Last we heard from San Diego Mayor Bob Filner he had prompted no fewer than seven women to come forward to allege various forms of harassment ranging from unwanted advances to borderline assault. At the end of last week, Filner took off for a quickie two-week psychological fix up at an undisclosed rehab facility to help him stop harassing women. But now he’s asking the City of San Diego to pick up his legal expenses for the sexual harassment filed by Irene McCormack, his former Communications Director. Read More

Tony Bennett is currently the Florida Education Commissioner. Before that, however, he had the same job in Indiana. He developed a no nonsense reputation supporting charter schools and vouchers and pledging to hold failing or substandard schools accountable. But when the Charter School run a Republican mega-donor, Christel DeHaan, came up with an embarasing grade of a C on Bennett’s A-F system, he and his scrambled to find a way to make that C turn into an A. Here’s the story.