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Cain camp backs off Perry charge as new payout details emerge
Los Angeles Times ^ | 11/03/2011 | James Oliphant

Posted on 11/03/2011 12:04:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

That was fast: As part of its seemingly ever-evolving media strategy, Herman Cain’s campaign appears to have pulled the plug on blaming Rick Perry for the swirl of accusations surrounding the candidate.

“We want to move on with the campaign. Let’s get over these things that don’t mean anything to the American public,” Mark Block, Cain's campaign manager, told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on Thursday afternoon.

But that’s not about to become any easier. Politico reported Thursday that one of the women who accused Cain of sexual harassment during his time at the National Restaurant Assn. received a payout of $45,000 to settle the matter and keep quiet.

Previously, the New York Times reported that a second woman received a severance of $35,000—which for her was a year’s salary.

The Politico report would seem to again put Cain’s credibility at issue. He has said the woman’s complaint is one that he recalls, but has described it as “baseless” and first said she received a negligible “termination" settlement of perhaps two or three months' salary.

He later shifted his account, saying the amount could have been larger, perhaps six months’ salary.

Block appeared on Fox News on Wednesday evening and blistered the Perry campaign, accusing former Cain aide Curt Anderson, now in the Perry camp, of leaking details of the harassment allegations.

But Anderson, in a round of media interviews, denied knowing anything about the allegations and had nothing but good things to say about Cain.

“I didn't know anything about this. It's hard to leak something you don't know anything about, of course,” Anderson told CNN on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cainsexualharrass; herbcain; hermancain; loosecannon; rickperry; sexualharassment
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To: RitaOK

“Oh, I agree. Like maybe witnesses? And two settlements in three years with a third complaint who did not inhouse sue for settlement? There’s pretty much your “host of reasons”. LOL.”

As often as not, with sexual harassment cases in the business world, “a settlement” is the purpose of the accusation to begin with. Chances are 50-50 that the accusers got what they sought to get in the first place - $$$$.


121 posted on 11/03/2011 3:16:27 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: lonevoice
No better luck...I just got ignored. The "can't post links" excuse isn't working though.

I'm tired of all the stories that have been recanted, currently being told as if they are still valid.

122 posted on 11/03/2011 3:24:52 PM PDT by CAluvdubya
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To: jla

Perry would be very proud of you for that statement. /s

Happy zot!


123 posted on 11/03/2011 3:31:42 PM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Jedidah
Sheesh, that kind of talk is standard for the South...
...it's only a big deal when some thin skinned folks want to make it a big deal.
124 posted on 11/03/2011 3:35:26 PM PDT by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: lonevoice

Look, I don’t owe you my source list, links or anything else. I have sent you suggestions on my trail of research so you could supposedly “update” yourself because you asked. I tried to help. I explained that I don’t post links, articles or draw pictures in my comments. I have had a decent conversation with you, I thought, up thread and took the time to ping you to another thread I thought might help. Now you come here yowling about what I have heard on FOX, CNN and read on six other websites over the last couple of days. Go find it yourself. This story is admittedly changing moment to moment, but not for the better, as the media is in full feeding frenzy. What is said one minute may change in the next. If you can’t keep up, get a tutor. I will say what I have heard and read and what I believe with liberty. That’s my right. If you can’t discount it, tough. Maybe in a couple of days you can get on the front end of this cyclone, but right now you are behind the curve, don’t seem to know squat yourself and are teed off because I’ve read what you can not even find and from it I have formed an opinion. I don’t have to source an opinion. If it turns out the story changes and Herb is proven to have never said he has no skeletons in his closet, when he obviously did, and that the story was baseless, which it obviously wasn’t, that this was all fiction and that there were no pay outs by what ever name, and there was one girl, not three, let me know and I will decide if I believe it. Meanwhile, go rag your own pals who prefer to believe Cain is covered in glitter and it’s all Perry’s fault. And good luck with that. Maybe I pinged Lonewolf instead of you, btw. It was some loner something.


125 posted on 11/03/2011 3:39:41 PM PDT by RitaOK (TEXAS. It's EXHIBIT A for Rick, who needs to pound the fiction flackers back into the Stone Age.)
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To: org.whodat; hocndoc
So now it's "spin" and "opinon", after trashing hocndoc for "lying"?!

I'd say you "backed off" your post.

And that you owe hocndoc an apology ... in triplicate.

126 posted on 11/03/2011 3:41:36 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Wrong, it was an analysis, been reading long???


127 posted on 11/03/2011 3:43:17 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gotta disagree with you here on ‘keep digging.’ The money bomb was a sympathetic/angry response to a horrible smear. Turning around and smearing another candidate for the office he seeks was just plain dumb, and actually pretty low, on Cain’s part.

Let’s see if the $$$ and polling continues to rise. Not sure what polling’s been done since last night when Block and Cain unleashed their own baseless charges, from which they are now backing off.


128 posted on 11/03/2011 3:44:16 PM PDT by EDINVA (We Can't Wait, either)
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To: Nervous Tick
You're not serious?!

If ALL Bill Clinton ever did was ask a woman to 'doctor his tea'.....it would never have been a big deal.

But we well know Clinton more than likely asked women to 'play doctor with him'.....

Just pure silliness for you to compare the two.

129 posted on 11/03/2011 3:49:58 PM PDT by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: jla; darkwing104; 50mm; Old Sarge; 230FMJ; A.Hun; abigailsmybaby; AFPhys; Aircop_2006; ...
To hell with Cain and the white trash that supports the reprobate.

Trash conservative FReepers and you just may end up getting trashed yourself, jla. ZOT!

To be added or removed from the Viking Kitty/ZOT Ping List, FReepmail Darkwing104.

130 posted on 11/03/2011 3:52:58 PM PDT by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: 50mm

Yes, that was a particularly vile comment that he made.


131 posted on 11/03/2011 3:56:27 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jla
“To hell with Cain and the white trash that supports the reprobate.”

Do your knuckles ever come off the ground?

132 posted on 11/03/2011 4:04:39 PM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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To: jla
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jla, take your dirty sack and get the hell out of here!

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133 posted on 11/03/2011 4:06:29 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: jla; 50mm; TheOldLady; darkwing104; Arrowhead1952

134 posted on 11/03/2011 4:07:45 PM PDT by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: Guenevere

>> You’re not serious?

I’m completely serious. “Bill Clinton did it too!” is a bad defense of Herman Cain.

I didn’t come up with the comparison... the rabid Cain supporters in this forum did.

I’m just pointing out that that dog don’t hunt, hon. And you know it.


135 posted on 11/03/2011 4:08:45 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: 50mm

Oooooooooooooo New zot photo! LOL Right on!


136 posted on 11/03/2011 4:16:17 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: CAluvdubya
One settlement of $35,000 with $25,000 to the complainant and $10,000 to her lawyer.

That's a phone call sort of settlement. He must have made the call in DC. They have a 30% limit ~ give or take a few things like "expenses" ~ the $500 photo copy job, the $278 three minute phone call, the note pad where he took down the number.

Oh, yeah. He paid the rent that month, but what about after that? You don't get these tricks every day.

I wonder if she was dating her lawyer at the time.

137 posted on 11/03/2011 4:28:40 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: 50mm; jla

Wow, White Trash huh? I would love to hear how she came up with that. My bet, Romneybot. They seem to be the ones who most likely would throw that around for anyone that doesn’t lick the boots of their favorite high class used car salesman.


138 posted on 11/03/2011 4:32:46 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: true believer forever

“Doctoring” isn’t a Southern black term. I’m about as white as you can get, and that term has been a part of my Texas heritage all my long life.

Kinda like “fixin.”

I’m thinking these accusations and discomfort are largely a result of a strong black man speaking to white women.


139 posted on 11/03/2011 4:35:23 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: RitaOK

Got it. You’re unable to provide a single link or to document a single source from which you’ve obtained what you present as facts. Nor have I read from a single other FReeper, Cain friend or foe, who claims to have read or heard the particular allegations you’re making and that I, and others, have questioned.

If I’d read your posting history prior to asking the question, I can assure you I wouldn’t have asked you. That’s my mistake, and I apologize that you’re now so riled up because of it. You’re clearly more emotionally invested, and your posts tend to a much more vitriolic style, than I normally engage.

Breathe.


140 posted on 11/03/2011 4:37:02 PM PDT by lonevoice (The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers, impeach we much. We will much about that be committed.)
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