San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to Resign

[nadinbrzezinski]

Last edited Thu Aug 22, 2013, 02:09 PM - Edit history (3)

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has agreed to resign as part of a deal reached this week with city officials, NBC 7 News has learned.

Filner, spotted leaving City Hall with packing boxes Wednesday night, will formally vacate the office following a closed session of City Council Friday, according to several sources.


Source: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Mayor-Bob-Filner-to-Resign-220675401.html#ixzz2ciRBltyP

Ok I was off by a week as to when it would happen. I expected it earlier then they said...meetings with mediators. I revised then to after the 19 due to meetings with mediators. But hey, my crystal ball was well quite well calibrated.

Oh and I will say this...while overtly it is about harassment. It is not. It is about control of city politics and developers. He crossed the local mafia in ways none has done since Aguirre was City Attorney, or Murphy (a moderate Republican) was in office.

If he had been a compliant puppet none would have heard of his picadillos.

Yup, it's that bad.

And yes, this is why that operative gave up on politics, especially local politics.

Oh and a note to my lovely stalkers, nobody is dismissing the women, though a couple of the claims are silly, some are very serious. Some of us can chew gum and walk at the same time. When the recall Filner domain name is bought hours after the election is done...yes dears there is more to it. And if you believe that it is just about harassment, you are dead wrong.

But if the lawsuit is dropped, and I have it on my desk, it will mean I am more correct than any of you want or will concede. They knew he was a womanizer, even Jeff Durfee (a blue dog conservadem) knew this and dismissed these claims as far as two years ago. He might have even punished the progressive democrat that brought the claims to him two years ago.

I forgot to mention, a woman, by not supporting her bid for US congress. Instead we got a blue dog who voted to defund Obamacare.

Believe it or not, this is hardball politics. The kind of ugly hardball politics that are real life, not your imagination.

Admitting or realizing we have a developer mafia dismisses nobody, but recognizes the reality of local politics, you cross them, they will find an excuse to hound you out of office, period. It's not them rescuing damsels in distress...they are far from that charitable. Filner made it easier, that is all.

Oh and color me surprised, not

Meantime, as part of the proposed mediation deal, sources told Team 10 that Irene McCormack Jackson, who filed a civil suit against Filner, was going to accept a six-figure settlement deal.

http://www.10news.com/news/investigations/san-diego-mayor-bob-filner-prepared-to-resign-from-office

Hubby and I were expecting exactly this. We will watch where the rest of the moving parts end. I am also guessing which two city council members will raise objections and perhaps vote no

[Little Star]

1. k&r Good news!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I am not so sure, if you live south of Interstate 8

(Which was also Murphy's sin). Paying attention to the neighborhoods is a sin of local politics, stopping projects, that are even breaking state and federal law (in the case of Mile Aguirre) will also see you driven out of office.

Filner did both, a twofer. So no, I am not sure going back to politics as usual (and the resumption of attacks on municipal workers) is a good thing. Just giving you the full context

And no, nobody will go on record and call it a down town mafia. Finally I got the real reason, in whispers... None wants to cross them.

[Little Star]

10. We had our own down town mafia in my home town. So I hear you!

[Little Star]

18. Nadin, I'm sorry that you have had the swarm show up in this thread.....

You know that I have had my own differences with you in the past but the swarming is just disgusting.

Regarding you mentioning the 'down town mafia'. Some who have never lived in a town like that laugh. But for someone, like me, who had their literally taken over by the actual mafia we know it does happen. Of course todays mafia is dressed in much better clothes (so to say) than Gambino so as not to attract the attention of those who are blind to see. But they are the same, still paying off the powerful to turn a blind eye.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. The swarm has it's uses

They kick the threads.

Thanks guys and gals



And DU is like Junior High, guess what clique they are?

As to this local mafia...it's the developers. Been digging into other pols hounded out of office, the parallels are just eerie. One went to jail, I am sure they threatened Filner with it if he did not play nice and just go away. (And there could have been a case, maybe)

It used to be the developers and the tuna fleet, the latter went away in the 80s to Ensenada.

In one case, some in the cast of characters are the same. I think that when Aguirre said this place was oozing with corruption (he was hounded out of office) he was right.

[maddezmom]

3. What a load of garbage. You really are going to continue to dismiss these women as being part of a

Some sort of cabal intent on bring him down. He brought himself down being an abuser.

[sabrina 1]

15. The women are not being dismissed, but they are being used NOW. If a politician plays

the game, like Schwarzenegger, any women he may have harassed won't get a hearing. But if s/he steps out of line, all of a sudden there will be great concern for those women who tried to get attention years ago.

Sex scandals, especially when there is some truth to them, are the preferred choice, according to the CIA memo released by Wikileaks a few years ago, to go after someone who is stepping out of line.

Personally as a woman I despise the use of women, WHEN IT IS politically convenient for political games.

Try filing a complain against against a politician who is in the inner circle and see where it gets you.

But wait until s/he becomes inconvenient, and you are going to suddenly become very important.

Scharzenegger's long history of harassment charges was dismissed until he was no longer useful.

[LittleBlue]

4. Finally

I was tired of reading about this disgusting pervert. He can finally fade into obscurity where he belongs.

It's a shame he was doing some good against this "local mafia" and it ended like this.

[MineralMan]

5. You appear to be dismissing the importance of those he

subjected to sexual harassment. That's not really a good thing. Had his actions not occurred, he would not be resigning. He is resigning, and those actions are the reason he is retiring.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with your analysis of all this. But, then, I often disagree with your analysis of things.

You may be ignoring my posts, but that doesn't stop me from making them for others to see.

[maddezmom]

9. Obviously not ignoring, hence the edit

[MineralMan]

12. OIC.

Interesting, to be sure.

[Little Star]

14. I didn't see her dismissing the importance of those he subjected to sexual harassment...

I saw her say:

nobody is dismissing the women, though a couple of the claims are silly, some are very serious.

How is that dismissing the importance of sexual harassment? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I honestly just don't get it.

Trust me MM, I have not been a Nadin cheerleader but I thought she had some good points in her OP this time.

[Brother Buzz]

16. Gander at the edit timestamps

[MineralMan]

20. Edited post after my reply.

And there it is.

[Little Star]

22. where? I can't find it.

[MineralMan]

24. No. The OP edited her post after my reply to her.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Little Star]

25. Thanks. But many of us edit. Do you feel think she was wrong after she made her corrections?

[MineralMan]

26. I replied to the original version of the post.

My reply to that original version stands.

[Little Star]

27. So no consideration to her corrections?

[MineralMan]

29. I commented that she had made edits.

That's as far as I go. And you left off part of the quote from the edited post, besides. Here's the whole sentence:

Oh and a note to my lovely stalkers, nobody is dismissing the women, though a couple of the claims are silly, some are very serious.

And there it is.

[Little Star]

30. Can't deny that she does have a swarm of stalkers on DU, imho.

I personally find that action kinda mean. And not very helpful for discussion on DU. People can just put her on ignore or trash her threads.

[MineralMan]

31. Perhaps. But my post was not a stalking post. It was

targeted at the subject being discussed, not the poster. In the original version of the post, the women involved were dismissed as the reason for his resignation. I questioned that. That's discussion, not stalking. I do not stalk anyone, but I reserve the right to reply to posts made on DU for discussion.

And with that, I'm done with this subthread.

[Little Star]

33. Me too!

[Brickbat]

6. Local mafia?

Now THERE's a news story. You'll write it, right?

[hrmjustin]

7. Glad to hear he is going.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Read post number two

I am willing to bet on very depressed voting south of eight.

As in very depressed.

[snooper2]

11. Calling people who disagree with your premise stalkers...

I read about that somewhere-

[cali]

13. It's a good thing you aren't a real reporter

and only play one on DU.

Your habit of leaping to conclusions and playing fast and loose with facts aren't great qualifications.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Test

[MineralMan]

19. Check. Check. Check.

Is this mic on?

[liberal_at_heart]

23. Public pressure works. Imagine what we could get democrats to do if people weren't afraid to

put pressure on them.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. Read the whole post

This is far more complicated than that.

[liberal_at_heart]

32. I agree they are playing politics but as you said some of the claims are serious and those claims

have to be taken seriously. We can't let him stay in office just because they are playing politics with it. I really liked John Edwards. He was my first pick for presidential candidate during the primary in 2008 until of course we all found out what he did. I'm no prude. I don't normally think a sex scandal should end someone's political career especially if they doing good works for the public. But sometimes they do something that we can't ignore. But that's not to say someone shouldn't point out when they are playing politics with it. We should know that as well. Thank you for reporting on this.

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. You know what has my cackles going

And raised even more questions? The civil lawsuit will be dropped (i expected it) if this goes through.

In my mind it raises a lot of questions. I guess will have to keep an eye as to how fast a few people go back to the private sector.

Yeah it is serious, but...if you get my meaning.

If Gloria continues the agenda it will go a long way to calm my fears. If he starts reversing things...then I will know Aguirre was right, and the corruption is just deeepppp. I expect the latter, I hope to be proven wrong

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Ah, the call in to KPBS was interesting

Yup, others are raising the Dem leadership knew and did nothing before the election.

The hosts did not like that line of questioning from the mere public.

It is a valid question...period. One the local media wants to avoid with a ten foot pole