Posted on 07/31/2013 5:31:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Mayor says didn't get training, San Diego should pay for sex harassment defense Photo 7:37pm EDT
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, under mounting pressure to resign over sexual harassment accusations, deserves to have the city pay for his defense because he never received workplace behavior training, his lawyer has told the city attorney.
Filner's private lawyer Harvey Berger wrote in a letter to City Attorney Jan Goldsmith on Monday that San Diego was legally obligated to provide training to prevent sexual harassment to all management-level employees within six months of their joining the city. Goldsmith's office released the letter on Wednesday.
"The city failed to provide such training to Mayor Filner," Berger wrote. "In fact, it is my understanding that such training was scheduled, but that the trainer for the city unilaterally canceled, and never re-scheduled such training for the mayor (and others.)"
Filner, a former Congressman, was elected mayor of San Diego in November 2012. Berger wrote in his letter that Filner had never received training to prevent sexual harassment when he served the San Diego area as a Congressman between 1993 and 2012.
He added that "if there is any liability at all, the city will almost certainly be liable for 'failing to prevent harassment.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
The ‘Rats are such......rats.
You mean to tell me that we now need one of those goofy government classes with the bags of jelly beans and line dancing in order to know that we should treat others the way we want to be treated? Are you ****ting me? My parents saved the gubmint a lot of money when they raised me and my siblings to live by “The Golden Rule”. Oops! That’s religious. Am I allowed to say that or is it against the NSA rules?
I guess that Filner’s Communist Party organizers parents didn’t have time to teach him how to be normal with women.
He really should have attended classes at the NY Marxist School instead of stalking women in the streets.
Pleading ignorance is an airtight alibi for Democrats.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jul/31/filner-lawyer-shifts-blame-city/
Filthy's lawyer is blaming the city for what his creepy client has been doing since his days in congress?! his is getting downright comical. :-)
What in the heck is wrong with people? My great grand kids know how to act and they are 4 and 5.
Gadzooks. The feminists are right: we do live in a rape culture. And it's a liberal one, at that.
Most of us learn that prekindergarten
You mean you needed training not to be a predator? Your upbringing didn’t take that into account. So you’re naturally a predator but you need training not to be one? How moronic a statement is that? Obviously a Democrat.
you GOTTA be sh!ttin me... i didn't think even a RAT was stooopid enough to say that
You don't know what you're missing. It seems these days in the Navy we're mandated to receive "Rape is Bad" training about every other month. Most recently for me was after an 8-week underway period. We returned on a Thursday and were supposed to enjoy a well-earned 3-day weekend only to be told we all had to come in a Friday morning to watch some silly navy-produced video on sexual assault. I'm sure you remember these videos. The ones that make "Reefer Madness" look like a Spielberg film.
Training? What kind of training did he need?
“Don’t put your hand down there, don’t touch it. It don’t belong to you!”
“Couldn’t he just use the I’m a Democrat clause?”
That’s what he’s doing. Teaching him not to grab a woman’s @$$ should have come from family first and then church and school, but he is a democrat and with high office apparently comes a sense of entitlement and absolute power over the proles.
Thanks Sub-Driver.
How Long Did National Democrats Know About Bob Filner’s Serial Misogyny?
Guy Benson | Jul 31, 2013
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/07/31/how-long-did-national-democrats-know-about-bob-filners-serial-misogyny-n1653464
Well, you know, we can't have any of that Judeo-Christian influence creeping in...
Don’t blame society for your warped training, blame your communist parents!
“Would I be way off base to assume that this clown’s a Rat? “
He’s registered that way but he was born and raised a communist!
Unfortunately, in our "new school" culture, you've just described a good chunk of the male population, because, well, we all know why...
Granted that there have always been SOME jerks.
(I'd be willing to bet that the incidence of such behavior among male FReepers is so low that it would stun sociologists.)
Mr. Lippman: It’s come to my attention that you and the cleaning woman have engaged in sexual intercourse on the desk in your office. Is that correct?
George Costanza: Who said that?
Mr. Lippman: She did.
George Costanza: [pause] Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
Mr. Lippman: You’re fired!
George Costanza: Well, you didn’t have to say it like that.
Republicans are Ball-Less!!
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