SAN DIEGO -- This tourist Mecca has long been loved for the gleaming beaches along its 70-mile coastline where the sea caresses the sand. Now it’s becoming known as the city where its Mayor allegedly gave unwanted caresses, butt pats and playful chokeholds to more than a dozen women.Every day the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper boasts: “The World’s Greatest Country and America’s Finest City.” These days San Diego is becoming known as America’s city with a mayor who refuses to resign even though he’s caught up in one of the country’s worst sex scandals.San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s latest refusal to resign was coated with political gobbledygook: “Now is not the time to go backwards - back to the time middle-class jobs and neighborhood infrastructure were sacrificed to downtown special interests,” he said in a written statement required by law to the committee trying to recall him.