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SD Mayor Bob Filner apologizes, seeks help amid harassment claims

By Take Two Staff
Published Jul 12, 2013
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's own political party Thursday called for the leader of the nation's eighth-largest city to resign as four more women identified themselves as targets of his sexual advances. (File photo: Bob Filner in Washington D.C. May 6, 2008).
Committee chairman Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., questions Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake, not pictured, at the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing regarding veterans' suicides on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Filner was elected mayor of San Diego in 2012.
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Charles Dharapak
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SD Mayor Bob Filner apologizes, seeks help amid harassment claims

The mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner, has been under fire recently after being accused of sexually harassing several female staffers.

Filner has not publicly spoken on the matter, but released a video late yesterday where he apologized to the public and promised to change his behavior. 

Mark Sauer, the Senior News Editor at KPBS in San Diego, joins the program with an update.

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner issues statement regarding sexual harassment allegations by scprweb