If Mayor Bob Filner can weather the storm over the next several days, insiders increasingly believe that a resignation would be over the horizon, or not at all. At the end of the day it’s this simple: Filner views himself as a civil rights hero. He’s not going to just duck out the back door and have this scandal define him. He’ll fight it. It’s his nature. And maybe more to the point, SHORT OF A RECALL NO ONE CAN MAKE FILNER LEAVE OFFICE.
What is likely to occur today, from labor sources, is that Filner will announce he is going to rehab. Hell of a move…