September 1, 2013-

Mayor Bob Filner is no more.  HIs last day in office was on August 30th and his ability to inflict damage on the City of San Diego is now limited to whether or not other women come forward to complain about how they were treated by the mayor.  As the show began, Politico responded to a press release issued by the DeMaio for Congress campaign that says DeMaio would be making an announcement on Tuesday about whether or not he'll drop his bid for Congress and step-in and run for mayor.  Of course his camp and the San Diego GOP got upset when I "railed" against DeMaio and made fun of him missing the bathroom - the chairman of the San Diego Republican Party wrote to me that my being opposed to DeMaio was tiring. So is losing to Democrats up and down the length and width of California.  I'm actually sick of the California GOP and the San Diego GOP frankly, they're so pompous, but they continue to lose.  They expect people just to pretend that California and the San Diego region hasn't gone from being bright red to being purple - at best - if not blue.  They think if they run moderates that they'll do better and every moderate they run loses.  The same is true with DeMaio and his supporters don't like when he's compared to the Democrats in the race, but show me a difference between him and Scott Peters?  Real differences, not the silly little things as if Peters doesn't want to balance the federal budget - all of them will fight against BRACs and RIFs because they know it will cost federal jobs in the San Diego area so that's no difference and the list goes on.  I'll keep talking about DeMaio so long as he keeps putting out press releases.  I never asked for them, but his campaign insists on giving them.  Syria turned bizarre on Saturday as President Obama went to the Rose Garden to say that he doesn't have to go to Congress for permission to strike Syria over its use of chemical weapons, but he said they're going to go to Congress anyway.  Many take this as Obama suddenly realizing that there are separation of powers, but the reality is that Obama is alone - after Britain refused to back our use of force in Syria all Obama has left is France.  France will cheer us on, but all of the work will be left to the USA - as it always is.  The debate should be interesting and a failure in the Congress would be terrible for the country.  Putin and Obama will see each other this coming week at the G20 in St. Petersburg, Russia.  That should be a cold cold meeting.

August 25, 2013-

Democrat Mayor Bob Filner resigned on Friday after a month under fire for sexual harassment allegations and OTHER ISSUES, including spending tens of thousands of local tax money to fly his personal security team to Paris to speak to an organization that had nothing to do with San Diego. His resignation, effective August 30th was approved after what can only be described as bizarre. Pro-Filner forces seem to have arrived by space ship and garbage truck. Anti-Filner forces asked that the recall effort move forward and some asked what happened to the San Diego Police Department and if they were complicit in the mayor’s activities. The deal is done and Mayor Filner will depart and so far folks have begun filing to run in the special election: Nathan Fletcher (the Republican, the Independent, and the Democrat), but also the only Marine in the bunch, filed for office. But wouldn't it be nice to have a non-politician in the office? What is all the garbage with jazz hands during city council meetings (so people didn’t clap) and the ridiculous “it’s time to heal” garbage?  Nobody knows what will happen when Filner steps down, but Todd Gloria will be the acting mayor and says he has no interest in the job (who would) so that leaves the oxygen to be taken-up by Carl DeMaio who won't say if he's going to end his Congressional bid for the seat in Congress currently held by Rep. Scott Peters (D-52) or if he'll move over to the race for the mayor's office.  Then there is the lead up to war in Syria.  The President is acting as though a military strike could come at any time, but he's not pushing the button or pulling the trigger and, worse than that, he's telegraphing to our enemy what we are and are not going to do.  The whole thing is expected to be over a couple of days after it starts, but will that be enough to do anything?  What is our purpose on having a military strike?  Nobody is able to answer.  Should be an interesting week.

August 18, 2013-

KOGO's special coverage of the Bob Filner recall petition and process.  Petition gathering and a rally taking place at San Diego City Hall with coverage by KOGO's Mike Hancock and rally participants.  We heard from both sides in this scandal - some want Mayor Filner to go and others say that he should stay.  10News is reporting that about 80% of San Diego voters want Mayor Bob Filner to resign, but he is holding out for the best deal.  We hear from the rally, demonstrators, lawyers, non-lawyers, and from the scene.  The good news is that we've come a long way in making sure that people are treated with respect. Yuhas took some criticism for not being on board with the recall itself because everybody knew who Bob Filner was when they elected Filner as Mayor of San Diego - now they're mad that he was caught?  Is it right to recall somebody for being a horrible person?  The City Council is said to be looking at a deal and the Steve Yuhas prediction: City Council will cut a deal Filner and he'll leave with his head high and with limited liability - that's almost certain. One final thing: People called the program and the most recent victim was made fun of because she was not pretty enough to be hit on by Bob Filner.  That is horrible and just as bad as what Filner did.

August 11, 2013-

The devil is in the details about San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's rehab, but one thing we do know - it's over. The mayor is cured!  Speaking of him being cured - next Sunday (August 18 and the next time we're on the air - we'll come to you early at 2:00 p.m. to cover the big anti-Filner rally at City Hall - should be interesting to see how the cured mayor responds to vocal criticism).  Join us then.  Of course there is much more news - the first system-wide Amber Alert woke people up because the system sent multiple messages to people from San Diego to San Francisco about a teen that was taken after her brother and mother were killed by a friend of the family.  She was recovered and her abductor shot and killed by police. The Amber Alert had nothing to do with finding her and that is going to be cause to turn the thing off.  Egypt is erupting into turmoil as the Muslim Brotherhood savages continue their anti-Egyptian protest - they're burning churches and Obama is calling them protests as if they are peaceful - the protests against the Egyptian military are as much a protest as the demolition and assassination of the American ambassador in Benghazi was a protest - pure fiction and the president will be golfing on what is sure to be a deadly week.

August 4, 2013-

President Obama ordered the closure of U.S. embassies from Algeria to Bangladesh because of a threat – a specific one – that caused fear among the foreign service and military planners. The President and the Congress won’t tell us what the threat is, but this is unprecedented – the United States didn’t close our embassies after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York and the Pentagon (to be fair, we scaled-back on consular duties), but a closure? No. San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is hanging on (so is Anthony Weiner), but the Democratic ‘War on Women’ has brought out yet another claimant – this makes the exposure to the city in the high tens of millions of dollars. The San Diego City Council voted unanimously not to fund the defense or settlements that might come about after Filner comes out of his two week rehab program to change a lifetime of behavior. None of that will matter because his actions took place while he was acting in his official capacity as mayor of the city he leads and his defense of not having a city sexual harassment class falls on deaf ears given he spent 45 years in public office of one type or another and when he was a Congressman (a federal employee) he did have training.  The economy is not growing and some are calling Generation Y (and the millenials) the lost generation, but there’s hope. Nidal Hasan (a Major in the U.S. Army who sprayed fellow American soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas with gunfire for allah) goes to trial on Monday. It’s taken years for the event, that happened in 2009, to go to trial, but even with admissions from Hasan that he did the attack on Americans for allah and against the United States as a terror attack, troops looking to be compensated for their actions in combat are receiving nothing because the Obama Administration says the event was little more than workplace violence. And don't forget (much, much more at: http://www.kogo.com/pages/steveyuhas.html#ixzz2cB0hjN7V

July 28, 2013-

Disgraced San Diego Mayor Bob Filner came out on Friday for an unannounced press event that everybody thought would be his resignation announcement – it wasn’t. Mayor Filner has had seven decades of bad behavior – behavior where he treats women in ways that only somebody with an ongoing war on women could and his special announcement? Well, he’s going to take two weeks off, during the previously announced summer recess of the San Diego City Council, to get help for a lifetime of sexual abuse targeted toward women. Really? Two weeks is all it takes to change a lifetime of bad behavior? This guy is a laughing stock (it’s tough to decide who the bigger pervert is: Anthony Weiner who continued “sexting” long after he left Congress or the Bob Filner). One thing we do know: They’re both Democrats and they’re being asked to step aside by their party, but many are defending them saying what they did is private. What do you think about Mayor Filner’s two-week plan and the Weiner problem in NYC? President Obama is out talking about the economy – he has no new ideas and instead rolled out the phrase to avoid responsibility for anything happening in Washington: Phony scandal. He doesn’t say which of the scandals in Washington, D.C. (that he apparently forgets he leads one of three branches of) – is the one where the IRS targeted Americans for their political beliefs? What about Benghazi – four Americans died because their security requests were turned down at the State Department – surely he can’t say that is phony (after the phony excuse of an internet video nobody saw)? Is Fast & Furious a scandal – hundreds of Mexicans were killed with guns imported from the United States with hopes to somehow track them… without tracking them – and a border agent and Americans were killed with the same guns? How about snooping on reporters – is that a fake scandal or the real thing?  Traitor Update: It’s hard to keep up with all of the updates coming out about Army Major Nidal Hasan, Private Bradley Manning, and former Booz Allen Hamilton employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden, but we’ll try. And, much, much more on the Steve Yuhas page at: Read more: http://www.kogo.com/pages/steveyuhas.html#ixzz2cB07bKF9