Posted on 11/02/2011 2:37:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Herman Cain accused a former consultant to his unsuccessful 2004 Senate campaign, Curt Anderson, of leaking damaging information about past sexual harassment allegations against Cain.
Anderson, who is now an adviser to Rick Perry, denied the charge in an email to POLITICO's Jonathan Martin: "I’ve known Herman Cain for about 7 years. I was one of several consultants on his Senate race in 2004 and was proud to help him. I'd never heard any of these allegations until I read them in Politico, nor does anything I read in the press change my opinion that Herman is an upstanding man and a gentleman. I have great respect for Herman and his character and I would never speak ill of him, on the record or off the record. That's true today and it's not going to change."
Cain's inflammatory charge came in an interview with Forbes:
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 Kurt 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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Yea, real easy to get ahead of a story when someone calls and asks about charges of sexual harassment and offers not a shred of details to find out what they have to respond to.
You would be wise to hold your biases masked as “justified” indignation just to take out someone who is spanking the daylight out of your favorite, whoever it is right now. It just gnaws at those who cannot get past life without a big government Permanent Political Class overlord to guide you through life.
p on Governor Perry with no real basis only serves the One and his media hacks.
Dumbest statement in history. If this was the general I would agree but this is a Republican primary that is it. It amazes me how you folks forget how ugly the Democratic primary was and the Democrats prevailed anyway. This is the time to fight for the nomination. McCain did not fight for the nomination. The entire republican candidates were WHIMPS during 2008. Boring and that is why nutcase McCain won. They need to want this nomination. Perry and Romney are the liberal part of the group and Cain is the conservative.
You are positively giddy.
I am and have been for awhile. Anytime a liberal like Perry goes down, I could not be happier. I have always thought that Romney was a non starter so I never paid him much attention. My thinking is correct. Romney does not have the support of conservative just like Perry because they are liberal. Cain will be our nominee unless they have pictures of him raping these women.
Funny...we're supposed to believe that on Monday he misspoke becasue he couldn't recall facts from the 1990's...but NOW he completely remembers a conversation he had about the same incident in 2001 or 2003. I find all of Cain's stories to date just a little too much to believe.
Of course not, no one does. This is simply an attempt by Cain to taint Perry with his dirty laundry. Cain's behaviour in this matter is despicable. He should be ashamed.
And then for Perry to turn around and point the finger at Romney....
As I have pointed out there were dozens of people working for or with the National Restaurant Association, including its lobbyists, staff members, active members, board and committee members and others such as hill staffers and even Congress persons who knew of these accusations and whatever proceedings there were, most likely before a commission. The fact that a couple of people once worked for Cain and now work for Perry is absolutely no proof that either of them was the source for the story on an arm of the One like Politico. More credible is the Washington Times story about Rahm dead fish as a possible instigator. Your obervation that the One in the Oval Office would have no interest in stirring up discord and accusations among Republican primary contenders is astonishingly naive.
The day Perry drops out of this campaign the better America will be.
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That’s the friggin’ truth. But, that was true before the smear campaign ever started.
This sounds plausible, Sarah.
I'm not impressed with Cain's finger-pointing. Cain has no evidence to back the accusation. It's only he-said-he-said.
The irony is clearly lost on this amateurish campaign.
The irrationally willful stubbornness of those who refuse to acknowledge Cain is not ready for prime time in spite of gaffe after gaffe, restatement after restatement, is just baffling.
Supposed Conservatives, many who decry Obama's inexperience or insisted only Palin could survive because she'd been fully vetted, are simply suicidal in 2012.
Not for me. Given Cain's 2008 support for Romney...his fawning praise for him this season and the complete lack of Romney's name in all of this tells me that something is up. Cain was never a serious contender...he was always a stalking horse for Romney and was only running for the number 2 slot on a Romney ticket. I've suspected this for more than a month now and became convinced of it the day following the Nevada debate.
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