Bob Filner Profile

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• Former Democratic member of Congress

• Former Member of the Progressive Caucus

• Active member of the American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause, the NAACP, and the Sierra Club

• Son of a Communist Party USA member

• Former mayor of San Diego

Bob Filner was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in September 1942 and grew up in New York City. His father, Joseph Filner, was a member of the Communist Party USA.

In 1961 Bob Filner spent two months in a Mississippi jail as a result of his activities as a civil-rights Freedom Rider. He earned a B.A. in chemistry in 1963 and a Ph.D. in history in 1973, both at Cornell University.[1]

Filner served on the San Diego city school board from 1979-83, and on the San Diego city council from 1987-92. In 1992 he was elected to represent the newly created 50th congressional district—stretching from south San Diego eastward nearly 300 miles to the Arizona border—which the Democrat-dominated state legislature had carefully gerrymandered to conjure a Democratic congressional seat out of one of the most Republican regions in California. The ethnic makeup of this district (which was renumbered as the 51st after the 2000 Census) is more than 53% Hispanic, more than 9% black, 12% Asian, and 21% white. Re-elected to this seat multiple times thereafter, Filner served in Congress until 2012.

[Dori]

There sure are a lot of communist ties to Democrats.

ACLU founder Roger Baldwin's candid vision:

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Allen West calls the members of the "Progressive Caucus" communists.

•Common Cause: This organization aims to bring about campaign-finance reform, pursue media reform resembling the Fairness Doctrine, and cut military budgets in favor of increased social-welfare and environmental spending.