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City Attorney's Office responds to sexual harassment lawsuit on Filner's behalf
No I never hated him. The Millet-style feminism was misguided. There's a weft of that legacy in this warp.— September 12, 2013 7:28 a.m.
City Attorney's Office responds to sexual harassment lawsuit on Filner's behalf
Thanks for providing the doc. "You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.” - Norman Mailer Irene likes this. Though her tweets are locked, we know she likes it thanks to her UT friend Karen. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/s… http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/s…— September 11, 2013 7:49 p.m.
Qualcomm's Jacobs fishing for funds for Fletcher
SDCERS: It surprises me how many overlapping circles that city/county government hirees have. For example, IMJ was once married to Robert F. Jackson, a SD policeman. Another Filner suer's witness is Park & Rec's Lori Charett, who used to be married to a SD cop, Frank A. Gerbac. Both Frank Gerbac and Robert Jackson were involved in lawsuits against the City and/or SDCERS, and were represented by the same firm (http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=…). No big deal, it just surprises me that how many people have intertwined histories.— September 8, 2013 1:20 p.m.
Qualcomm's Jacobs fishing for funds for Fletcher
Who knows? http://clubweb.rotary33.org/pdf/newsletter230.pdf This Rotary Club bulletin welcomes McCormack in 2009 and says she is married to someone named Gordon Davis. Who is that? The Deputy DA Gordon Davis who works in the Dumanis' office? Just curious.— September 8, 2013 9:06 a.m.
Qualcomm's Jacobs fishing for funds for Fletcher
Yank, I know. (I hope you aren't being facetious.) I've donated to Monarch. When Froman came on board I didn't like it. I'm still concerned with the kids and their difficulties, but the infection by the SDCFRW turns me off. The "conservative" book donation drive to these kids' library was the last straw. I don't even want to look on the shelves to see what the 500 books are. I can't imagine what the Repub women think would be suitable "conservative" reading for grade-school homeless kids.— September 7, 2013 2:47 p.m.
Qualcomm's Jacobs fishing for funds for Fletcher
PsychoL, Well, it's beating a dead horse to keep pondering it (at least for us it's dead), but, in IMJ's complaint, the entire sequence of comments that were allegedly offensive seem oddly like what would be said to someone with whom there was a relationship, or the hope of a relationship. Either what I've heard from someone who tried to go through IMJ to meet w/Filner is true (that she behaved possessively, as if she were involved w/the mayor on a level beyond boss/employee), or Filner believed that it was true that she was interested and that something was possible between them. If the latter, then his affection and interest and desire (which is what is described in the complaint), though misplaced and unwelcomed, shouldn't have evoked fury and hostility. Pity and concern would be more normal in that case, and HR or someone should have been contacted. Whatever. Let a jury decide.— September 7, 2013 2 p.m.
Qualcomm's Jacobs fishing for funds for Fletcher
Thanks, Pat. I looked at the complaint. It alleges the comment was made late Feb/early March, with no witnesses. Only IMJ and Filner, alone in an elevator. It was in June, with Allen Jones acting as interventionist but not ever witnessing anything, that she asserted in front of others that Filner had said that.— September 7, 2013 11:46 a.m.
Consultant Marco Li Mandri asks City to pay $25,000 in fees for the long-delayed Barrio Logan Maintenance Assessment District
Why Alvarez got involved with Li Mandri in 2011 is a big puzzle. In Alvarez' own words, "the story isn't told." Can't wait to ask him to explain, as he runs for mayor. In 2011 Li Mandri started this project for Alvarez by creating and sending coyly worded questionnaires to select Barrio Logan property owners. Some old-time activists in the community were purposely left out of that loop and were surprised and angry to learn about it after the fact. This testing of the waters was done in a sneaky way, maybe because of the winning lawsuit against an identical MAD at the time. When the metrics of who would vote for a Barrio Logan assessment and who wouldn't were weighed, it didn't look good. Some well-known property owners (Reina Camarillo, Denise Ducheny, Nick Inzunza/Olga Payan, Bersin/Silberman/Foster, Eduardo Johnston, Chicano Federation, VFW, and others, including wealthy North County investors) must have said NO to the idea, and their NO vote would have killed the district. Blocks with their properties were excluded from the assessment boundary. Although they are on the same street, across the street, or adjacent to assessed properties, they don't have to pay like their NO-voting neighbors do. It's that simple: those, such as Li Mandri and Shea, who want to collect and control assessments define the district borders to include as many properties as possible, but exclude those that would tip the vote against district formation. The final vote was 82 YES and 81 NO, with the value of the assessments on each side being the deciding factor. Nicely rigged. Alvarez has lots of questions to answer about this. He hooked up with Li Mandri at the time that the court ruled the Golden Hill MAD illegal, and this BL MAD is identical. It's only wordsmithing that sets it apart. In fact, Li Mandri was the architect of the GH MAD in 2000, and using the same propagandistic questionnaire and talk. Why, why, why did Alvarez pursue this in 2011, and in such a sneaky way? Why would he defend and associate with someone as shady and greedy as Li Mandri? Why would he do this to the people of Barrio Logan? Someone needs to ask.— September 7, 2013 9:36 a.m.
Qualcomm's Jacobs fishing for funds for Fletcher
Pat, Do you know the date that the "panties" remark was supposed to have been made? I ask because of Ronne Froman's involvement w/Monarch School, and the April 3 2013 SD County Federation of Republican Women's Lingerie Project (asking Repub women for donations of panties and such for the girls at Monarch - see https://www.facebook.com/sdcfrw/timeline). I've wondered if something was said in the Mayor's office, or joked about, in that context, rather than what Jackson-McCormack claims. Guess panties donations are better than the 500 books netted in the huge SDCFRW drive to get the RIGHT (conservative) books for the Monarch library (as you can see in the FB page). Here's the May 22 2013 text in the SDCFRW FB page: "Dear Ladies, at the June 10 Co. meeting we are having a Book Drive for the Monarch School (school for homeless) to fill their new library with the RIGHT books. Can you being [sic] a new book or two for ages K-12th grade - with a conservative inspirational message? The homeless children love to read - bless their hearts!" Right-wing screeds. Just what homeless kids need. Bless their hearts, yeah, sure. Is that pathetic?— September 7, 2013 8:49 a.m.
Qualcomm's Jacobs fishing for funds for Fletcher
Have an eye-opening look at the two contenders, Fletcher and Faulconer, posed side-by-side with their party-loyal wives in the setting that was most comfortable for them in the past, and to which Mindy and Nate hope to return. The photo is about a third of the way down the page: http://www.thesocialdiary.com/alonzoawards2010.ht… > *We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again, And by that destiny > to perform an act Whereof what's past > is prologue, what to come In yours and > my discharge.*— September 6, 2013 10:52 p.m.