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Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
wasn't mikey going to move to chula vista and try to take over the Cox political dynasty over there? if so, he would probably want to follow up on the stillborn move of the new stadium over there and take all the jobs and tax revenue to chula vista. maybe even start up the talk of that other hotel-convention thingie again over there to take the comic-con down south a couple miles. hmm, maybe even claim that the Eastlake Little League team lost because they didn't let him play or preferably manage the team. lol oh, got to agree that mikey does come across as the angry sarah-palin candidate of san diego city politics. but filner probably now owns the "angry" label because of the imaginary lynch mobs that are chasing after him. but despite mikey's own political history, he might do much better than filner ever could -- if mikey is at least respectful of women. a good indicator of that would be if mikey doesn't have any headlock skills and doesn't slobber when near women.— August 31, 2013 9:38 a.m.
Filner issues a Stop-Use Order against North Park Jack in the Box. Todd Gloria rescinds.
the last act by filner gets zapped. that just shows how powerless he now is. that certainly puts filner in his place. he's probably crying at home all alone. no more being mayor for him. no more security detail being paid for by the city. no more adoring crowds of deluded followers. his political career in ruins. sad but he had it coming to him. meanwhile, there are probably lots of drivers who are probably happy and cannot wait for that drive-thru to open up at jacks....— August 30, 2013 8:11 p.m.
Todd Gloria wields the ax, firing most of Filner staff
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demaio really wants to hold his mayo when realizing his full potential while in the restrooms of government buildings. lol— August 29, 2013 6:44 p.m.
Hueso, Emerald reconfirm statements on DeMaio behavior
This comment was removed by the site staff.Four more candidates enter fray to replace Mayor Bob Filner
my current personal preferred minimum qualifications for mayoral candidates: (1) name is not Bob Filner. (2) no permanent filner-like creepy "Joker" smile on face. (3) does not know what is a Filner Headlock. (4) modern 21st Century "freedom rider" who doesn't use fake lynch mob claims as an excuse. (5) will deport Bob Filner to somewhere in Mexico where no one will understand Bob when Bob tells everyone to speak english. if the candidate can somehow do at least #5, then that candidate has my vote. lol— August 26, 2013 4:59 p.m.
Emails show top DeMaio operative key to Filner recall
well, so what. does anyone really expect the democratic party and the unions to have been the key behind filner's recall? it is really not surprising that there would be republicans who would be angling to get filner out, as well as planning for what comes after filner and to position themselves and their own people to take advantage of the situation. filner was a trainwreck waiting to happen. and so those people were happily watching the trainwreck and proceeded to move in. and being the republican party out of power, it's no surprise that they were watching filner very carefully and gleefully applauding filner's self-destruction as his missteps multiplied and as his personal awkward social nature resulted in sexually deviant behavior that became very publicly pronounced. geez, you really cannot blame any republicans to be scheming against filner and to use the situation against filner. because, really, you cannot make this stuff up. just watch the trainwreck as it occurs and take advantage of it. unless if you were a filner supporter/sympathizer, then any conspiracy-like connections are things to reach for when trying to assign blame to anyone except for filner himself. filner was a rough-and-tough conniving spectacle that was bright with the various good things he claims responsiblity for in the past, but now in the twilight of his political career, he became blindingly bright for the wrong reasons as seen in his uncontrollable political self-immolation. (sorry, but IMHO the one thing that seems to explain filner being so absolutely stupid with being so open in doing the sexy-harassy thing with female employees and constituents is that he's old and something must be affecting him in his head where he no longer has the self-control that normal people have. ) what one should really hope for, and this is for the democrats out there, is that there are smart democrats out there who were also simultaneously planning for what comes next long before any of this filner nonsense happened -- and are not now playing catch up to what any possible republican conspiracy-like connections may have been planning all along. filner became a nightmare for the democratic party and the unions. and as a nightmare, it is not surprising that the party and the union may have initially been in denial about the situation, when they hoped their past typical excuse that bob-is-just-being-bob would make the situation go away. but it became too late as the republicans have taken advantage of the situation and now the democrats have pull themselves together out of this shock to try to retain (well, regain again) the mayoral office.— August 26, 2013 1:13 p.m.
Just what authority will Council President Todd Gloria have after taking control of Mayor's Office?
Cabal? Kabbal? What? Kinda sounds like a Cabbage Head trying to strangle Filner. lol http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/a…— August 24, 2013 2:09 p.m.
Just what authority will Council President Todd Gloria have after taking control of Mayor's Office?
What authority will Gloria have? He will have the authority to be a much better mayor than Filner. And he can do that with only "limited" authority.— August 24, 2013 1:58 p.m.
City will indemnify resigning Filner, with some hedges
watching filner give his goodbye speech where he caters to his cheering supporters was a real circus. filner, as defiant as ever, was in real denial as were his supporters who were deluded into blindly thinking he could do no wrong. his supporters who were there all seemed to take filner's downfall as if it were all personal attacks on them. all of them are fanboys and fangirls who think that their idol could do no wrong. well, kiddies there is no santa claus and your hero got old and something is really wrong in his head. if anything, he's now a stubborn dirty old man who has problems controlling himself. the only other thing that would have stopped him is if he had a stroke or some other medical event. but he's probably healthy as a horse except for his apparent mental problems. sorry, although he may have been a calculating progressive hero in the past, but he is now one reckless wacko old dude nowadays. his supporters and other sympathizers are going to be crying even more when filner is most likely prosecuted for his OTHER crimes. this game is not even close to being over for filner. when he is prosecuted, it would not be surprising to see if a developing mental defect defense is possibly used as a mitigating factor. filner is just one big sad trainwreak.— August 23, 2013 11 p.m.