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Robert (Bob) Filner

Robert (Bob) Filner is a socialist leaning Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 51st district of California, which encompasses the San Diego area.

Born in Pittsburgh on September 4, 1942, and raised in New York City, Bob Filner moved to the San Diego area in 1970. He and his wife, Jane Merrill, have two adult children.^[1]

Bob Filner is the son of Joseph Filner, formerly a senior official of the Pennsylvania Communist Party USA.

Education/academia

Filner holds a science degree and one of only 18 members in the House holding a Ph.D.  

He spent twenty years tenured as a Professor of History at San Diego State University, ..

Civil Rights activism

In 1961, Bob Filner spent several months in a southern jail as a "Freedom Rider" in the Civil Rights movement.

Five "Freedom Riders" were arrested in Jackson. Four of the five were college students and one Elizabeth Hirschfield, was a laboratory technician at the Atomic energy commission, in Ithaca New York.

One of the four students Bob Filner was an 18 year old engineering student at Cornell, where he was the founder of the Cornell Liberal Union. Filner later taught at the Tuskegee Institute and participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March.^[2]

Father's legacy

After Bob Filner became involved in politics, one of the people who campaigned for him was Andrew Young, then mayor of Atlanta, Ga. Young had been mentored by Martin Luther King, and he remembered, King's financial backer Joseph Filner well. At one point, he told a campaign rally that he supported Bob Filner's candidacy not only because of their shared Democratic viewpoints, but also, quite simply, "because of his daddy."^[3]

Sponsored Communist Party "Jobs Bill"

H.R. 950, the Job Creation and Infrastructure Restoration Act of 1997 was introduced in the 105th Congress on March 5, 1997 by Congressman Matthew Martinez of California. It had 33 original co-sponsors, including Bob Filner. The primary purpose of this emergency federal jobs legislation was to provide much needed jobs at union wages to crisis ridden cities by putting the unemployed to work rebuilding our nation's infrastructure (schools, housing, hospitals, libraries, public transportation, highways, parks, environmental improvements, etc. $250 billion is authorized for emergency public works jobs over a five year period.  

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The leaders of the Los Angeles Labor Coalition for Public Works Jobs and its only affiliate New York Coalition for Public Works Jobs, were all known supporters or members of the Communist Party USA. .

In February 2002 a delegation^[7]of California Democratic Party Congressmen and women including Sam Farr, Diane Watson, Bob Filner and Mike Thompson, together with singer Carole King and representatives of California's rice and wine industries visited Havana as part of the latest effort to change U.S. policy toward Cuba.  

Carole King serenaded Fidel Castro with "You've Got a Friend" --- ..  

They said their dinner with Castro at the Palace of the Revolution stretched from 9 p.m. Sunday until about 4:30 a.m. Monday. During the meal, King also performed a new song, "Love Makes the World."