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Filner may be the winner in last two accusations
Sexual harassment has a narrow legal definition, a woman judge ruled that Paula Jones' claim that Clinton exposed himself to her in a hotel room did not comprise sexual harassment even if true. Laws may differ. Contact alone proves nothing, a person entering a crowd for instance, gives implied consent to some touching. I don't know what the rules are for cocktail parties, but the described behavior is very normal where people are drinking as in the Laura Fink accusation. If the leading Filner from table to table Fink described was done in the old fashioned style, she perhaps implied consent to reciprocal touching. Dancing also implies some consent. There is nothing to the Fink claim that justifies turning over the City checkbook to Fink's client, Todd Gloria.— July 24, 2013 4:32 p.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
Gloria Allred seems to act on retainer, who's paying?— July 24, 2013 1:57 p.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
An unwanted touch at a cocktail party eight years ago apologised for and never repeated does not mean the Mayor should resign and make the accuser's current client, Todd Gloria, acting Mayor. Those that treat the truth as a weapon, to be picked up or dropped when it furthers their interest, are not at heart truthful. That said, I believe most of her story, but her actions speak just as loud. She stayed quiet before and worked to elect a man she now claims unfit for office. She said what she was paid to say. Someone else is paying her now.— July 24, 2013 10:44 a.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
The Fink accusation is too old, and the Filner crew responded by the textbook. She reports no retaliation or repeated incidents. This is not sexual harassment.— July 24, 2013 2:35 a.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
There is a lawful way to remove the Mayor, yet the drumbeat is for immediate resignation. Why should he resign? As with the apology his resignation would be taken as admission of whatever anyone wants to accuse him later. I can't unequivocally support Filner because someone may still come forward with a real example of sexual harassment, and there might be new evidence that supports this dubious claim. But nothing so far suggests that Filner misused his position to force someone to have sex, the usual meaning of sexual harassment. Remember a woman judge refused to hear the Paula Jones lawsuit, ruling that the accusation that Clinton exposed himself in a hotel room did not fit sexual harassment even if true. These Filner allegations don't come near that. Those that say Filner has no support now are wrong, many are outraged at the treatment he's getting, even as we wait for facts.— July 23, 2013 4:28 p.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
This is trial by media circus, the jury will be the voters. They are asking for a remedy that no judge can grant. I'm waiting for more plaintiffs, ones with legitimate damages, and real evidence. If this is all they've got, after all the build up, my bet is on Filner, both to win in court and with the public.— July 23, 2013 1:37 p.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
A case can be referred yes, but Allred denied knowledge of Gonzales' actions, and the missing plaintiffs he claimed to speak for. If Gonzales slinks away, we'll know something, if his missing clients come forward, we'll know something else. What we know now is why they have been so slow in identifying this alleged victim, she doesn't pass the laugh test as an object of lust, and far from being exploited and helpless, she is connected and power hungry, and seems to accept no redress other than the destruction of her enemy, and reversing the vote of thousands. She knows personally those that intend to grab power by this circus. She's one of them. Real victims may come forward later, they also deserve due process.— July 23, 2013 11:49 a.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
Did any of you supporting this coup look at this woman? If you then believe the Mayor was consumed by passion and threw away his career because this woman refused to marry him, you are blind or a lesbian, or the Mayor is. Context is everything in language, and the Mayor can plausibly claim that he was joking, and never imagined that she had so little self awareness as to believe the Mayor wanted more than laughs. It's not just the age and weight, the woman is just unsexy. To win at trial plaintiff would need witnesses. Gonzales' exit is also problematic, usually attorneys are added. Exits sometimes mean that the first attorney knows their client is lying. Allred was snappy, claiming ignorance when asked about the first attorney, and the other alleged victims. Attorneys can't ethically accuse former clients of lying, but silence sometimes sings.— July 23, 2013 9:46 a.m.
Something fishy about Filner's accuser: where there is smoke there are mirrors
Why should a man have an opinion about a woman's underwear unless she's lifting up her skirt? Why should a man throw his career away for someone so obviously frigid? This scandal needs a beautiful leading lady or it will flop. Is this really the best they've got? She's laughable.— July 23, 2013 1:12 a.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
I believe this is politics, some will gain if Filner can be destroyed. Much that the plaintiff claims as abuse just can't be. The proposal of marriage for instance. This must be a joke or plaintiff is conceding a much closer relationship than she claims. The underwear comment also can't be precisely what she claims. Why would anyone know or care unless someone is lifting up their skirt? She claims to have observed others being abused, but in a generic way, so no one can defend the Mayor by denying the charge. We're told there is no circumstantial evidence or corroborating witnesses at this time, we'll have to take plaintiffs word for it. We're told the damages are unspecified, except that the Mayor must resign. She asks for political remedy for an offense that is not political. Plainly this lawsuit intends to use the court as theater to disgrace the Mayor, seeking something the court can't grant, his removal from office.— July 23, 2013 12:46 a.m.