleman is son of Nicholas Coleman, Sr., a Minnesota state senator from 1963 to 1981, who also served as state senate majority leader, and the brother of Nick Coleman, a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Disambiguation: see also Nick Coleman, a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune Nicholas D. (Nick)Coleman was a Minnesota politician and State Senate majority leader. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Disambiguation: see also Nick Coleman the Minnesota politician and this Nick Colemans father Nick Coleman (born 1950) is a columnist for the Star Tribune, the daily newspaper published in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota and is published seven days each week in an edition for the Minneapolis-St. ...

Chris is also the brother of Emmett Coleman, who works in Governmental Relations with Comcast.

He is no relation to Norm Coleman, Randy Kelly's predecessor as mayor of St. Paul and a current U.S. Senator ([2]). Norman Bertram Norm Coleman Jr. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ...

External links

• Chris Coleman for Mayor official website
• "A Bush Democrat May Lose His Way", Washington Post, November 6, 2005