Piggs Defend Filner!

[Rhett]

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.

Politics in this town are crazy.

[spdrun]

He didn’t push down a TSA smurf, he pushed an airline clerk.

[njtosd]

[quote=Rhett]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.

Politics in this town are crazy.[/quote]

I’m not saying that I am sure about the dementia theory. However, symptoms of frontal lobe dementia begin in the 50s to early 60s. So it’s possible. With regard to people not reporting sooner, I think that many people who are wronged in one way or another don’t come forward because they fear not being believed. For example, if number 16 was the only one to come forward, would she have been taken seriously? I’m almost certain she wouldn’t.

With respect to Carl DeMaio, I wonder whether he chose to avoid the issue out of desire not to have the focus turned to his own sexual orientation. A gay man criticizing the womanizing behavior of a straight man is taking a risk.

I do wonder whether the Democratic party thought Filner was electable and planned to replace him once he was in office. Or he promised to behave if he were elected and then continued with the bad behavior.

He’s an embarrassment to the city though. I think he should step down.

[Rhett]

[quote=njtosd]I’m not saying that I am sure about the dementia theory. However, symptoms of frontal lobe dementia begin in the 50s to early 60s.[/quote]

In my hometown of a small, mostly inconsequential town in Indiana, there was a well respected guy that owned a shoe store in town that ended up a very major player in the Indiana Republican Party. His major claim to fame was being one of the people that got a guy named Dan Quayle to run for a representative spot that was in play, and after a few terms he was one of the people that saw Birch Bayh as vulnerable and got him to run for senate. We know the rest.

I wasn’t necessarily into his politics, but we had a lot of nice talks, and I was good friends with his youngest daughter. Certainly one of the more respected adults I knew.

Anyhow, this guy ended up, along with being the district party chair, the local trustee – a party gift position. Nothing controversial about that, but one of the things this position dealt with was welfare recipients. Out of the blue, a few accusations of him asking recipients for quid pro quou sexual favors emerged, and it blew up. Lost his position (naturally), ended up divorced, and ended up in prison. They let him out when he was clearly in his last days, and he died a few months later – pretty much in disgrace.

For all I knew, this guy always had a secret life, but I just dodn’t see it being a teenage doof. However, most people, and I guess I, think that he had some sort of brain cancer/tumor/whatever completely mess him up.

DeMaio – the gay thing was not a factor, but I do think that he could have been concerned that people would start digging into the history of his Balboa Park lily pond destroying partner. I found it interesting how they took Fletcher apart because they thought he was less beatable than Slobberin’ Bob.

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