I’m not sure I get the dementia theory – aren’t a lot of the “16” reporting incidents that took place 5-10 years ago, back during Filner’s Washington days? And why weren’t at least a few of those things reported then? Is the quid pro quo system inside the Beltway so great that all of these women felt they were going to lose some sort of tangible benefit by coming forward?
We had a sniff of this behavior when Bob had that nasty run-in with a TSA agent. Like many other people, I sort of ignored this, because it was the *TSA* after all, an entity that has employees that piss off otherwise reasonable people. We also had Carl DeMaio come forward during a debate and hint that Filner had issues, but I thought that was just an extension of the TSA issue, and he didn’t suggest otherwise.
If they knew more – and it certainly sounds like they did – I don’t get is why DeMaio’s camp didn’t exploit this for what it was worth during the election run-up. Did their numbers suggest that wouldn’t need to go that route? If I didn’t know better, it almost seemed as if they *tried* to sandbag the election for themselves.
