Nick Allen
telegraph.co.uk
July 23, 2013
Bob Filner, the mayor of San Diego is being sued for sexual harassment by his former press spokesman who accused him of putting her in a “headlock” and asking her to “get naked.”
Mr Filner, 70, who previously served 20 years as a US congressman for California’s second largest city, was alleged to have gripped an arm around the neck of communications officer Irene McCormack Jackson, 57, suggesting they get married and telling her: “Wouldn’t it be great if we consummated the marriage?”
On another occasion in her office at City Hall the twice-divorced mayor was said to have asked her: “When are you going to get naked? Come on and give me a kiss.” He was also alleged to have asked her to work with no underwear on.
The allegations were detailed in an 11-page court complaint. Ms McCormack Jackson, a former journalist who stopped working for the mayor in June, said her former boss was “not fit to be the mayor of our great city.”
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