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Back to homepageHow Clintonian: Bob Filner is going to parry like it’s 1998
SAN DIEGO — Late last week, Mayor Bob Filner was playing the Hollywood card when it comes to the multiple sexual harassment allegations against him. Filner said he had a problem, pleaded for forgiveness and vowed to get therapy. Hey,
Read MoreSexual ‘assault’ or ‘harassment’? Filner could be on last legs
July 13, 2013 By Chris Reed San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s attempt to fight off the push to force him to quit because of alleged sexual harassment went well Thursday, when former allies trashed him at a press conference without
Read MoreFilner scandal: Mayor uses Hollywood survival strategem
July 12, 2013 By Chris Reed San Diego Mayor Bob Filner responded Thursday to allegations that he sexually harassed several members of his staff with a classic Hollywood strategem: pleading for forgiveness and announcing he was in a rehabilitation program
Read MoreFilner’s implosion accelerates with sex-harassment claims
July 11, 2013 By Chris Reed SAN DIEGO — To the surprise of no one who has dealt with him, first-year Mayor Bob Filner’s days in office could be numbered because of his personal recklessness. After two decades as a
Read MoreFilner themes — obnoxiousness, shadiness — merge
June 30, 2013 By Chris Reed Cal Watchdog readers have been updated regularly on the goofiness and ugliness that’s unfolded in San Diego since veteran Democratic congressman Bob Filner took over as mayor in December. The two main themes of
Read MoreSan Diego mayor continues descent into psycho-bully self-parody
June 22, 2013 By Chris Reed When CalWatchdog last weighed in on San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, it was to point out the hagiographic qualities of an often-fawning L.A. Times profile of the chronic bully and then to detail a subsequent
Read MoreSan Diego mayor’s latest escapade borders on extortion
June 18, 2013 By Chris Reed The bullying behavior that has characterized Bob Filner his entire political career has taken on a new and uglier tone since the 20-year Democratic congressman was elected mayor of San Diego in November. He’s
Read MoreSocial justice? Unions savage gay, black Democrat in San Diego
May 26, 2013 By Chris Reed San Diego’s recovery from its self-induced pension debacles a decade ago has been sufficiently vigorous that the state’s second-largest city is arguably in better shape than Los Angeles, San Jose and many big cities
Read MoreJuvenile justice: The latest from San Diego Mayor Bob Filner
April 16, 2013 By Chris Reed Newly elected San Diego Mayor Bob Filner basically owes his political career to the courage he showed as a Freedom Rider in the early 1960s. It’s the card he plays to cast himself in
Read MoreSmear of gay Republican: What will Dems say? Zip
March 25, 2013 By Chris Reed The hypocrisy of the power-mad left of California’s Democratic Party has never been more on display than in the attempt to destroy the 2012 mayoral candidacy of San Diego gay libertarian Republican Carl DeMaio.
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