This Guy Makes Carlos Dangerous Look Like A Choir Boy...

[Lord Jim]

Any bets on how many more days it will be before there'll be enough to field a football team?

Okay, who had three days in the pool?

11th accuser against Filner comes forward

By REBECCA ELLIOTT | 8/6/13 5:37 PM EDT

The 11th woman to accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment — and the second to be represented by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred — came forward at a news conference Tuesday.

Michelle Tyler, a nurse, alleged that Filner asked her to engage in a personal and sexual relationship in exchange for his help in the case of U.S. Marine Katherine Ragazzino, who was wounded in Iraq.[Now that sounds like it could a prosecutable crime.]

“He made it very clear that his expectation was that his help for Katherine depended on my willingness to go to dinner with him, spend personal time with him and be seen in public with him,” Tyler said at the news conference.

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Ragazzino experienced a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder while serving and has since struggled to resolve a problem with Veterans Affairs. Tyler is her caretaker.

The incident allegedly took place on June 11 in the mayor’s office, two years after Tyler first discussed Ragazzino’s care with Filner. After asking for others to leave the room, Allred said, Filner asked to spend time with Tyler, expressed interest in kissing her, and asked whether she was married and if he could call her.

“I do not appreciate being used as a bargaining chip to fulfill his sexual desires,” Ragazzino said.

(PHOTOS: 10 cringe-worthy accusations against Bob Filner)

“To use his power as the mayor of the city of San Diego to satisfy his sexual needs is clearly improper and should not be tolerated,” Allred said. “I think it’s time for the city to post a warning sign outside of the mayor’s office, warning women to proceed at their own risk. They should be told that the mayor is in his office and danger may lie ahead.”

Tyler will not be filing a lawsuit against Filner at this time. However, Allred sent a letter to San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith Tuesday, asking him to open an investigation into the incident.

Allred’s client Irene McCormack Jackson, Filner’s former communications director, is the only woman to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against the mayor thus far. But a slew of other women have come forward to accuse him of harassment, and many other figures in San Diego politics have called on him to resign.

Filner has refused, saying that although he “failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me,” he does not believe he is guilty of sexual harassment. Instead, Filner announced that he would spend two weeks in intensive therapy starting Monday.

Allred said that she has been contacted by more women, but declined to say whether they would come forward publicly.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/1 ... z2bEzHCsjG

I apologize if this update is out of date by the time I hit the "submit" button. Afterrall, it's been two hours since the last one came forward; there could easily be one or two more before I post this.

[Andrew D]

This Guy Makes Carlos Dangerous Look Like A Choir Boy ...

That's "chorister," bub.

[Lord Jim]

For those of you keeping score at home:

14th Woman, a City Employee, Claims Mayor Filner Sexually Harassed Her

A city employee is now the 14th woman to come forward and allege that she was harassed by Mayor Bob Filner.

The woman only known as Stacy, told her story to KOGO 600 early Thursday morning. Stacy told the station she was at a community event, when her two staffers, both female uniformed law enforcement officers, told her the mayor had arrived. Stacy says she walked up to the mayor to introduce herself. At the time, the mayor was talking to a student reporter from a local high school. After the interview, Stacy said the mayor thanked her for her service and then asked her out.

"Let me ask you something, can you ever go out to lunch with you boss," Stacy recalled.

After asking her for a business card, Stacy claims he grabbed forcefully her by the wrist and clarified he was not asking her out on a business lunch.

Stacy said he told her, "I'm not asking you out on a business lunch, I'm asking you out on a date. When I see a beautiful woman, I always have to go over and talk to her."

Stacy said didn't remember how the conversation ended, but she remembered thinking that she had to get away from him. She made her way across the room to tell her staff what had just happened. Stacy said when she told the two female officers, they were in shock. One officer told Stacy she had tried to shake the mayor's hand, he ignored her outstretched hand. Stacy said while the three were talking the Mayor walked up behind her and put his right arm around her neck and tighten the hold with his left arm, effectively creating a sleeper hold. She said the mayor asked her staff if he should make Stacy "Employee of the Day," and them he like to get close to his staff. Stacy told the station the mayor then looked at her and said she was turning red. She said at that point the mayor laughed and walked away.

Stacy said shortly after he called at her office , but she refused to answer the phone. Stacy said she avoided city hall to avoid coming into contact with Filner.

Stacy says she filed a claim with the city about Filner's behavior. She said she encourages other women who have been harassed by Filner to come forward, she says the feeling is liberating.

http://www.sandiego6.com/story/14th-wom ... r-20130808

[Gob]

This Guy Makes Carlos Dangerous Look Like A Choir Boy ...

That's "chorister," bub.

Errmmm... no. Chorister is any member of a choir, choir boy refers to the trebles or young boys in a choir. It's also a slang term for a do-gooder or "sqeaky clean" person, in the same way as "boy scout' is used in slang.

[Andrew D]

Whoosh!

[Lord Jim]

Wild Bob is the gift that just keeps on giving...(He's the best thing since Hot Rod Blago... )

Get a load of Number 16:

Great-grandmother Peggy Shannon accuses Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment



SAN DIEGO - A great-grandmother says Mayor Bob Filner asked her if she thought he could "go for eight hours." The woman is the 16th to come forward with claims of sexual harassment against the mayor.

Peggy Shannon, 67, works part-time at San Diego City Hall's senior citizens service desk to supplement her Social Security income.

"My co-workers and I would laugh about it, at first," Shannon said at a Thursday afternoon news conference.

However, she said it got worse. Shannon said Filner grabbed and kissed her.

"I knew he was engaged and I felt very shocked," she said. "On the day that Mayor Filner grabbed me and kissed me, I went home and cried."

Attorney Gloria Allred said Filner approached Shannon one time and said, "Do you think I could go eight hours, straight?"

Shannon said she was shocked and hurt.

"I was working and had to get myself together to continue my job," Shannon said. "I went home and cried again."

Shannon said she immediately told her supervisor, and Allred said there is an open investigation with the city's Equal Employment Investigations Office.

Shannon described the timeline of Filner's video apology and then his statement that he'd done nothing wrong the next day.

"I feel now he was not sorry -- it was all bad," Shannon said.

"I want to do the right thing for San Diego -- Mayor Filner should resign immediately," Shannon said. "I want to protect working women."

The great-grandmother said she is afraid to go back to work, but will continue and go back to her post Friday. She sobbed through most of her statement to the media.

"Your days of fun and games and the sexual harassment of women are over," Allred said about Filner. "It is time for you to go."

http://www.10news.com/news/investigatio ... harassment

Well, at least nobody's going to accuse him of age discrimination...

I'm beginning to think that if all the women who have spent more than two minutes in Hizzonner's company over the past 10 years who weren't sexually harassed and/or assaulted by him were to come forward, we would wind up with a shorter list....

And as if all the accusations, investigations, and recal effort weren't enough, now Bobby Boy has suffered the ultimate humiliation:

Mayor Bob Filner Banned From San Diego Hooters

Amid a recall effort, therapy and multiple allegations of sexual harassment, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is now facing another setback: He is barred from entering the Hooters restaurants in the city he governs, with the franchisee citing a belief that "women should be treated with respect."

"This establishment recognizes that we all have political differences and we serve people from all walks of life," window signs in four San Diego-area Hooters reportedly state. "We also believe it is imperative for people to have standards. The Mayor of San Diego will not be served in this establishment."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mayor-bob-filn ... d=19958389

Too crass a horndog for Hooters...

[Lord Jim]

This may help to explain why (beyond sheer egomania) Mayor Cop-a-feel is hanging on to his job:

Bodyguards: Filner took women to hotel

The security detail has told investigators of visits to Westgate

Federal, state and local investigators have been gathering information and building cases against San Diego Mayor Bob Filner beyond the sexual harassment accusations that have captured national attention.

The investigations have quietly moved forward amid near-daily revelations, from women making claims of lurid Filner behavior to the mayor ending his behavioral therapy early to locks being changed on the mayor’s office.

Key recent developments on the investigative front, according to sources and documents:

• Members of the mayor’s security detail provided information to investigators about Filner taking women to the downtown Westgate hotel,[and charging the cost to the city]among other things.

• A subpoena has been issued to Lee Burdick, Filner’s chief of staff, to have her testify under oath and provide her notes about issues involving Sunroad Centrum Partners, a developer that paid $100,000 to the city at the behest of the Filner administration before approval its project was granted. The FBI has been inquiring about the transaction.

• As many as 30 City Hall employees, many who work in the mayor’s City Hall suite, have now been interviewed by investigators, mostly with the City Attorney’s Office, but also with the Sheriff’s Department and the FBI.

• Three members of the Sheriff’s Department have been assigned to handle phone calls from a hotline set up for Filner accusers to report possible criminal misconduct and conduct follow up interviews and investigations.

• In addition to agency investigations, City Council Audit Committee Chairman Kevin Faulconer is scheduled to announce Monday he will summon key city officials to testify before his committee September 9 about Filner’s June trip to Paris and the use of city-issued credit cards in connection with that trip.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Aug ... ticle-copy

Late Filner payments imperiled city credit

San Diego’s city credit was endangered when Mayor Bob Filner and his assistant charged up thousands of dollars on a city purchasing card and failed to submit proper documentation to allow for payment, public records show.

As Filner racked up debts totaling $3,200, U.S. Bank threatened the city’s general goods credit through Dun & Bradstreet. The documents show the account fell to 120 days in arrears and was suspended.

Along with his assistant, the records show charges totaling $11,095 for cards assigned to Filner’s office. Expenses included items such as a juicer, a trip to Mexico, conference charges for a Las Vegas convention Filner did not attend and expenses at the Westgate Hotel across the street from City Hall, where Filner’s bodyguards say he took women.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/aug ... san-diego/

It may be that Filner is cynically calculating that he might be able to cut an Agnew-type deal where he swaps his resignation for some kind of deal on criminal charges. Filner has to know that every day he remains in office he is doing great damage to the city of San Diego.

He can't work effectively with the business community, (or to attract business or tourism dollars to the city) no other politician of either party will work with him on anything, (including the city council, which voted 9-0 for him to resign). His political capabilities and moral authority are completely gone. So long as he remains as mayor, the functioning of the top echelons of the city government are essentially paralyzed.

Filner obviously couldn't care less about this, but he may be betting on the idea that the various prosecutors and investigators will care. He may have decided that he will try to hold the city and it's people essentially as hostages whose release he will negotiate in exchange for some arrangement that keeps his ass out of the slammer.

[Lord Jim]

"Surrender Bob" skywriting appears in San Diego's skies



SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A San Diego radio station hired skywriters Friday to spell out "Surrender Bob" over three areas of the city -- a message intended for embattled Mayor Bob Filner.

The words appeared over Rancho Bernardo, Mission Valley and downtown, where atmospheric conditions caused the lettering to blur quickly.

The writing was sponsored by the "Jeff & Jer Showgram," the morning show on radio station KYXY. The planes also spelled out "Jeff and Jer."

"While there's a clear sentiment toward Mayor Filner among San Diegans currently, it's not our intent to be overtly political," said the show's Tommy Sablan. "If nothing else we hope our little stunt brings a much-needed smile to the face of San Diego on a Friday afternoon."

Filner has resisted numerous calls for his resignation over accusations of sexual harassment, and investigations into alleged misuse of city-issued credit cards and shakedowns of developers.

Organizers of an effort to recall Filner plan to start circulating petitions Sunday.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/aug ... photos-hp/

[oldr_n_wsr]

Not to get off topic, but I miss when sky-writers did the writing with one plane and it took a while to write the words. Today they fly in formation and it's not as "cool" with the "dashed" letters. Used to be fun trying to guess the letter/words they were making.
The old days.

[kristina]

Looks as if he's resigning tomorrow.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/S ... 75401.html

[oldr_n_wsr]

he’s not going to leave for free

I just don't know how this guy can have the balls to expect the puplic to pay him to leave.

[Lord Jim]

Disgraced San Diego Mayor Bob Filner resigns in negotiated deal

Faced with accusations of misconduct by 18 women, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner resigned Friday in a deal that limits his financial liability for the legal problems sure to follow. A special election will choose a new mayor.

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s long political career – which dates back to the civil rights era and included many years as a progressive Democrat in Congress – came to a dramatic end Friday afternoon, the finale to a dramatic few weeks that saw woman after woman come forward to accuse him of inappropriate conduct.

As part of a deal, Mr. Filner will resign a week from now (Aug. 30) in exchange for the city taking some steps to limit his financial liability for the legal problems that are sure to follow.

Under the agreement, the city drops the cross-complaint it filed against Filner and will provide a joint legal defense in the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former aide, U-T San Diego reports. Filner may continue to retain outside counsel, but the city will pay no more than $98,000 for his attorney fees. The city will have complete control over decisions on settlements of any claims.

Eighteen women (at last count) had accused the mayor and former congressman of groping them or making lewd comments, the list ranging from his former communications director (who sued him for sexual harassment) to military veterans to a 67-year-old great-grandmother.

In a public apology weeks ago, Filner conceded that his conduct had been “inappropriate and wrong,” then he disappeared into two weeks of what he called “intensive therapy.”

But by then it was way too late, and a signature-gathering effort to oust him by ballot measure was underway. Meanwhile, federal, state, and local investigators began gathering information and building cases against Filner for financial issues dealing with developers.

n a dramatic appearance after the City Council had met in private Friday afternoon to formally accept the negotiated settlement, Filner apologized to San Diegans and to his accusers.

"The city should not have to go through this, and my own personal failures were responsible and I apologize to the city," Filner said.

"To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space," he said. "I was trying to establish personal relationships,[with face licks, ass grabs, and headlocks..]but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive."

But the disgraced mayor also slammed what he called a political “lynch mob” mentality marked by “rumor and innuendo” that led to his downfall.

Of the allegations by the 18 women who came forward to personally accuse him of inappropriate conduct, Filner said, “Not one allegation has been independently verified or proven in court.”

“I know that given due process, I would have been vindicated,” he said.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2 ... deal-video

While it's morally galling for the citizens of San Diego to have to foot even one penny for the disgusting shenanigans of this four star creepo, from a purely financial standpoint it makes sense...

If the recall petition drive had succeeded, (and it was already beginning to look as though against all odds it very well might have) the cost to the city for the recall vote would have been about two and a half million dollars....

To say nothing of the cost to the town of this garbanzo clinging to office for months, and paralyzing the management of the city...

Whatever the city pays in legal fees and settlements is likely to be less than the cost of a recall election, and this way they're also rid of him immediately....

[rubato]

If we're speaking of galling, Nixon was pardoned.

This is just a meaningless blip on the political radar by comparison.


yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

Ford Wins Kennedy Award For 'Courage' of Nixon Pardon

By ADAM CLYMER
Published: May 22, 2001

Former President Gerald R. Ford, overwhelmingly condemned in 1974 for pardoning his predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, was honored today for that act by the John F. Kennedy Library with its Profile in Courage award.

Caroline Kennedy, President Kennedy's daughter, presented a beaming Mr. Ford, 87, with a silver lantern emblematic of the award. She said Mr. Ford had proved that ''politics can be a noble profession'' with his ''controversial decision of conscience'' to issue the pardon. She said Mr. Ford's act was in the tradition honored by her father's 1956 book, ''Profiles in Courage.''

Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts told the audience at the John F. Kennedy Library: ''I was one of those who spoke out against his action then. But time has a way of clarifying past events, and now we see that President Ford was right. His courage and dedication to our country made it possible for us to begin the process of healing and put the tragedy of Watergate behind us.''

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/us/fo ... ardon.html

[Big RR]

I remember that; it was either pardon Nixon, or let Teddy take him for a ride.

[Econoline]