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Robert Earl Filner (born September 4, 1942) is an American former politician who was the 35th mayor of San Diego from December 2012 through August 2013, when he resigned amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment. [3]
The 2013–2014 San Diego mayoral special election was a special election to elect the mayor of San Diego. The election was made necessary by the resignation of Bob Filner on August 30, 2013. [1] The winner stood to serve out the balance of Filner's term, which ended in 2016. [2]
The mayor is elected to a four-year term, with a limit of two consecutive terms. [24] The mayor is officially non-partisan by state law, although most mayoral candidates identify a party preference. If the office of the mayor becomes vacant with one year or less remaining in the term, the city council appoints a person to fill the vacancy.
As no candidate received a majority of primary votes to be declared elected outright, [1] the top two finishers, San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio and Congressman Bob Filner, advanced to the November general election. [2] Filner was elected mayor with a majority of the votes in the November election.
Upon the resignation of Mayor Bob Filner on August 30, 2013, [22] Gloria became the interim mayor of San Diego, with limited powers. [23] His new interim role led to San Diego becoming the second-largest city in the United States, after Houston, with an openly gay mayor. [24] [25] He served until March 3, 2014, when mayor-elect Kevin Faulconer ...
On March 3, 2014, Kevin Faulconer resigned from the City Council to assume the office of mayor of San Diego, having won the special election to replace Bob Filner. [4] This created a vacancy in District 2.
In September 2013, he declared his candidacy for mayor of San Diego. He was the officially endorsed Democratic candidate in the special election to replace Bob Filner. [7] In the primary election held November 19, 2013, he came in second with 25.59 percent of the vote.
Jules Michael Aguirre [1] (born 1949), more commonly known as Michael Jules Aguirre, is a politician who was the San Diego City Attorney from 2004 to 2008.. In 2013, he was a candidate for mayor in a special election following Mayor Bob Filner's resignation.