SPicy is among the many who has read the One Minute Manager but has recently learned that the new Coleman Administration Deputy Mayor Ann Mulholland may have taken the book a bit too literally.

SPicy has learned of a brief and to the point meeting with the leadership from Laborers Local 132 about the city's plan to deal with the budget crisis.

Union leaders spent little time getting to the issue at hand and opened the meeting with a pointed question about Mayor Coleman's willingness to discuss "outsourcing" (SPicy had always wondered what happened to Compete Saint Paul).  New Deputy Mayor Mulholland apparently tried evade a direct answers to the question.  And as quickly as the meeting started - the leadership from Laborers Local 132 walked out the door.

One trip around the clock for the second hand and they had heard enough.

Unfortunately it doesn't take sixty seconds to understand the options left for unions in how they deal with the Coleman administration.  SPicy now believes that when a challenger for the Mayor emerges to his political left - there will be a receptive group of union members ready to take up the cause.

Yet SPicy wonders why the Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff - whoops - Mayor and Deputy Mayor - would use cutting union jobs as a way to attempt to find the political middle. Wouldn't it make more sense to try to find ways to actually create and support more jobs - for union workers in the city?

The last thing SPicy has for Deputy Mulholland -if she as a few extra seconds:  Didn't this administration say just two years ago that the Deputy Mayor's position didn't really exist?