This morning I heard an interview with Chris Wilson (this guy?). Someone is saying he works for Perry (where is this info to be found?).
Regardless, he says the issue is super bad and lots of folks saw him do it but aren't speaking for legal reasons. I suppose that *could* be the case if they saw it while they were functioning as consultants of the NRA or signed confidentiality agreements with the NRA for *this* issue. Unlikely, but possible.
Questions:
1. Does this guy work for Perry, Romney, Rahm, McDonalds . . .?
2. Does this guy have a politically partisan past? (I can't find it if he does).
3. ISTM that all of the accusers are discussing one incident, including this new 3rd accuser, who will not step forward and hasn't signed a confidentiality agreement. Am I missing something here?
4. Why is the Cain campaign swinging at anything that moves as the source of the info? ISTM that this Chris Wilson guy is the one who initiated the whole business.
I should have added that in the interview, the Chris Wilson guy says *he* saw and heard it.
Are you really going to fall for the premise that "it must be true if he's fighting it"? How did not fighting the smears work out for GWB?
This uncovers a problem in the Cain camp. They lack the experience to handle this nightmare in the best professional way. All I know is that Cain is the subject of a hideous witch hunt and he needs to stop that crap right now so he can get back on message. He is a good man who a lot of folks for various reasons would like to destroy. This is also an example of exactly what’s wrong with American politics! Sheeesh already.
Once again, name, rank, serial number and just the absolute facts that substantiate the accusations beyond any doubt. Otherwise, keep your pie hole shut!!!
To Answer some of your Questions:
Chris Wilson company does polling for Perry.
One of his offices is in Austin, Tex.
Chris Wilson has publically supported Perry.
Chris Wilson has worked directly with Karl Rove in the past.
No connect the dots.
Well it is pretty clear he didn’t do anything very major to anyone with all these folks standing around observing otherwise they would be accomplices. So did he tell an off-color joke? Maybe.
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you. Sheesh.
I'm calling B.S. on Wilson. What did Cain do, grab his crotch? I mean even if he made an off-color joke about someone's boobs during a cocktail party, who cares? Can you imagine what prior Presidents from Jackson to TR to Truman to JFK to Clinton said or did to women before they served in office? It is time for a backlash against the very concept of sexual harassment. This article goes a long way, but we need more. Conservative women must lead the way.
Why wash’t it sexual harassment when Elizabeth Warren ridiculed Scott Brown for his career choice of posing semi-nude for Cosmo? It would have been had the roles been reversed. Enough. If women want to be equal that stop the nonsense about being the “fairer sex”. You can have chivalry and women’s lib at the same time. Grow up, end sexual harassment rules now. Race stuff too.
“Four people with contemporaneous knowledge of the encounter said it had taken place in the context of a work outing during which there had been heavy drinking — a hallmark, they said, of outings with an organization that represents the hospitality industry. They spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid being publicly drawn into the dispute, and declined to provide details of the encounter, saying they did not want to violate the privacy of the woman.”http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/us/politics/herman-cain-accuser-got-a-years-salary-in-severance-pay.html
It is possible it could be both - Anderson and Wilson. Both had ties to Cain (Anderson worked on Cain’s Senate race in GA), both connected with Perry now. I’m sure we’ll know the truth soon.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2801141/posts
“Cain Accuser’s 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 Emanuel’s 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, WRS’s 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 company’s 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 city’s convention bureau and the mayor’s 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 city’s 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 year’s RFS mandate would ease skyrocketing corn prices that have hurt his state’s 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 nation’s fuel supply.
John Gay, the NRA’s 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-Bob’s 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.
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