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City Hall opened as usual stanley tumblers Monday but Mayor Bob Filner was nowhere to be found, still out of public view as he tries to survive a recall effort prompte stanley cup d by a cascade of sexual harassment allegations that led the entire City Council and many leading fellow Democrats to call for him to resign.City Council President Todd Gloria said he didn t know if Filner would make a public appearance on Monday, the day the mayor promised to return to work after receiving two weeks of therapy to address behavioral issues.Filner is not obligated to show up but owes the people of San Diego an explanation of his whereabouts, Gloria said. The city s daily operations have been running fine without Filner, he said, and should the mayor appear it could make female employees uncomfortable. Great-grandmother accuses Filner of sexual harassmentSan Diego citizens on mayor s return: Time to throw him out Tho stanley cup se of us who have called on the mayor to resign know he is not being effective at this time, Gloria said. The mayor s presence is a distraction. According to San Diego s 10News, Filner s attorneys were in a mediation session Monday morning with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing some of the women who claim they were sexually harassed by the mayor. The station reported that the lawyers were negotiating a deal that could lead to Filner s resignation. While the mayor wasn t at City Hall Monday, about 80 of Filne Jajv Michelle Obama says she has low-grade depression
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour of combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting first with U.S. troops in Kuwait and then flying to Afghanistan - the scene of a war he says deserves more attention and more troops.The delegation met with top military leaders and troops at Bagram Air Field, the main U.S. military base in the country, according to a U.S. military statement.The Senator also stopped in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan to meet with local Afghan leaders and U.S. military commanders for a first-hand assessment, reports CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan. Jalalabad lies near the Tora Bora mountains where al Qaeda leaders stanley cup fled to and faced a U.S. bombardment during the U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban regime in late 2001 after the Sept. 11 attacks.Obama and others in the delegation received a briefing inside the U.S. base from the Afghan provincial governor of Nangarhar, Gul Agha Sherzai, a no-nonsense, stanley cups bullish former warlord. Obama promised us that if he becomes a president in the future, he will support and help Afghanistan not only in its security sector but also in reconstruction, development and economic sector, Sherzai told The Associated Press.The Illinois sen vaso stanley ator arrived Saturday as part of an official congressional delegation, but the Afghan visit, Obama s first and coming less than four months before the general election, was rich with po
City Hall opened as usual stanley tumblers Monday but Mayor Bob Filner was nowhere to be found, still out of public view as he tries to survive a recall effort prompte stanley cup d by a cascade of sexual harassment allegations that led the entire City Council and many leading fellow Democrats to call for him to resign.City Council President Todd Gloria said he didn t know if Filner would make a public appearance on Monday, the day the mayor promised to return to work after receiving two weeks of therapy to address behavioral issues.Filner is not obligated to show up but owes the people of San Diego an explanation of his whereabouts, Gloria said. The city s daily operations have been running fine without Filner, he said, and should the mayor appear it could make female employees uncomfortable. Great-grandmother accuses Filner of sexual harassmentSan Diego citizens on mayor s return: Time to throw him out Tho stanley cup se of us who have called on the mayor to resign know he is not being effective at this time, Gloria said. The mayor s presence is a distraction. According to San Diego s 10News, Filner s attorneys were in a mediation session Monday morning with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing some of the women who claim they were sexually harassed by the mayor. The station reported that the lawyers were negotiating a deal that could lead to Filner s resignation. While the mayor wasn t at City Hall Monday, about 80 of Filne Jajv Michelle Obama says she has low-grade depression
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour of combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting first with U.S. troops in Kuwait and then flying to Afghanistan - the scene of a war he says deserves more attention and more troops.The delegation met with top military leaders and troops at Bagram Air Field, the main U.S. military base in the country, according to a U.S. military statement.The Senator also stopped in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan to meet with local Afghan leaders and U.S. military commanders for a first-hand assessment, reports CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan. Jalalabad lies near the Tora Bora mountains where al Qaeda leaders stanley cup fled to and faced a U.S. bombardment during the U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban regime in late 2001 after the Sept. 11 attacks.Obama and others in the delegation received a briefing inside the U.S. base from the Afghan provincial governor of Nangarhar, Gul Agha Sherzai, a no-nonsense, stanley cups bullish former warlord. Obama promised us that if he becomes a president in the future, he will support and help Afghanistan not only in its security sector but also in reconstruction, development and economic sector, Sherzai told The Associated Press.The Illinois sen vaso stanley ator arrived Saturday as part of an official congressional delegation, but the Afghan visit, Obama s first and coming less than four months before the general election, was rich with po