Former San Diego City Councilman John Hartley, who served from 1989 to 1993 and is strangely running again this year, took a break from the campaign trail yesterday. He did so by peeing in a cup and masturbating like a clown, in public, in the middle of the afternoon. There were two witnesses to the event, and they have now seen a 65-year-old politician masturbating on a street. [San Diego Union-Tribune]