[UTSANDIEGO] Mayor Bob Filner is ending his intensive behavioral therapy triggered by sexual harassment allegations earlier than expected while officials on Friday said the locks had been changed at his office.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... his political support continued to crater as his last two allies on the City Council called for his resignation, making it unanimous, and U.S. Sen. Barbara Call me Senator! Boxer Senator-for-Life from Caliphornia... reiterated her call for him to step down in an impassioned open letter to the mayor.
It was another head-snapping day in the monthlong scandal that has enveloped City Hall as investigations by state, federal and local agencies continue into the sexual harassment claims and more.
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith confirmed that the locks were changed at the 11th-floor City Hall office of the mayor but said he couldn't say why.
"The fact is that I had the locks changed to protect the Mayor while he is away," Burdick told the Voice of San Diego via email Saturday. "My concern is/was that if anything was removed while the Mayor was away, it could raise all kinds of questions about preservation or spoliation of potential evidence. Because I could not possibly determine everyone who had keys, I believed it was necessary to ensure the integrity of his physical office in his absence. The Mayor will be given the keys upon his return."
An attorney hired by Filner to represent him in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by his former top communications aide, Irene McCormack Jackson, said Filner will continue his therapy as an outpatient.
"Upon completion of the treatment program, Mayor Filner is planning to continue therapy sessions on an outpatient basis," said a statement from the office of attorney, James L. Payne of Los Angeles. "Mayor Filner is taking personal time next week and will be unavailable for comment. At this time, we do not have information as to when he will be available for comment."
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"The Mayor will be given the keys upon his return."
Along with a six month stay at a resort in Zanzibar.
[DAILYCALLER] San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's endurance in the face of mounting sexual harassment accusations may be driven by his need to get out of an even bigger problem: a federal criminal investigation that has received little attention from the national media.
The San Diego Creeper is the subject of an FBI probe of what looks like a quid-pro-quo arrangement with a local developer. In June local media obtained a voicemail Tom Story of Sunroad Centrum Partners left for various city council members regarding a $100,000 "gift" he made to two public projects Filner favored.
At the time, Sunroad was looking to use public land for a project in Kearney Mesa. Story's strikingly direct voicemail indicates Filner agreed to give Sunroad the easement in exchange for the donation.
"I'd like the council member to know that we have reached an agreement with the mayor's office," Story's message said. "We have paid him the money that was requested and was told that the mayor would support the override."
The FBI will not comment on open investigations.
But in early July Brent Seibert of U-T San Diego reported that FBI agents had visited more than one city council member about the $100,000 in checks. Other observers of America's Finest City report that Filner may be deposed in the potential extortion probe August 19.
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More: it wasn't really a Q-P-Q. Sunroad did a poor design and realized they needed a 5' easement for fire code on the Condo windows on a park edge - a park they paid for and turned over to the City. They offered to give $100K to the City for the easement (half the $200K it would cost them to upgrade the windows) - a reasonable deal which municipalities do all the time and apply to the area of development or that particular park - what would the City build against a fenceline 2' from Condo windows anyway? The problem is Mayor Grabby Grabby used the $ for two of his pet causes in another area of town unrelated to the development, and unapproved by the Council. That is more like extortion
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Arriving in the idyllic coastal retreat of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, Mr Obama left behind him in Washington DC high profile debates over the budget, government surveillance and his health care reforms. Instead, he will spend the next eight days playing golf, going to the beach, and buying books from the Bunch of Grapes bookstore. In the air he swapped his suit and tie for khakis and a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves, while Mrs Obama wore a yellow-and-white summer dress.
When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to the seaside things can get complicated. Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents, someone has to carry a selection of presidential basketballs, and of course the family dog needs his own state-of-the-art aircraft. Bo, the president's Portuguese Water Dog, arrived separately on one of two MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane. It was the first time the Ospreys have been taken on holiday by a US president.
Menawhile the guys flying and maintaining them are facing a pay freeze and an increase in their families' medical.
More than 70 hotel rooms, each costing up to $345 (£220) a night, have been booked out for Secret Service agents, who took charge of luggage including two large mesh bags full of basketballs.
The Obamas are staying in Chilmark on the western tip of the island, an area that is dotted with multi-million dollar homes. The neighbours include actor Ted Danson and the singer Carly Simon. On several previous visits the Obamas had stayed at the 28-acre Blue Heron Farm, but it has since been sold to Britain's most celebrated architect, Baron Foster of Thames Bank.
The president has therefore had to downsize to a $7.6 million, 5,000-square foot retreat on nine acres which is owned by a businessman friend from Chicago. It includes a basketball court. As a result Mr Obama will be staying closer to public roads which will have to be closed as his motorcade heads for the golf course of bookshop.
The Martha's Vineyard Times newspaper warned residents to expect "extraordinary and lengthy up-island detours". Local officials also emailed residents, saying: "Anyone aggrieved by this closing should email or call the White House."
Expect a follow up call from the IRS.
Jay Carney, White House spokesman, said: "Obviously, when you're President of the United States, you carry a little baggage when you travel. And that's true whether it's on a summit, international meeting, a domestic trip, or for a vacation. I know he's looking forward very much to some down time with his family. I'm sure he'll see some friends."
[NYDAILYNEWS] Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner's ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... campaign fund-raising has virtually dried up since revelations of a sexting relapse rocked his bid for mayor.
Weiner (inset) received an average of just $1,897 a day in donations since the new sexting scandal erupted July 23, campaign finance records released Friday show.
Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, collected no money on his behalf since the new sexting allegations emerged, after she collected nearly $150,000 in the first 50 days of his candidacy.
Weiner's campaign reeled in $821,706 in the first 50 days of his candidacy. But from July 24 through Aug. 5, Team Weiner took in a measly $24,014, the records show.
Despite the diminished fund-raising, Weiner still has a $6.17 million war chest, which includes more than $4 million raised before he quit Congress plus $1.46 million received under the city's campaign finance program.
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Is six million enough to buy the office?
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They must've expected or anticipated this to happen - my instinct are saying some kind of ulterior agenda or interest is at play, but what???
Iff Babe Huma is planning to run for political office as a Muslim + femme victim of arrogant Fascist Male Dastardliness, it may not be enuff by itself.
My brother in Korea saw this. I checked several days last week. How did we miss it? Maybe we just assumed it was a already done deal? We saw it.
Senators, representatives, and their top aides will be able to stay under the current subsidized health care system. That means they will continue to get a taxpayer-funded contribution to help pay for their health care premiums.
A last-minute deal worked out before Congress went on their five-week summer vacation gets lawmakers out of the original language of Obamacare, which said members and their aides had to use its health care plans. That what happens when you pass a law before you read it!
Republicans like Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana slammed the move, calling it a "behind-closed-doors deal, announced right after Congress is safely away from the crime scene."
"This is exactly why America rightly hates Washington," Vitter charged. "Obamacare's a train wreck, even for Congress. So it gets fixed - for Congress only. What the flip about fixing it for America?" You mean the worker class, Senator? If the Pubs really want to crank the issue, have the House propose to give every person and every business a one-year waiver from Obamacare, and dare the Dems to vote against it...
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> taxpayer-funded contribution to help pay for their health care premiums
Which won't be treated as earnings for tax purposes!
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Even the notion of something like this pushes my blood pressure up, but I am more saddened than angry. If this exemption scheme stands, we have just been given irrefutable proof of the contemptible caliber of our elected officials. This, along with other recent scandals, leaves the sustainment of the republic in very real question.
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