{"id":2966,"date":"2013-08-13T08:17:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2013-08-13T08:17:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T15:17:20","slug":"mayor-filthy-filner-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/08\/13\/mayor-filthy-filner-more-equal-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor &#8220;Filthy&#8221; Filner:  More Equal Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By now the well over two dozen women who have come forward to accuse current San Diego Mayor Bob &#8220;Filthy&#8221; Filner of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching, including his hunting for nookie amongst rape victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2969\" title=\"Filthy_Filner\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Filthy_Filner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Filthy_Filner.jpg 400w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Filthy_Filner-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It has also been revealed that the Democratic party <em>knew<\/em> of many of these accusations yet did nothing.\u00a0 This is the same Democratic party that purportedly defends women (or at least their access to free abortions and enough contraceptives to sleep with all of Liechtenstein), are themselves waging a &#8220;War on Women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Why does Filner get a pass for his conduct? \u00a0<a title=\"Alec Baldwin, More Equal than Others\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/07\/01\/alec-baldwin-more-equal-than-others\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simply<\/a>, &#8220;he is an otherwise loyal soldier for the left.\u00a0 The more useful people are to the leftist cause, the more leeway they get.&#8221;\u00a0 This is because the &#8220;War on Women&#8221; isn&#8217;t about women at all, it is about the <em>narrative<\/em>.\u00a0 Attacking conservatives and Republicans serves that narrative, while attacking Filner would hamper it.\u00a0 Thus they blindly defend Filner, just as they defended President Clinton when he was accused of rape.\u00a0 It is also why they took Romney&#8217;s story of seeking out qualified women and even engaging in Affirmative Action for women, and turned it into a &#8220;Binders full of Women&#8221; anti-women meme!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If there is any doubt of this sentiment, San Diego Democratic Chairwoman Francine Busby eliminates all doubt.\u00a0 She <a href=\"http:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2013\/07\/11\/ex-legislator-i-warned-democratic-party-about-filner-two-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">made it clear<\/a> that: &#8220;party leaders looked at Filner\u2019s 30-year record of advocating for progressive causes when evaluating him as a candidate for mayor. Discussions involving Filner\u2019s poor treatment of women never rose above rumor, she said.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So, who is <em>really<\/em> waging a &#8220;War on Women&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By now the well over two dozen women who have come forward to accuse current San Diego Mayor Bob &#8220;Filthy&#8221; Filner of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching, including his hunting for nookie amongst rape victims. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It has also been revealed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/08\/13\/mayor-filthy-filner-more-equal-than-others\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[15,48,57],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-social-justice","tag-war-on-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}