Donald H. Harrison

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Recently, I spoke at length on the phone with Logan Jenkins, columnist for the Union-Tribune, about the travails of our Jewish Mayor Bob Filner. Jenkins was worried by whispers he has heard in the Jewish community: could the coverage of his newspaper and that of the media generally […]

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — When San Diego Mayor Bob Filner checks into a behavioral modification treatment center to deal with what he has described as his “problem” and his “intimidating” conduct toward women, I hope he will use the two-week period of retreat from the glare of media  headlines, late-night comedians’ jibes,

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In downtown San Diego, one of the federal courthouses is named for Judge Jacob Weinberger, who I’m certain would be shaking his head right now.  All this speculation about Mayor Bob Filner’s guilt or innocence would have him wondering whatever happened to the deliberative justice system in

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — For those of us who believe in civil processes for the resolution of disputes, I would say that there were three good stories on the front page of the Union-Tribune on Saturday morning, July 20.   Good news, too, sometimes comes in threes. The articles weren’t displayed in

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–I think it is in the city’s best interest if Mayor Bob Filner reasserts his position as the elected leader of our city and stops feeling he has to avoid public appearances or meetings with the news media. For the benefit of the City of San Diego, Mayor Filner needs

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Recently I received an interesting email from two sisters in Ontario, Canada, who wanted to know if there was a Jewish museum in San Diego or anything else Jewish that they could see on a planned 2 1/2 day visit  to our city. What I told them in the body

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The pressure on politicians to rush to judgments about their fellow politicians must be overwhelming.  On Monday, Democratic Congressman Scott Peters, who has been constantly badgered by the Republican National Committee to join in the howls for Mayor Bob Filner’s resignation, succumbed.  So too did Democratic Congresswoman Susan

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– The Union-Tribune reported on Saturday morning that according to its poll 59 percent of the people of San Diego want Mayor Bob Filner to resign.   And, if he doesn’t resign, according to the same poll, nearly two-thirds of those who want him to resign–74 percent–want him to be recalled.

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Evidently Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, San Diego City Council President Todd Gloria and Vince Hall, who resigned Friday as Mayor Bob Filner’s chief of staff, are privy to information they don’t feel the public is entitled to know. All four of these powerful Democrats

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–If it were likened to a tennis match, Donna Frye and her two lawyer friends came up with a very weak serve in their effort to force Bob Filner to resign as mayor.   Filner decisively volleyed the political ball right back to them, leaving them to scramble for a way

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The accusations against Mayor Bob Filner are coming fast and furious, and I feel heartsick that the Jewish mayor’s administration seems to be imploding. He’s been accused of improperly soliciting payment from land developers to the city treasury for his favorite projects, an accusation that has evidently aroused