“There’s nothing in Filner’s body that will quit,” one longtime adviser told me yesterday. In another sign that he’s digging in, Filner’s former congressional chief of staff in Washington flew in Sunday to offer disciplined support. In an announcement that stole some of the thunder of the Frye news conference, the mayor anointed the well-respected Walt Ekard as the city’s de facto city manager. Signaling his defiance, however, Filner is restocking his office with fresh talent. Probably not, at least in the court of repelled opinion. Which raises the question: Does this lawyerly distinction trump the graphic allegations doled out by the self-righteous Star Chamber of the Left - judges (and juries) Donna Frye, Marco Gonzalez and Cory Briggs - at their second news conference in five days? Just as the former president tried to argue that one kind (his kind) of sex was not really sexual relations, Filner is positing that his form of sexually charged impropriety, which he has freely admitted, is not really sexual harassment. This parsing of guilt - I’ve been a serially offensive guy but not a legally exposed mayor - is Clintonism at its most sophistical.
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