Filthbag, I mean Filner, is bad even by ‘rat standards. It’s going to take a Duke Cunningham-like scandal to bring him down, unfortunately.
That district had been represented by a rodent slimebag in the ‘80s named Jim Bates. Duke Cunningham actually beat him in 1990. When redistricting occurred 2 years later, Cunningham had to decide whether to run in the more urban/Hispanic section or the suburban area, and he went with the latter because it would be easier for the GOP, and the former went to Filner. It’s possible Cunningham could’ve held the Filner seat for a few cycles before it would’ve fallen (like Dornan’s district was before it fell due to voter fraud).