Turns out, the Paris trip cost taxpayers $22,000 — not the $10,000 originally reported. Apparently most of this cost was the 2 man security detail sent with Filner.
Only they weren’t sent with the mayor. They missed the flight. So for hours after arriving in the City of Light, the Mayor and his (then) betrothed were unprotected. Guess he dodged a bullet (or two).
Sources: Mayor Bob Filner’s France trip cost taxpayers $22,000
Security detail missed flight
by Mitch Blacher
SAN DIEGO – Sources tell Team 10 Mayor Bob Filner’s trip to France last month cost taxpayers at least $22,000. They said the money paid for two city police officers working as the mayor’s security detail.
Sources also said the officers missed the mayor’s flight from San Diego to Paris. The officers were not with the mayor for the entire trip.
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