[MYFOXDETROIT] An attorney for a woman suing San Diego's embattled mayor for sexual harassment says the two sides are in settlement talks.
Lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents Mayor Bob Filner's former communications director, said Monday that a retired federal judge is mediating negotiations.
Allred says the talks are ongoing and she can't comment further. It isn't known if Filner is present.
Filner faces a recall effort prompted by a cascade of sexual harassment allegations that led to calls by the City Council to resign.
Filner has been out of the public's eye for the past two weeks while undergoing therapy. He was spotted Monday entering an office building followed by Allred.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/20/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Talks consist of,
"You quit and we don't sue."
Filner "I don't wanna".
OK SUE. (And run you out of office)
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
08/20/2013 0:47 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Filner has been out of the public's eye for the past three weeks while undergoing therapy.
And won't be back Tuesday.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
08/20/2013 0:53 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Both will agree for the tax payers of San Diego to foot the bill.
#4
And so we see that it's all about the money. That's how Gloria was able to coax all these women out of the woodwork. Proving in a court of law that he broke the law or actually harmed anyone is one thing. Getting him to pay money to avoid an expensive, prolonged, embarrassing lawsuit is gonna be far easier. Either way you can bet that Gloria will get her cut. Mind you, none of this is intended to imply that Filner doesn't deserve it. It's red on Allred as far as I'm concerned. Definitely popcorn worthy. Now if we could just get old Bob to hit on Gloria...who knows? She might go for it.
[MYFOXDETROIT] The phone rang. It was late. I peeled myself out of bed. Someone was calling with the latest election conspiracy.
She said there were photographs of a group of men manipulating election ballots after the polls had closed Tuesday night on bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... 's primary.
Those photos have yet to materialize, but the thing about conspiracy theories is that there is always a sniff of truth to them.
So I took a second look at the election results on Friday morning. And the numbers are so curious that at least one election lawyer is calling for an investigation and federal monitoring of Detroit's general election this November.
According to unofficial returns provided by the Detroit Board of Elections -- a division of the County Clerk's office -- 96,000 people voted for mayor out of a possible 538,000 registered voters.
there were only 514,000 adults living in Detroit in 2012, according to Census Bureau estimates that most demographic experts consider to be a rosy. Even so, that would mean that 105 percent of the Detroit adult population is registered to vote
The problem is, there were only 514,000 adults living in Detroit in 2012, according to Census Bureau estimates that most demographic experts consider to be a rosy. Even so, that would mean that 105 percent of the Detroit adult population is registered to vote. As anyone knows, you can't get higher than 100 percent.
City Clerk Janice Winfrey did not respond to numerous phone calls or a visit to the Board of Elections. And curiously, Daniel Baxter, the director of the board of elections retired Friday morning.
Deputy Director Gina Avery said federal law requires that her office hold the rolls for two federal election cycles before inactive voters are purged. That last purge was supposed to be earlier this year.
Assuming that, Detroit has more than 100 percent of its adults registered to vote -- impossible according to the math I learned in public school. The national average is 86 percent, according to the Census Bureau.
Assuming Detroit is an "average" pocket of America -- a stretch to say the least -- one could reasonably assume there should be 463,000 registered voters in Detroit -- 75,000 fewer than now reported.
The potential for fraud is enormous said Todd Perkins, a Detroit election lawyer. "The numbers that Winfrey has of registered numbers do not comport with the numbers of other urban environments," he said. "She's had so much scrutiny, so many problems it would do us justice to have some oversight from the state or a federal monitor. It stinks to high heaven."
The problems at Winfrey's office have garnered plenty of headlines this cycle. Winfrey certified the candidacy of Mike Duggan only to have it overturned in court on residency issues. Her opponent for clerk D. Etta Wilcoxon had to sue to get on the ballot after Winfrey ruled that some of her petition signatures were invalid. Her office also left one valid city council candidate off the ballot.
So is the fix in or is it incompetence?
"When I ran four years ago, I questioned that," said Bettie Cook-Scott, a city council candidate for District 4. "I think some of the abandoned homes were voting and maybe possibly some people who are not here anymore."
And then there is this: the unofficial tally for mayoral write-in candidates was about 50,000. But counting the unofficial raw data, the total votes for write-in candidates was 46,000 with Mike Duggan getting 44,395. So what happened to the other 8 percent? Remember, 8 percent is a landslide in any election. Obama won last year by less than 4 percent of the vote.
Everybody knows that the second thing you have to be able to count in a Democracy is money. The first thing you have to be able to count is the peoples' vote. You can't do that, you can kiss it good-bye.
Clerk Winfrey needs to come out of her badger hole and explain this. For the sake of the people.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/20/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11123 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Well you see if you include all the cemeteries ... it comes out about right.
#7
In my wild misspent youth I helped design the Los Angeles County Election System (LACES). One of the managers at the Registrar of Voters told me he was still registered to vote in LAC even though he and his wife had moved to Orange Country 4 years ago.
Theoretically he could vote twice in an election:
Once in LAC during the day and again in Orange County. No one would ever know.
Al
Posted by: Frozen Al ||
08/20/2013 11:16 Comments ||
Top||
#8
"I think some of the abandoned homes were voting"
[Townhall] This past Thursday, the Champ Regime quietly introduced a new endeavor intended to park money address the environmental effects of manmade objects that travel at supersonic speeds. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney revealed the program, adding that, "In the eight years preceding this Administration That would be under the evil Bushitler administration as you may recall.
....no attention was given to residual supersonic atmospheric disturbances, especially on healthcare costs [note Unaffordable Healthcare Act linkage].
This President will step up where others before him would not." "Stepping up" with other people's money (OPM), how courageous of him.
Put simply, how do we repair the sound barrier? Not sure, that's why we need billions of dollars, possibly trillions.
The massive program, funded at an estimated $8.7 billion, is comprised of both research and policy advancements. The science will be provided in a joint effort between two nati
#3
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy stated in a written release Friday that, We are proud to accept this responsible position as world citizens in owning up to the effects of our historical aggression with air speed.
This is a reprint of the Onion right?
Mother nature often exceeds the sound barrier as recently witnessed and felt by the citizens of Chelyabinsk Russia.
I'd accept the admission by the administrator that the EPA is official anti-human.
#6
I think after reading the last paragraph, the ultimate point is
1.Come up with a regulation goal
2.Decide which non-regulated regulation group will enforce it.
3.Make up a reason.
#7
Clinton cancelled the supercollider cause it was going to be built in red state Texas. Now, with the LHC operating in Europe, we come full circle and build a vastly inferior device in a blue state for all the wrong reasons. Oof...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
08/20/2013 9:24 Comments ||
Top||
#8
does anyone besides the govt (military) really have the ability to regularly break the sound barrier?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MYFOXDETROIT] The phone rang. It was late. I peeled myself out of bed. Someone was calling with the latest election conspiracy.
