Ten-term Rep. Bob Filner had successfully traded a comfortable chair in the U.S. Congress for the hot seat of his adopted hometown’s highest office, where the responsibilities — and personal ...

By Trip Gabriel Bob Filner, a progressive Democrat who served two decades in Congress and then successfully ran for mayor of San Diego, promising to shake up City Hall — but whose career ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Bob Filner, the indefatigable politician who served as a member of congress and then mayor of ...