Tuesday, July 23, 2013

He is really egregious.

We are trying to get the military cleaned up, I would expect San Diego to be an example and not another case of sexual misconduct.

He minds me of Vitter.


6:23PM BST 23 Jul 2013

Mr Filner, 70, (click here) who previously served 20 years as a US congressman for California's second largest city, was alleged to have gripped an arm around the neck of communications officer Irene McCormack Jackson, 57, suggesting they get married and telling her: "Wouldn't it be great if we consummated the marriage?"...

It is a bit surprising. He was in the Congress for 20 years. He didn't have this problem then? Who was that Congressman that had the same problem. It wasn't him. This goes back a ways.???? It wasn't Mark Foley. ???? Bob Packwood. He is the guy. In Congress they are admonished and stuff like that so this probably seems like no big deal to him. 

I think Mr. Filner is asking a lot for people to forgive him. These women worked for him. The gals got a little more than they bargained for. It's is pretty terrible.

Filner was a far-left Democratic leader (click here) according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Filner’s time serving in the House of Representatives.
Use this chart to compare Filner to other members of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress on leadership and ideology.

I think San Diego needs to take into account the liability Mr. Filner is building for the city by staying in office. I think he has a real problem.


By Trip Gabriel
Published: August 29, 1993
...The 60-year-old Packwood (click here) is cast in the unlucky role of lightning rod just when the Senate is under pressure to prove its newly awakened sensitivity to the issue of sexual harassment, following the rough, inquisitorial treatment Hill suffered at the hands of some Senators two years ago. Fifty-eight senators have adopted anti-sexual-harassment guidelines framed by the Capitol Hill Women's Political Caucus. Packwood, in an irony no one's failed to note, was an early signer....

...Georgie Packwood, who says her former husband is obsessed with his place in history, is, in the end, sympathetic. She believes he's a decent man who became subtly intoxicated by power.

"We went to Washington together," she says. "I thought we were going to make some improvements. To me that's why you acquire power, to improve the lot of people whose lot needs improving. But it's a corrupting system. Maybe not because you take money under the table, but ethically and morally it can be corrupting.

"It just seems to me he lost his way."