He should go. This is not a question about private conduct, but of misuse of public power.

Fresh allegations out Wednesday from two survivors of military sexual assault who sought Filner's aid while he was in Congress accuse him of using his power to try to take advantage of women who were at their most vulnerable. The president of the National Women's Veterans Association of America, which supports survivors of military sexual assault, says he made a play with seven or eight women who were part of her group while they were trying to get him to take their issue seriously.

"He went to dinners, asked women out to dinners, grabbed breasts, buttocks. The full gamut. Everything that is complete violation of what we stand for," Tara Jones told CNN. "He's a sexual predator. And he used this organization for his own personal agenda."

The latest allegations of inappropriate behavior come on top of accusations from 11 other women, bringing the total of on-the-record named accusers to 13 in incidents dating to 2009. That is some Bob Packwood territory. Filner's former fiancee has also accused him of verbally abusive behavior and blatant and recent sexting, and dumped him in the wake of the scandal.

"I brought this on through my own personal frailties, and the biggest monster right now is, you know, inside me, which we will deal with,'' Filner told Univision before entering treatment. "I'm clearly doing something wrong," he acknowledged earlier.

If you have not been following this story closely, here is what you need to know to get up to speed. Read the stories of the 13 women, as excerpted from reports over the past three weeks.

1. Irene McCormack Jackson, as reported by KPBS:

Reading in a clear and powerful voice from a prepared text, McCormack Jackson said the day she was named Filner's communications director -- a job for which she took a $50,000 per year pay cut -- was one of the proudest of her career. But the past six months proved to be the worst period of her working life, she said. (She earned $125,000 annually at the city.)

The mayor treated women working for him as either sexual objects or idiots, said McCormack Jackson, who did not take reporters' questions.

She described Filner's penchant for putting her into a headlock and pulling her about, while whispering sexually explicit comments in her ear. She said the mayor often told her he loved her, wanted to kiss her, told her he wanted to see her naked and that she should work without panties at City Hall; and that he wanted to "consummate their relationship."

"I saw him place his hands where they did not belong on numerous women,'' she said.

2. Laura Fink, as reported by KPBS:

Fink said her troubling encounter with Filner happened when she was staffing him at a fundraising dinner. The Democratic congressman was making amends to the LGBT community, she said, for his "yes" vote years earlier on the highly controversial Defense of Marriage Act.