Going to need community now more than ever. "Filner’s rise and fall in San Diego has highlighted the racial and social-economic divisions with the city, which lie roughly (but not exclusively) north and south of Interstate 8. Higher than expected voter turnout in minority and economically challenged areas in the southern part of the city played a key role in Filner’s November victory. The mayor’s resignation is a bitter pill for those folks. Only once in recent history had they seen a candidate that seemed responsive to their needs; who’d openly promised to take on the economic and political forces that’d neglected basic infrastructure needs in neighborhoods throughout the city even as shiny new public financed structures were built downtown. And now he is gone. There can be no way of telling whether Bob Filner could or would have delivered on his implied and explicit promises. Many politicians have won with lots of promises and then failed to deliver. At least with Filner in office they had hope."
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:14:47 +0000
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