Hearing that Bob Filner will make a statement today at 12 pacific time.

The local ABC affiliate is reporting that Filner is “considering taking time off for therapy.”

This comes after four more women came forward yesterday evening (for a total of 7) accusing him of a range of behavior from unwanted advances to borderline assault.

I was reading through David Corn’s great piece on ‘Groundswell’ which is, depending on your point of view, a working group of conservative activists and journalists working together to coordinate storylines and plan the war against RINOs and progressives or a hapless group of doofuses planning regular meetings to vent about being crapped on by more prominent Republicans. My sense is that it’s sort of a hybrid of the two. Read More

I want to announce a couple new hires we’ve just made to bolster our DC reporting staff.

We’ve hired Dylan Scott as a new staffer reporter working out of the DC office. Dylan joins us from Governing magazine. We’ve also hired Daniel Strauss who will also be signing on as a staff reporter working out of the DC office. Daniel is joining us from The Hill.

Look for their bylines soon and keep sending us (and soon them) those news tips to the tip email at the upper right.