[TheWriterTX]

Dear Scout:

Only one woman received any kind of settlement. The other got nothing, and the third anonymous accuser never formally lodged any complaint.

[Scoutmaster]

Only one woman received any kind of settlement.

Let's mark this for future reference, because this thing is a moving target. The rag, Politico, is now stating that two women received payments. The New York Times confirmed the $35K payment on Tuesday. Politico says that the $45K payment is to the woman that Cain refers to when he says the NRA settled with a woman.

I don't know the facts. None of us does. We have some serious filters between us as the facts.

Information is coming from one more sources, including:

• Current executives or employees of the NRA with access to the information;
• Former executives or employees of the NRA with access to the information;
• The women involved;
• Attorneys for the women involved, or current or former employees or other attorneys in those firms who had access to the information; and
• Disgruntled former members of Cain's campaign who were briefed on the one incident, as Cain had briefed a staffer on in 2004 Senate bid (and remember that Cain lost high-ranking members of his Iowa staff, and I have no idea to which candidate they went).

Next, information is being given to us in drips, partly because it's coming that way (as the "I though about accusing him" anonymous sources surface), and partly because Politico appears to be playing games.

But before you state as a fact that only one woman received a settlement? I'd wait a few days.