San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s (D) former top spokeswoman “sued him and the city for sexual harassment Monday, alleging he repeatedly made unwanted sexual advances toward her and put her in a headlock on several occasions so she couldn’t get away,” the San Diego Union Tribune reports.

Irene McCormack Jackson accused the mayor of making several sexually suggestive comments to her and telling her he loved her and wanted to get married. The comments included: “I would do a better job if you kissed me,” “When are you going to get naked?” and “Wouldn’t it be great if you took off your panties and worked without them on?”

“Under Michigan’s law for cities teetering on the edge of collapse, which provides broad powers to emergency managers,” Detroit Mayor Dave Bing “finds himself in a rare and somewhat perplexing position — still the mayor, but with no say on his city’s biggest choices,” the New York Times reports.

The Whitehorse City Council put out a compelling ad to get you to watch meetings on cable access television.

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A “deeply divided” San Diego County Democratic Party “decided not to join the mounting calls for Mayor Bob Filner’s resignation over sexual harassment accusations as his supporters began gearing up a campaign to keep him in office,” the San Diego Union Tribune reports.

“The party’s central committee met for nearly three hours behind the closed doors… to discuss what position it should take on the embattled mayor. But the committee was deadlocked, voting 24-24.”

Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy, as the state-appointed emergency manager filed for Chapter 9 protection, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The final decision rested with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R): “This was a difficult and painful decision but I believe there are no other viable options. This is a situation that’s been 60 years in the making in terms of the decline of Detroit. From a financial point of view, let me be blunt, Detroit is broke.”

Wonk Wire: Detroit goes bankrupt.

The former fiancee of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) “says she ended her relationship with him because he became increasingly abusive toward her and began sending sexually explicit text messages to other women in her presence,” KPBS reports.

Bronwyn Ingram said she witnessed what she called a “severe deterioration in Bob’s ability to engage with anyone in a civil manner, myself included.”

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (D) “has inked a deal to author a book chronicling his life, career, and long reign in City Hall’s corner office,” the Boston Globe reports.

Said Menino: “It’s a story of my 20 years as mayor, the things we’ve dealt with, and the changes we’ve seen.”

“The book will be co-written by Jack Beatty, an author and political analyst for public radio… He is the author of The Rascal King, published in 2000, which is considered the definitive account of former Boston mayor and Massachusetts governor James Michael Curley.”

“In a bombshell announcement, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop said today that former Gov. Jim McGreevey (D) will take the helm of a city commission dedicated to job creation and training,” the Jersey Journal reports.

“McGreevey, who served for two years as governor before resigning in disgrace in 2004, will also create and implement a re-integration program for ex-offenders being released from state prison and county jails.”

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) admitted to allegations from political allies that he has sexually harassed numerous women, the San Diego Union Tribune reports.

Said Filner: “I begin today by apologizing to you. I have diminished the office to which you elected me. The charges made at today’s news conference are serious. When a friend like Donna Frye is compelled to call for my resignation, I’m clearly doing something wrong. I have reached into my heart and soul and realized I must and will change my behavior.”

“As someone who has spent a lifetime fighting for equality for all people, I am embarrassed to admit that I have failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me, and that at times I have intimidated them.”

At least three staunch supporters of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) have asked him to resign over allegations of sexual harassment, KPBS reports.

The three “each hand-delivered letters to Filner requesting his immediate resignation” with one saying she has “received credible evidence of more than one woman being sexually harassed by you.”

BuzzFeed: “Earlier this month on June 10th the New York Times inadvertently briefly posted an article on the lives of the women involved in Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal… It was quickly deleted before being replaced with a production note:”

“But while the story was deleted from the Times website, large portions of it remained cached by the search engine Google. By looking at search result listings in a series of more than a hundred searches in Google News, it was possible to reconstruct what appears to be the bulk of the article — 1,342 words.”

Toledo mayoral candidate Anita Lopez (D) requires staffers to fill out a form after questioning reporters about interview requests in order to be “as prepared as possible when the media comes looking for answers,” the Toledo Blade reports.

“Among the information Ms. Lopez wants in advance is a list of the reporter’s questions; if anyone already has been interviewed; who else will be interviewed; what the other sources said to the reporter; if she can use visuals, and if the reporter is knowledgeable.”

As WNWO-TV found, the result isn’t pretty when she’s not scripted.

However, Brad Phillips says the criticism is a “cheap shot.”

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“The emergency manager who was sent to reverse the fortunes of this financially troubled city asked some of its creditors on Friday to accept pennies on the dollar as he laid out his plan for tackling Detroit’s staggering debt, kick-starting negotiations that could determine whether the city is headed to bankruptcy court,” the New York Times reports.

“The proposal includes an offer that amounts to less than 10 cents on the dollar on some of the city’s unfinanced debt obligations like unsecured bonds and a portion of unfunded pension liabilities, which together total more than $11 billion.”

“I guarantee my name will be on the ballot, I will be registering the
first day I can. I can’t wait to get on the campaign trail.”

— Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, quoted by the Toronto Star, dismissing accusations he’s on video smoking crack cocaine.

The exodus of staff members from the office of scandal-embroiled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continues, the Toronto Star reports.

With two staffers escorted out by security today, it brings to five the number of staff who have walked out or been fired from Ford’s office in the last week.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford “told senior aides not to worry about a video appearing to show him smoking crack cocaine because he knew where it was,” the Toronto Star reports.

“Ford then blurted out the address of two 17th-floor units — 1701 and 1703 — at a Dixon Rd. apartment complex, to the shock of staffers at a city hall meeting almost two weeks ago.”

Meanwhile, the Toronto Globe and Mail reports one of the men seen in the video was killed and an arrest made.

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) was highly critical of a proposal by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) for mass arrests of 18,000 Gangster Disciples, telling the Chicago Sun-Times that Kirk’s approach is “headline grabbing” and an “upper-middle-class, elitist white boy solution to a problem he knows nothing about.”

“One of Kirk’s top priorities is targeting gangs; he has been meeting with law enforcement officials to devise a plan to execute the mass arrests.”

“Sexting king Weiner trolls for interns”

— New York Post