Four more women came forward today to publicly accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment. They include “a retired Navy rear admiral, a dean at San Diego State University and the head of the city’s Ports Tenants Association.”

It now seems conceivable that Filner has at one time or another harassed most of the women in public life in the city of San Diego.

Last night I flagged that four more women had come forward with harassment allegations against Bob Filner ranging from borderline sexual assault to gropings to unwanted sexual advances. The four appeared together last night on the local PBS in San Diego to discuss their experiences. Here’s the segment.

We’re launching a redesign version of the mobile version of TPM. More details after the jump. Read More

In order to limit the votes of their political opponents, North Carolina Republicans – freed up from the restrictions of the Voting Rights Act are pushing through a raft of new voting restrictions including Voter ID, dramatically curtailed early voting, an end to same day registration. A popular high school program designed to register high school students in time for their 18th birthdays is also getting the axe.

Colbert takes his turn roasting Steve King and his DREAMers as drug mules comments. Watch.

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.

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

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.

That university police officer who became an iconic figure when he pepper-sprayed those student Occupy protestors wants compensation for ‘psychiatric injury’ caused by the incident.

So there you have it. Mayor Bob Filner will go for two weeks of intensive rehab. He won’t resign.

Speaking candidly, you can get counseling or ‘rehab’ for almost anything. And I don’t doubt counseling could help someone with this kind of history if they genuinely wanted to change their behavior. But I’m curious, how do you go about finding a facility that will agree to a quickie two-week fix up for this sort of thing?