Posted on 11/03/2011 7:11:11 AM PDT by cizinec
Chris Wilson is Interviewed on Herman Cain
Best point made yet. He says he was there and saw it. He should say what he saw.
And you are right. This Wilson guy has no confidentiality agreement.
So why say you saw it if you aren’t going to be clear about what you saw?
My best guess is that it isn’t salacious enough. It is more juicy if people speculate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2801141/posts
Cain Accusers Lawyer Said Case Leaked to Politico by a Board Member of Natl Restaurant Assoc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801725/posts
A friend of the Cain campaign believes a National Restaurant Association (NRA) employee out of the Chicago office leaked the story to the Perry campaign via information and influence from Mayor Rahm Emanuels office.
Possible tie-ins between Chris Wilson (Wilson Research Strategies, WRS), The National Restaurant Association (NRA), Former NRA Chair Ed Tinsley, Rahm Emanual, etc.
Wiki:
(Chris) Wilson served as Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas when President George W. Bush was governor, working directly for Karl Rove, and following Karen Hughes when she left the Party to join the campaign.
Wilson served as Global Director of Research for Weber Shandwick from 1999 - 2001. He started his own firm, Wilson Research Strategies, in 1998.
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2002/02/25/daily7.html
Opinion researcher Wilson rings up 411
Washington Business Journal
Date: Monday, February 25, 2002, 4:26pm EST
Wilson Research Strategies said Monday that it acquired 411 Communications, another Washington area opinion research firm.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but Chris Wilson, WRSs president ...
(snip)
WRS has six principals and was relaunched as a subsidiary of McLean, Va.-based Qorvis Communications in August. About 30 to 40 percent of the companys work is political and its biggest clients include Pfizer, Saudi Arabia and the National Restaurant Association.
(snip)
City strikes deal to keep restaurant show
Financial package worth $2 million comes after group reschedules to avoid NATO, G-8 summits
July 27, 2011|By Kathy Bergen, Tribune reporter
The National Restaurant Association announced Tuesday it will keep its show in Chicago next year, but it will move the dates to avoid overlap with the NATO and G-8 summits.
The high-profile show will be held May 5-8, rather than May 19-22, at McCormick Place, where it has been a fixture since 1950.
The decision was made after Chicago came forward with a one-time financial package aimed at reducing some losses that could occur due to the schedule change. The association, the citys convention bureau and the mayors office declined to discuss the specifics of the deal.
The package is worth about $2 million and includes public and private funding sources, according to sources close to the deal. That total includes noncash items, such as marketing and attendance-building services that the bureau often provides to trade shows, sources said.
(snip)
Mary Pat Heftman, executive vice president of convention for the restaurant association, said Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the convention bureau worked to mitigate potential losses and pledged to help drive attendance on the new dates.
Emanuel helped to bring NATO and the leading industrial nations to Chicago using his influence as a former White House chief of staff, and he found himself scrambling to ease the resulting timing conflict.
Losing the restaurant show, even for one year, would have been a public relations nightmare for the city, which is racing to recover from a federal court ruling tossing out labor-rule changes aimed at reducing exhibitors costs.
The restaurant show is one of the citys largest, this year drawing 58,000 attendees who packed hotels and restaurants, and generated an estimated $93.3 million in spending. It typically is the big game in town during its run.
(snip)
http://disclosures.house.gov/lc/lcxmlrelease/2008/MM/700070312.xml
#72.
Contribution Type:
FECA
Contributor Name:
National Restaurant Association PAC
Honoree:
Edward R. Tinsley, III
Amount:
$200,000.00
Date:
3/11/2008
Payee:
Wilson Research Strategies
http://watchdog.net/lob/c/700070312
Lobbyist ID Mr. John Gay
http://www.nrn.com/article/nra-texas-gov-perry-push-ethanol-waiver
NRA, Texas Gov. Perry push for ethanol waiver
June 24, 2008
WASHINGTON National Restaurant Association officials and other food industry representatives concerned about ethanol-related food inflation joined Texas Gov. Rick Perry here Tuesday to call on the Environmental Protection Agency to approve his request for a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard, or RFS.
Perry, backed by the NRA and other members of the recently formed Coalition for Balanced Food and Fuel, told an audience at the National Press Club that a reduction of this years RFS mandate would ease skyrocketing corn prices that have hurt his states livestock and poultry industries. Perry in April petitioned the EPA to cut the mandate from 9 billion to 4.5 billion gallons of ethanol blended into the nations fuel supply.
John Gay, the NRAs senior vice president of government affairs and public policy ...
(snip)
wiki:
Dawn Sweeney is President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association[5]. The 2009-2010 Chairman of the Board is Michael Gibbons of Mainstreet Ventures.[6] Recent association chairs included Edward R. Tinsley of New Mexico, the franchisor of K-Bobs Steakhouse restaurant chain, who served from 2006-2007.[7]
TINSLEY, EDWARD ROY MR III
SANTA FE,NM 87506 TINSLEY HOSPITALITY GROUP L.L.C./RE 8/30/11 $2,500 Perry, Rick (R)
Wilson is using a classic smear tactic.
(1) I saw something, but I can’t give any specifics (just a generic charge)
(2) It was common knowledge, everyone knew about it (but he won’t name the people he’s talking about, and nobody is comming forward)
There’s nothing for Cain to dispute here, because Wilson hasn’t said anything specific enough to address.
Remember these facts:
(1) The national restaurant assoc. was a lobbying group, and consequently it had lots of social functions—meetings, dinners, social events, and party’s were part of their organizational functions, and employees attended all of those functions.
(2) The definition of sexual harassment was very different in the 1990’s than it is today. As hard as it is to believe today, standing too close to someone could be considered grounds for sexual harassment at the time. Things were THAT tense.
So what is it Cain did? Stand too close to someone, put his hand on someone’s shoulder, give someone (heaven forbid) a hug, or did he walk around with his pants unzipped and his junk hanging out?
All of these would had constituted sexual harassement at the time. The bar today for sexual harassment is so much higher, that you hear the accusation and you think “wow, he must have done something bad”, but put in the context of the time he may have done nothing more than stand to close to someone at a public function.
We don’t know, because Wilson won’t even hint at what the action is, and the reason is obvious. He wants to let the accusation hang in the air so people’s imaginations can run wild with it. THAT’s the smear tactic part of it.
The slime on Herman Cain is being flung mainly from the Rick Perry campaign. It only makes sense. Romney's support is still hovering around 25-30%, almost exactly where it was before the Perry bubble burst from self-inflicted wounds and Herman Cain has been the major beneficiary of that support.
Yeh, I have noticed that. The malicious charges don’t hold much heft, so now we switch to how Cain isn’t competent enough.
The folks engaging in this will soon find themselves in the same boat.
I doubt anyone else is squeaky clean. Even if they are, a rumor doesn’t have to be fact based, once it hits the media, they will make it look like it is.
Maybe he could have "handled it better". But I cannot blame him in hindsight for the decisions he has made on this. How do you respond to reports that you "made some women uncomfortable", but "we cannot release the details". Then you have CBS and ABC accidentally referring to "making women uncomfortable" as "sexual assault".
This is an assault all right-a full MSM blitzkrieg. It's difficult to say how one should react from such a sudden onslaught.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801741/posts
You can find out about who Chris Wilson is here
Cain is doing fine.
The problem is the whisper campaign against him without clear charges.
How do you respond to intangible charges?
The only facts we are sure of is that Cain was cleared by an investigation and that one of the women was given a severance package.
Your right that it is -right now-between Mitt and Newt. I sent Newt a few dollars the other day. Romney is smart and a good debater but you can’t trust him.He is like Obama in that he will sway with the wind so you can’t rely on him.
How about Jeb??? Its certainly not too late.
Bush vs Obama and their respective records(George’s+Jeb’s).
Love it!!!
The only way Cain had to "clear himself" from their slander attack is to violate a legal confidentiality agreement. So his only choice was to break the law thus opening himself to being sued in the midst of his campaign, or let himself be slandered.
Now because he did not choose to break the law to protect himself, he is now being accused by the GOP Establishment slanderbots of "botching the response"
How about this. Accusations have been made. Cain has refuted them. How about the accusers put up even 1 single shred of evidence to back up their accusations?
Keep up the good work.
Agree with your position.
Sorrybot boy but this stupidity on the part of Rove and the rest of the GOP Establishment may just of handed Cain the nomination.
If not, the GOP certainly will have a third Party challenger from the Right in 2012.
Take a look around the web. Outside the DC beltway clique, the Right is completely pissed about this slimy attack on Cain. They are not going to roll over and play dead if the Rovebot slime merchants get away with this hit job.
Rove got way with these tactics in 2000 against McCain because no one really liked McCain. 2012 will not be a repeat of 2000. These sort of scumbag political tactics are not going to be stood for by the Tea Party.
So you got two choices, beat Cain on the issues or get out of the way because this scumbag level political attack on Cain will be neither forgiven nor forgotten by the Tea Party.
Cain has had a year to figure out a way to get his story out first Have your wife do it or get better lawyers to figure a way. He was stupid to wait to get blasted.
He isn't POTUS material if he knew this was coming --for 10 days!--and couldn't do better than he did!
Take a look around outside your beltway media generated bubble world bot boy. Your ignorance on what is going on at the grassroots is total.
Hey genius. Ron Paul must be your fall-back. Figures.
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