San Diego mayor accused of sexual harassment leaves office quietly

[Surya Gayatri]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Bob Filner's term as San Diego mayor came to a quiet end on Friday as the veteran politician who resigned in the face of a sexual harassment lawsuit stayed out of the public eye on his last day in office.

Filner, a former Democratic congressman elected to lead California's second-largest city last year, announced his resignation last week as part of a settlement with the city over how to handle a lawsuit filed by his former press secretary.

The press secretary, Irene McCormack Jackson, is among 18 women who have accused the 70-year-old politician of making unwanted sexual advances toward them, but is so far the only one to sue him.

Parks department employee Stacy McKenzie filed a $500,000 battery and sexual assault claim against the city in what her attorney has said was a precursor to a lawsuit.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/31/us-usa-sandiego-mayor-idUSBRE97U01F20130831

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Old Mayor Bob is no more. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[MADem]

1. Didn't do any pinching or goosing on his way out the door, then?

Why, surely, then, he must be ..... CURED!!!!




I was really hoping that jerk was a Republican when this story broke. I'm glad he "went quietly" and didn't draw this out for too long. We don't need those kinds of assholes on our team.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Repuke or Dem, sexual harassment must be deterred and proper punishment administered.

I'm glad he's been hounded from office.

[MADem]

7. So am I, but I would have been "gladder" if he'd been on the other team. nt

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Agreed!

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. And yet Republicans that do the same thing or worse, David Vitter/Mark Sanford, are re-elected.

Democrats sure love eating our own something.

Not taking sides, but I sort of wish the tongs and hammers would go against GOP pervs too.

[marble falls]

3. He needed to be put out and made an example of. "They did it, too!" is a five year old's defense.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. Then this thirty-FIVE year old implores people to also work with as much zeal and vigor

to make examples of people on the other side too. Honestly, I get annoyed at the "kick a Democrat" attitude.

[Paladin]

5. +1000.

I'm sick of being told to adhere to a rulebook that the right wing threw away, decades ago. This "Play Nice, Democrats" attitude is bullshit.

And good riddance to Filner.

[meow2u3]

9. This is a major difference between Dems and repukes

Dems guilty of sexual misconduct are pressured to resign, while repukes get promoted for the same crap. Dems punish sexual bullies; repukes reward them.

[Nye Bevan]

10. How is having a consensual extramarital affair "the same or worse"

than bring a predatory sexual harrasser?

[Sgent]

11. How is what Vitter did worse?

as bizarre as his fetishes are, I'm unaware that any illegal impropriety was with government employees. He's a major league hypocrite , but I'd rather a hypocrite represent me than some one engaged in illegal harassment.

Vitter is an idiot that I will work very hard to defeat, but I don't see how the situations are comparable.