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PoliticAverse

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Fri Jul 26, 2013, 02:26 PM Jul 2013

DNC leader urges Filner to resign

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee is calling on San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to resign after four more women said they were targets of his sexual advances.

Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz leads the DNC. She says the misconduct Filner has been accused of is, quote, "reprehensible and indefensible."

Wasserman Schultz says there is, quote, "no place for this type of conduct in the workplace and certainly not in our city halls and public offices."


Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SAN_DIEGO_MAYOR_DEMOCRATS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-07-26-12-34-31

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DNC leader urges Filner to resign (Original Post) PoliticAverse Jul 2013 OP
Good It is time for him to go! hrmjustin Jul 2013 #1
K&r uppityperson Jul 2013 #2
Others who have called on Filner to resign: alp227 Jul 2013 #3
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