Cain Blames Perry Camp for Sexual Harassment Leak

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Was the recent attack on Herman Cain’s presidential campaign a professional hit job? Absolutely, says Herman Cain. And he says he knows just where to look for the guy who did it: At 815 Slaters Lane in Alexandria, Virginia, a low-slung former warehouse in the shadow of a coal plant.

There, beside rusting rail lines, is the home of OnMessage Inc., a Republican-leaning consulting firm recently hired to bolster Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign.

One of the firm’s partners, Curt Anderson, worked on Cain’s losing 2004 U.S. Senate campaign. Cain thinks he’s the hired political gun who leaked details to Politico, a Washington trade publication, of alleged “sexually suggestive behavior” Cain is said to have exhibited towards two women while he ran the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. That story set off a media frenzy which has quickly put Cain’s campaign on the defense.

In the summer of 2003, Cain recalls briefing Anderson—his general campaign consultant at the time—that sexual harassment claims were brought against him while he was chairman of the National Restaurant Association from 1996 to 1999.

“I told my wife about this in 1999 and I’ve got nothing to hide,” Cain told me Wednesday. “When I sat down with my general campaign consultant Curt Anderson in a private room in our campaign offices in 2003 we discussed opposition research on me. It was a typical campaign conversation. I told him that there was only one case, one set of charges, one woman while I was at the National Restaurant Association. Those charges were baseless, but I thought he needed to know about them. I don’t recall anyone else being in the room when I told him.”
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardminiter/2011/11/02/herman-cain-sexual-harassment-leak/
 
Here's an update:

Day four of the Herman Cain sexual harassment story is all about the blame game. Team Cain blames Rick Perry for making the press aware of the accusations of inappropriate behavior Cain admits came his way when he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s.

Team Perry, meanwhile, says it’s the Mitt Romney campaign who sent the story to Politico. The Perry camp denies strenuously that they had anything to do with the story which is, at its heart, about accusations Cain has admitted are real — though he says he never harassed anybody. Romney’s campaign also denied they’re the source of the story to TPM and other outlets Wednesday.

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“Perry Campaign Used Politico to Attack Cain With Anonymous Sexual Harassment Charges,” reads a press release sent out last night by the Cain team. (Of course, Cain’s campaign has admitted the Politico story wasn’t anonymous, but that’s not really important to constructing the Perry-as-leaker narrative.)

Meanwhile, the man Cain himself says is responsible for the story is totally denying Cain’s version of things. Consultant Curt Anderson advised Cain’s 2004 Senate campaign and now works for a firm that works with Perry. Cain said he told Anderson about the sexual harassment allegations during the course a meeting back in 2003, but Anderson categorically denied that this morning on CNN:

“It’s hard to leak something you don’t know anything about,” he said. Asked directly about the conversation Cain claimed they had eight years ago, Anderson said: “I don’t have any knowledge of any of this and, you know, it’s just not true.”
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Then on Fox today, Anderson went a step farther.

“All this stuff about who leaked whatever, any reporter in the free world is free to say anything to anybody that I ever said to them about can Herman Cain,” he said. “I give them carte blanche to do that because I have absolutely nothing to hide.”
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This is hilarious. Cain blames the Perry camp. The Perry camp blames the Romney camp. The Romney camp denies it did it. Then the Perry consultant calls Herman Cain a liar and challenged any reporter to come forward with proof that he was the leaker.

Hilarious.


http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...s-reporters-to-prove-hes-behind-the-story.php
 
Dixie says that these allegations about Cain are making the Democrats look like hypocrates?
 
In recent days sources—including associates of the woman and people familiar with operations of the restaurant association—have offered new details of the incident.

The woman in question, roughly 30 years old at the time and working in the National Restaurant Association’s government affairs division, told two people directly at the time that Cain made a sexual overture to her at one of the group’s events, according to the sources familiar with the incident.

She was livid and lodged a verbal complaint with an NRA board member that same night, these sources said.

The woman told one of the sources Cain made a suggestion that she felt was overtly sexual in nature and that “she perceived that her job was at risk if she didn’t do it.”

“She is a pretty confident individual, and she was pretty upset,” the source, an acquaintance of the woman, said of her demeanor after the encounter with Cain. “Not crying, but angry.”

She described it as an “unwanted sexual advance” to the other source. The woman took the matter immediately and directly to the board member because “she wanted this fixed,” the source said.

POLITICO has learned the accusation was also later brought to the attention of another board member as well as the restaurant association’s general counsel Peter Kilgore, both of whom are said to have looked into the matter.

The woman, who now works in New Jersey, left the NRA in May 1998, shortly after the incident — under an agreement that paid her one year’s salary…


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67581.html#ixzz1cgYjte57
 
I had a crazy week at work so I didn't get to read much here. Did the idiots who claimed that this was "the liberals" ever admit they were wrong? Apologize?

LOL

Just kidding! I don't have to read anything to know they didn't!
 
Cornholio said:
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This is hilarious. Cain blames the Perry camp. The Perry camp blames the Romney camp. The Romney camp denies it did it. Then the Perry consultant calls Herman Cain a liar and challenged any reporter to come forward with proof that he was the leaker.

Hilarious.


http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...s-reporters-to-prove-hes-behind-the-story.php
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I hear he's "backtracking" now... His spokesperson is now saying they're waiting for all the facts to come in ( after jumping the gun, blaming everyone from the left, to the right, to the media). A PR nightmare, that speaks volumes as to why he shouldn't be president. LOL.
 
Cain identified the likely connection of the smear. The liberal media took it and ran with it. As indicated by the recent polling in South Carolina, likely voters see the obvious.

The first Rasmussen Reports poll of South Carolina’s Likely Republican Primary Voters shows Cain with 33% support, Romney at 23% and Gingrich at 15%. Texas Governor Rick Perry earns nine percent (9%)...
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http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ection_2012_south_carolina_republican_primary

That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. :D
 
DamnYankee said:
Do you think its sexual harassment to comment on a woman's height? :D
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Really? Where is the proof of that being what was said? I'd rather hear the woman in question, as to her side of the story.

When you're innocent of accusations , you don't settle. You don't pay.
 
poet said:
Really? Where is the proof of that being what was said? I'd rather hear the woman in question, as to her side of the story.

When you're innocent of accusations , you don't settle. You don't pay.
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That last sentence is not based in the reality of a litigious society. Often companies do a cost analysis, and if the figures show taht payoff is less than it would cost to bring it to court and pay lawyers, etc. will simply pay the claimant to get it over with and save cash.
 
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