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Filner imbroglio is all about greed
I have found Dr. Bob Filner’s 1973 dissertation “Science and politics in England, 1930-1945” bit.ly/13Akq1M. It is a very interesting and educational read. It shows that Bob is a cultured and educated man unlike the money-grubbing riff-raff that are baying for his blood. It is ironic that in his 1973 PhD dissertation he accurately identified the dark forces that are now trying to destroy him, forty years later. He mentions “the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty”. How many of his accusers daily step over homeless veterans on the streets of San Diego as they hurry to their offices to blacken the name of the one person in power who would try to help them? Political assassins always blacken the name of their victims. “What kind of social system can function at its best only when it is destroying us?” That is exactly the kind of social system we have had in San Diego for decades. The greed of the few could only be fed by the relentless destruction of the many. The more I am witness to what is happening in San Diego, under the cynical guise of eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace which everybody supports, the more I understand what is really happening - this is an all-out assault on our civil rights by a small money elite. In my opinion the man who wrote this enlightened PhD dissertation in 1973 will never cave in to the money-grubbing riff-raff that are trying to prevent his reform program in America’s Finest and eighth largest city. Bob knows exactly what he is doing. He knows that his time has come in America. He will overcome the traps they set for his well-studied weaknesses. He expected their attacks. He just underestimated their viciousness. We must do our part. J. Edgar Hoover tried to destroy the reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. and the two Kennedy brothers. When reputational assassination failed the three best men of their generation mysteriously got killed by lone gunmen. We must not underestimate the powers that are arraigned against Dr. Robert Earl Filner. Our time has come in America too.— August 2, 2013 9:05 a.m.
Questions about McCormack Jackson suit
Don: You say: "Filner has already moved the City backward -- into the hands of the downtown corporate welfare autocrats." I share your fear that he may have done so but if you read Bob’s statement carefully http://www.sandiego.gov/mayor/pdf/2013/release130… you will notice that he did not commit himself to the expansion project Sanders approved on his way out the door that included a PLA. He merely restated his support for "a" convention center expansion project. He did not say that he supported "their" expansion project. I don't think he has rolled over for them. I think he has merely bought himself some time.— July 23, 2013 1:37 a.m.
City accused of subverting public records law in lawsuit over Convention Center expansion
Now we know why Sanders took those long walks: he was making city deals on his private cell phone.— July 20, 2013 1:59 a.m.
Ignoring friends' advice got Filner into trouble
Yeah monaghan, that's a "mortaler".— July 17, 2013 5:15 p.m.
Ignoring friends' advice got Filner into trouble
Don: The rule of law is bigger than all of us. This may turn out to be a timely reminder.— July 17, 2013 10:12 a.m.
Ignoring friends' advice got Filner into trouble
Thanks Don: You answered all you could. I just thought such questions are better coming from her friends than from her enemies. The weakness of her argument is its timing. As this thing drags on, which it will, and as people start to do U-turns, which they will, because they have to deal with Bob as Mayor, they will start to justify those U-turns by finding holes in Donna's arguments. Much of what has happening so far, Mitrovitch for example, is based on an assumption that Bob will be forced to resign. They forget that he has the rule of law on his side. People will start to realize that the rule of law would be undermined if Donna, or anybody else, no matter how well intentioned, could take it upon themselves to remove an elected representative without due process. That danger will become clearer and clearer with time. If Donna, Marco and Cory wanted Filner removed they should have done so the constitutional way, by starting a recall movement. Everything else is tyranny.— July 17, 2013 9:46 a.m.
Ignoring friends' advice got Filner into trouble
"Donna Frye didn't have the latitude to pursue her passion. When she left, he failed to reach out to her." I assume you talked to her Don. In your opinion: which seemed more important to her while she worked for Bob, "pursuing her passion" for the open government we all want, or her passion for protecting women from predatory men, which we also all want? In other words did she witness any sexual harassment while working that closely with Bob but ignored it in favor of her greater passion for open government or did she only become aware of his sexual problem after she left? And if Filner had reached out to her after she left, would she still have condemned him for sexual harassment based only on what she learned after she left?— July 17, 2013 3 a.m.
It's a lynching until proven otherwise
Don: I don't think you should worry about Bob going to the dark side and cozying up to downtown oligarchs like Manchester or Fred Mass for example. Whoever put that scare into your head may "know the inside very well" but they do not know Bob (not that I know him any better). But in my opinion, it just won't happen. Bob is a new kind of San Diego Mayor. An honest one.— July 16, 2013 2:10 a.m.
Big people talk about issues; small people talk about people
Don, it is because you DO have the Olympian detachment to guide us through the stormy straits that we know you are NOT unbalanced. In fact you are the most "balanced" person I know. And never were you more needed than now. So dear Captain Don, steer on our little bark of public opinion, between our current Scylla and Charybdis, the foaming whirlpool of hypocrisy on one side and the rock of equality of the sexes on the other. I think we will all come out of this the better for it, including Bob.— July 14, 2013 1:46 a.m.
Big people talk about issues; small people talk about people
Yes, I think that part of the MC should be amended. As it stand right now it encourages corruption, as you say. Cory's case is important not just because of the $100,000, which has in any case been returned, but because the City did not follow due process. The judge, whoever the case falls to, may feel obliged to enforce the fundamental principle that we must always be governed by laws not by men. That is really what is at stake here.— July 14, 2013 1:05 a.m.