What you always wanted to know...
One time or another we've all experienced that unsettled, mid-gut sensation. Strangely, it always feels the same -- whether the cause is dread, pleasurable anticipation, or a pesty upset stomach.
This affliction has gone viral ever since San Diego elected a mayor who happens to possess the following attributes:
- the habit of straight-talk (Bob Filner says it aloud whenever the emperor has no clothes)
- common sense (he deals with obvious, ordinary facts and cuts through subterfuge)
- an agenda oriented toward the broad public welfare (good jobs, neighborhood benefits, local representation, face-to--face interaction)
- independence (no kowtowing to the established and influential downtown elite)
- a sense of humor (sometimes going for the jugular)
- an openly-admitted tendency toward intolerance (specifically targeting local corporate welfare schemes and generous financial giveaways, as well as noxious air, water, and neighborhood pollution)
- ambitious ideas to create a healthy, vibrant, diversified economy and cultural environment in San Diego (maritime/port development, top-notch understanding of the benefits of binational coordination, going 'green,' reinvigorating community planning and regeneration, stringent standards for city contracts, endorsement of 'the arts')
Yes, Bob Filner is giving a lot of San Diego greybeards a bad case of heartburn. How?
