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Herman Cain’s ‘lavish’ spending at National Restaurant Association drew scrutiny
Yahoo! News' The Ticket ^ | November 3, 2011 | Holly Bailey

Posted on 11/03/2011 10:56:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Herman Cain is pointing fingers at Rick Perry's campaign for leaking details about harassment allegations leveled against him when he was head of the National Restaurant Association.

But as revelations keep surfacing, it seems clear that plenty of other people may have had an interest in divulging less-than-flattering details about the Republican candidate's tenure at the NRA.

As Bloomberg's Lisa Lerer reports, Cain irked some of his NRA colleagues by operating in a "free-wheeling, free-spending culture:"

Former employees of the association told Bloomberg News that work-related outings frequently featured heavy drinking....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; hermancain; media; scandal
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Eating, drinking and luxury travel jaunts at a industry lobbying outfit? I'm shocked! Sounds like a typical weekend for Barry and Michelle.
1 posted on 11/03/2011 10:56:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Sad to see so much distraction working on the Cain Campaign.

GOP establishment and other devious individuals are acknowledging Mr. Cain’s power with this show of subterfuge...


2 posted on 11/03/2011 10:58:54 AM PDT by Barney59 ("It's not that liberals are stupid, it's just that they know so much that isn't true." - RR)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Source for these accusations?

Notice the trend? Once one smear blows up the smear merchants merely move to their next "anonymously sourced" smear.

3 posted on 11/03/2011 10:59:18 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eating, drinking, and resort destinations for a group that lobbies on behalf of the hospitality industry. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.


4 posted on 11/03/2011 11:00:34 AM PDT by hometoroost (Frodo lives!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This writer has obviously never attended a trade show.


5 posted on 11/03/2011 11:01:18 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: MNJohnnie

According to the polls, the only people buying it, so far, are people who wouldn’t vote for Mr. Cain with a gun to their head. Maybe he should make up some better lies about himself and leak them to Politico. Seems to be helpimg him, from what I can see.


6 posted on 11/03/2011 11:02:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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"Lavish?"

"Lavish?"

The Ubama's can't teach these clowns a thing or two about "lavish," if only they would not avert their eyes.

7 posted on 11/03/2011 11:03:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.)
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He likes to have fun?

OH NO~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 11/03/2011 11:03:23 AM PDT by Mr. K (The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was the 1990’s.
I’m sure this kind of spending doesn’t go on now during these tough economic times, right Holly?


9 posted on 11/03/2011 11:03:55 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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Celebrate Jim's Birthday!

Click On The Balloons And Party!

10 posted on 11/03/2011 11:04:05 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh for crying out loud. Come out BY NAME, show your freaking face and say these things. If they even exist. Cowards.


11 posted on 11/03/2011 11:05:52 AM PDT by justsaynomore (Pray for Herman Cain)
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I am really shocked, LOL ; http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110912/NEWS0605/110919967&template=mobileart


12 posted on 11/03/2011 11:06:23 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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And the PUBLIC money blown on M. Obama’s fancy clothes, Yahoo News?

No wonder you are looking for someone to buy you out.


13 posted on 11/03/2011 11:06:36 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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Seems like the last time we heard the word “lavish” was in regard to a certain former Governor’s wardrobe...

Of course, everything Barry and Moochelle do is reasonable and prudent...not to mention totally DESERVED for putting up with the horrors of being Potus and Flotus.


14 posted on 11/03/2011 11:07:24 AM PDT by bigbob
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Ha! Ask Michelle Obama about lavish. Damned hypocrites.


15 posted on 11/03/2011 11:08:10 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: VanDeKoik

Meanwhile the family of a part time Texas governor is living large in a sweet piece of rental property...


16 posted on 11/03/2011 11:08:14 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( The Prudential Governor... Have you bought your piece of the Rick)
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Wow, sounds like the typical midweek humpday White House party - gosh, shockingly, these parties aren't considered news anymore... Oh, right, it'd be raci... Man, how hard does it have to be to be a liberal, I can't keep track of the various race cards anymore.
17 posted on 11/03/2011 11:11:46 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I’ll give Mike Huckabee props for living in a donated double-wide while his governor’s mansion was being repaired. Ricardo dismissed the idea out of hand, as I understand it.


18 posted on 11/03/2011 11:13:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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Just wait..the next shoe to drop will be that when they went to KFC, Cain splurged on his expense account and ordered the BIG BUCKET


19 posted on 11/03/2011 11:13:30 AM PDT by ken5050 (Cain/Gingrich 2012!!! because sharing a couch with Pelosi is NOT the same as sharing a bed with her)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When someone in the srm gets upset by obama’s 7 trillion dollar party... I might just give a damn.

LLS


20 posted on 11/03/2011 11:16:14 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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