[quote=bearishgurl]
Piggs, we need to ask ourselves how Filner got re-elected four times to Congress in the 50th and 51st Districts while seemingly never having any issues with “coming onto” or “groping” women he came into contact with on official duties. At least not any issues which were made public.
-Could it be that women residing in the Washington DC area, in general, have thicker skin (or are possibly far less litigious than women in SD are)?
-Or did he recently experience a trauma which changed his personality?
-OR, more likely, IMHO, did he (unknowingly) enter into a hotbed of entrenched political dysfunction when he ran for and won the mayoral seat for the City of SD??
Methinks that the 1st scenario (1/3) and the 3rd scenario (2/3) played their parts in the position City and Filner find themselves in today.
I just feel that it’s very unfortunate for SD on many levels that this public maelstrom went down the way it did.[/quote]
This is what I find so suspicious. If these things have been going on for years, even when he was a congressman, why did they just come out now?
Of course, the issue of dementia is certainly a possibility if he’s only recently shown this type of behavior.