George Mitrovich
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The Vice President in 2016
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., while United States Senator from Delaware, was a guest of The City Club of San Diego 15-times. Few public speakers are better; none more personable. The Vice President is Catholic, but on one of his visits he asked if he could join our family in worship at First United […]
“Fumble?” Did You Say, “Fumble,” Mr. President?
The roll out of President Obama’s health care act was a major screw-up and when the president described it at a press conference as a “fumble,” he insulted our intelligence. There are people who hate Barack Obama; who hate his black skin; who hate he is president – and have hated him from the day […]
November Notes: Bob Filner & Baseball
When the news hit that former mayor Bob Filner had pleaded guilty to a series of false imprisonment and battery charges involving three women, it was a stunner. Of course the plea led the U-T San Diego, but also the Los Angeles Times, and earned a double byline story in The New York Times. When […]
Politics Ain’t Beanbag
Eight days after Bob Filner resigned in disgrace, acting mayor Todd Gloria and city councilman Kevin Faulconer spoke to a standing room only audience of The City Club of San Diego at La Jolla Country Day School. The purpose of the gathering was to look beyond Filner’s 246-ruinous days in office and to our city’s […]
Of Politics & Poetry
In writing against an early deadline and lacking the gift of prophecy I do not know whether Bob Filner is still mayor, but if he is every day he remains in office compounds the city’s untenable situation. If he’s gone than God bless him for going and finally doing the right thing, but if not […]
In The Matter of Mayor Filner
I have called for Mayor Filner’s resignation, a difficult decision given our shared history, but in the end, a necessary one. I made my decision on the evening of July 16, and the following afternoon, after struggling within over language, issued the following statement (which was posted on the Sentinel’s Web site): “It is with […]
In the Matter of Mayor Filner
A statement by George Mitrovich 17 July 2013 It is with deep regret that I ask Bob Filner to step aside as mayor of San Diego. In calling for his resignation I am torn philosophically, because he and I share similar views on issues of social justice, too long denied to too many, but we […]
Musings: San Diego & Syria
Personal Note: The two issues that follow are not connected, for one is parochial and the other paramount, but in the mercurial nature of my mind these musings arose when I sat down to compose July’s column for the Sentinel: The Contretemps between Mayor Bob Filner and City Attorney Jan Goldsmith was wholly predictable. Why […]
Is That All There Is?
Jim Wallis, America’s leading prophetic voice on social justice, came to The City Club of San Diego recently to speak about his new book, “On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good.” In his speech, Dr. Wallis said: “At the height of America’s near economic collapse during George […]
Moral Outrage & Herblock
There’s never an absence of things to write about and I have never experienced “writer’s block,” despite prayers by others to that end, but sometimes real life interrupts and one must focus on matters other than single subject columns. So, rather than writing at length about a particular issue this month, I will reflect on […]
