Story highlights A former councilwoman said she'd heard complaints from two women 
 
 The women alleged they'd been sexually harassed by the mayor, the councilwoman said 
 
 No formal complaint has been filed 
 
 The mayor says he doesn't believe he's guilty and will not step down 
 
 San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, dogged by allegations of sexual harassment, said Monday that he will not step down from his post. 
 
 "As your elected mayor, I fully expect to be accountable to the citizens of San Diego for all of my actions," he said in a statement. "But as a citizen of this country, I also expect -- and am entitled to -- due process, and the opportunity to respond in a fair and impartial venue to specific allegations. I do not believe I am guilty of sexual harassment, and I believe a full presentation of the facts will vindicate me." 
 
 His statement came hours before a former city councilwoman and two attorneys held a news conference detailing allegations against the mayor. 
 
 Filner admits he needs 'help' amid sexual harassment allegations 
 
 Former councilwoman Donna Frye -- a Democrat, like Filner -- recently worked in the mayor's office. She said two women had described to her how they had allegedly been sexually harassed by the mayor. 
 
 Lawyers who appeared with Frye at the news conference said no formal complaint has been filed. One of the attorneys, Marco Gonzalez, who represents one of the unidentified accusers, said he intends to file a sexual harassment claim with the city and may also file civil lawsuits against San Diego. 
 
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 A spokesman for the city attorney confirmed there is no formal complaint. "There has not been a sexual harassment complaint or complaints involving Mayor Filner filed with the City Attorney's Office," Interim Communications Director Michael Giorgino said in a statement to CNN. 
 
 Has the road to political redemption gotten shorter? 
 
 Last Thursday, the mayor issued a statement saying that he had "diminished the office" to which he was elected. 
 
 "The charges made at today's news conference are serious," he said in last week's statement, issued after Frye sent him a letter asking for him to step down. "When a friend like Donna Frye is compelled to call for my resignation, I'm clearly doing something wrong. I have reached into my heart and soul and realized I must and will change my behavior. 
 
 "As someone who has spent a lifetime fighting for equality for all people, I am embarrassed to admit that I have failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me, and that at times I have intimidated them." 
 
 "It's a good thing that behavior that would have been tolerated in the past is being called out in this generation for what it is: inappropriate and wrong." ||||| SAN DIEGO — Turning up the pressure on Mayor Bob Filner to resign, three former supporters Monday released details of his alleged sexual harassment of women, including the forcible kissing of two constituents and grabbing the buttocks and breast of a staff member. 
 
 In a City Hall elevator, Filner told a female staffer that women employees would do better "if they worked without their panties on," attorney Marco Gonzalez said at a news conference outside City Hall. 
 
 Filner's behavior toward women is so egregious that women who work for him call him a "dirty old man" and coined the phrases "the Filner headlock" and "the Filner dance" to describe how he isolates women and then makes unwanted advances, Gonzalez said. 
 
 The accusations came two hours after the 70-year-old Democrat issued a statement saying he would not resign and that a fair investigation would find him innocent of sexual harassment. 
 
 "As your elected mayor, I fully expect to be accountable to the citizens of San Diego for all of my actions," Filner said in his statement. "But as a citizen of this country, I also expect — and am entitled to — due process, and the opportunity to respond in a fair and impartial venue to specific allegations." 
 
 Later Monday, Filner told San Diego television station KUSI that his behavior has been misinterpreted. "I'm a hugger of both men and women," he said. He said he has apologized to his staff. 
 
 Although Filner last week admitted to treating women on his staff poorly, he stopped short of admitting to sexual harassment. He also promised to seek professional help, take a sexual harassment class and apologize to women he may have offended. 
 
 Filner said he has hired a retired county official, Walt Ekard, as interim chief operating officer to make sure the workings of government are not hurt by the controversy. Ekard will take over many of the powers that Filner wielded: approving city contracts, giving orders to employees, selecting top management officials. 
 
 On Monday, Filner's ex-fiancee, Bronwyn Ingram, told local public radio station KPBS that Filner should resign and that she had caught him making dates with other women and sending them sexually explicit emails. She added, however, that she does not know whether allegations that he harassed his staff are true. 
 
 At the news conference held by Gonzalez, attorney Cory Briggs and former Councilwoman Donna Frye, several Filner supporters carried signs reading "Due Process for Mayor Filner." 
 
 But in impassioned, even angry tones, Frye and the two attorneys rejected the idea that Filner is being denied due process. 
 
 Gonzalez said a sexual harassment claim will be filed with city officials. Lawsuits are also a possibility, he said. "Bob Filner is tragically unsafe for any woman to approach," Frye said. 
 
 Frye and the lawyers, all longtime Filner supporters, declined to release the names of women making allegations against him or disclose how many women they have interviewed about the mayor. 
 
 Briggs said they are trying to "balance the public's right to know and the women's right to privacy." 
 
 Gonzalez said that once a claim is filed, investigators would talk to other mayoral staff members and the police officers assigned to the mayor's security detail. They will find that Filner has a pattern of pushing himself on women, starting with leering comments and then escalating to forcible kissing and groping, Gonzalez said. 
 
 Frye said that Filner makes sure he is alone with a woman, then asks whether she is married and then hands out compliments. With one constituent, he ended up forcibly kissing her, Frye said. 
 
 He did the same with another constituent and then, even after she rebuffed his advances, he grabbed one of her breasts, Frye said. 
 
 "This mayor cannot control himself," Gonzalez said. "He does not deserve to be the mayor of this city any longer." 
 
 Last week, after Filner released a contrite video and admitted "I need help," Frye, Gonzalez and Briggs rejected his plea as inadequate. 
 
 To allow Filner to remain in office would only "enable" him to continue abusing women, said Frye, who worked briefly for Filner. 
 
 As supporters, Frye and Gonzalez said they talked to Filner before going public with last week's demand. They realized he would not change, they said. 
 
 Only Filner's resignation will "help stop this horrible, horrible civic nightmare," Frye said. 
 
 Several members of the City Council — Democrats and Republicans — have called for Filner to resign, as have a list of other officeholders. On Monday, Reps. Susan Davis and Scott Peters, both San Diego Democrats, called for him to step down. 
 
 "His behavior, if not illegal, is reprehensible," Davis said. 
 
 tony.perry@latimes.com
– If your female employees have named a headlock after you, odds are, you're a pretty bad boss. San Diego Mayor Bob Filner allegedly falls into that category, we learned yesterday, as attorney Marco Gonzalez finally detailed some of the sexual harassment allegations that he and other ex-Filner supporters have been hinting at. Female staffers call him a "dirty old man," and came up with the phrases "the Filner dance" and, yes, "the Filner headlock" to describe interactions with him—which allegedly include Filner grabbing the breast and butt of one staffer, the LA Times reports. Filner once told a female staffer that women in the office would do better "if they worked without their panties on," Gonzalez said. Nor did Filner confine his abuses to staffers, added Gonzalez; he allegedly forcibly kissed two constituents. The revelations came after Filner issued a statement proclaiming his innocence. "I believe a full presentation of the facts will vindicate me," he said according to CNN. Which is pretty odd given that he'd previously apologized and said he needed help. Later yesterday, he explained his behavior by saying, "I'm a hugger of both men and women."