Bryan haz a sad:

San Diego will replace one mayor who engages in sexually aberrant behavior with another. http://t.co/2sqN4WpA7R

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) August 24, 2013

According to the City Charter rules, City Council President Todd Gloria will become acting mayor when Filner, the city’s first Democratic mayor in 20 years, leaves office Friday. An election will be held within 90 days.

Including Gloria, at least four of the potential candidates lining up to replace Filner are gay, including one Republican. It’s another significant milestone in the ascending political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community when the nation’s eighth-largest city - and one with a well-earned conservative reputation - has a gay chief executive.

The reaction to these milestones in San Diego, where former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson was once mayor: meh. It’s not even the first time it’s happened in San Diego. The city briefly had an interim mayor who was gay in 2005 after then-Mayor Dick Murphy resigned in the middle of a financial crisis.