St. Paul’s Coleman debates Ng, Minneapolis’ Rybak shadow-boxes T-Paw

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman debates his Republican opponent, Eva Ng, tonight, and they’ll tangle again on Minnesota Public Radio the day before the election. But in Minneapolis, Mayor R.T. Rybak’s campaign says he doesn’t have any showdowns scheduled with his 10 challengers. (He’ll miss a mayoral forum Wednesday.) Instead, Rybak is shadow-boxing Gov. Pawlenty on national TV.

Both mayors have made time for gatherings of gubernatorial candidates, prompting a complaint from the Republican Party of Minnesota that they’re not filing financial reports for their unannounced campaigns for governor in 2010.

Here’s Rybak on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Monday (interview starts at the 1:10 mark):

What I hope is that all the investigative reporters from around the country come out here to Minnesota. We’d love to have you here. And spend a few years and do your very best to find a single thing that this guy has done as governor.

Rybak also had harsh words on MSNBC for former Minnesota Viking Randy Moss — who, like Pawlenty, isn’t one of Rybak’s rivals for mayor of Minneapolis.