San Diego Dethrones Itself As "America's Finest City": "We Were Taking Too Many Hits"…

Associated Press ELLIOT SPAGAT December 4, 2005 at 07:54 PM
AP/Denis Poroy

SAN DIEGO - America's Finest City? Not any more. One of its congressmen admitted taking $2.4 million in bribes, the FBI has investigated City Hall, the mayor resigned, a $1.37 billion pension shortfall damaged the city's credit rating and fueled talk of bankruptcy, and two councilmen were convicted of taking bribes from a strip club owner.

Faced with all that ill repute, the city has quietly dethroned itself and dropped the self-proclaimed title "America's Finest City" from its official Web site.

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