San Diego mayor accused of sexual harassment leaves office quietly
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
Old Mayor Bob is no more. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
MADem
(135,425 posts)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
(15,445 posts)I'm glad he's been hounded from office.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)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
(57,479 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)to make examples of people on the other side too. Honestly, I get annoyed at the "kick a Democrat" attitude.
Paladin
(28,283 posts)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
(24,776 posts)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
(25,406 posts)than bring a predatory sexual harrasser?
Sgent
(5,857 posts)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.