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Cain accuser attorney: Client sees 'no value' in revisiting issue
CNN ^ | 11/4/11 | CNN/wire staff

Posted on 11/04/2011 1:38:06 PM PDT by ColdOne

CNN) - Joel Bennett, the attorney for one the women who has accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment, said Friday that his client "made a complaint in good faith about a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances" from the GOP presidential candidate.

Bennett said his client sees "no value" in revisiting the issue now, but "stands by the complaint that she made."

Bennett said his client would disagree with Cain's characterization of the alleged harassment incidents.

He confirmed that the alleged harassment occurred in 1999 over a period of "at least a month or two." There was "more than one incident," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; cainscandals; hermancain; sexualharassment
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To: magritte
Nope. The Politico story did that, not her.

Because they believed they could count on these people, yes. She and her attorney are the ones who gave every impression they were interested in going public. Her attorney even went so far to discuss this and suggest he'd ask the NRA to release them of their confidentiality agreement.

81 posted on 11/04/2011 2:15:54 PM PDT by bcsco (A vote for Cain will cure the Pain!)
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To: Yaelle

Good one.


82 posted on 11/04/2011 2:15:58 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: indylindy

I knew that. It’s time we called them to account.


83 posted on 11/04/2011 2:17:19 PM PDT by bcsco (A vote for Cain will cure the Pain!)
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She doesn’t want it revisited as it was probbably something stupid (Cain maybe looked at her crosseyed)and she was compensated for it to the tune of $5-figures.

This would be an embarrasment to her and everyone else involved in this “non story.”


84 posted on 11/04/2011 2:18:46 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: bcsco

All that was AFTER the Politico story. There was no interest before that.

Indeed, since the woman won’t come forward and still stands behind her allegations, this disproves the “she’s a gold-digger” trash-talking as well.


85 posted on 11/04/2011 2:18:55 PM PDT by magritte
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To: Lorianne

I still don’t get how one report quoted the lawyer saying this woman had to go live with her relatives because the media was staking out her home. Either he lied or somehow the media knows who she is but not one of them feels like leaking it.

This whole thing has been such a stupid joke.


86 posted on 11/04/2011 2:23:06 PM PDT by MiddleEarth (With hope or without hope we'll follow the trail of our enemies. Woe to them, if we prove the faster)
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To: eeevil conservative
Smart move! the gal must have wisened up a tad....

Or that 20+-year-old woman now has a career twelve years later and sees no reason to revisit the issue and have her name associated with any of this.

I don't believe she came forward on her own.

I believe her name was leaked and Politico is trying to force her hand. If - and I say if - there actually was an incident, she may have no desire to become a household name, or to have a gaggle of reporters outside her house, or have her kids know about this.

As a Cain supporter, I'm amazing at the thigh muscles that Freepers have developed in the last couple of days:

If Cain did something, I'm going to be very angry at him. He cost me a lot of emotional capital as well as donations. And I won't have a candidate in the field to support.

But in our own way, we on the forum are acting without facts as recklessly as any journalist. We just happen to be smearing women whose names we don't know, rather than a known political candidate.

87 posted on 11/04/2011 2:24:17 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: eeevil conservative
"Smart move! the gal must have wisened up a tad...."

Or she's waiting for the democrats to increase "the value" of revisiting it.

88 posted on 11/04/2011 2:24:26 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MiddleEarth

The media DOES know who she is. He said that in the presser and praised them for not revealing her identity.


89 posted on 11/04/2011 2:25:15 PM PDT by magritte
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To: ColdOne

President Cain has been vindicated by them not coming forward.

Maybe the Obama team is paying her to keep quiet so he can use it in the general.

Maybe she is 350 lbs (she really looooves the restaurant business)

Maybe she looks slightly better than Helen Thomas.

Maybe she is black.

Maybe the complaint says that Cain compared her height to his wife’s and it made her feel uncomfortable.

Maybe Cain was out of town on the dates of the accused harassment.

Maybe she has filed hundreds of sexual harassment cases and will be outed immediately as a shakedown artist.

Maybe the bidding hasn’t put her and her lawyer into the 1% for life yet.

The press will never release the names or pics of the accusers or the documents because then they will no longer be able to call him Herman Cain, the accused sexual harasser for the next nine years...


90 posted on 11/04/2011 2:26:12 PM PDT by Rad_J
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To: eeevil conservative

It could also be a timing issue. Let Cain win the Primary and then try to take him down.


91 posted on 11/04/2011 2:26:12 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: eeevil conservative

Being an insider playing the game (he’s treated Romney with softer kid gloves than has any other candidate up there) doesn’t mean he hasn’t been charitable and friendly to people like you.

Also doesn’t mean you shouldn’t support him.


92 posted on 11/04/2011 2:26:31 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Scoutmaster

The amount of venom spewed at this woman is Carville-quality, that’s for sure.


93 posted on 11/04/2011 2:28:46 PM PDT by magritte
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To: magritte

Well, then this is a first for media! I’m so impressed.


94 posted on 11/04/2011 2:32:58 PM PDT by MiddleEarth (With hope or without hope we'll follow the trail of our enemies. Woe to them, if we prove the faster)
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To: Scoutmaster

Are you anonymously accusing anonymous freepers of anonymously attacking anonymous women without releasing any facts?

I am offended that you would accuse freepers of engaging in journalism.


95 posted on 11/04/2011 2:33:16 PM PDT by Rad_J
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To: Rad_J
Are you anonymously accusing anonymous freepers of anonymously attacking anonymous women without releasing any facts?
I am offended that you would accuse freepers of engaging in journalism.


Now that made me laugh.
96 posted on 11/04/2011 2:35:23 PM PDT by DTxAg
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To: Scoutmaster

I happen to KNOW Herman personally, and have known him for years....I have had lunch with him— “ALONE!!!!”

The man is not even flirtatious...he is friendly, and very likable, but not the least bit flirty...

He is a GREAT man— so maybe you have a beef with others who only have Politidump for info....

I feel perfectly justified as a friend of Herman’s to be able to defend him...

I agree with you that I don’t think she came forward, I think others swooped in to use her for their own ruthless intentions....but I stand by my wisen up remark....making an accusation against the boss is one thing....dealing with the politics of this election is another...unless there is something truly horrible in her complaint, she would be giving ALL harrassment charges a black eye, if she decided to break an agreement in order to allow political rats to use it as fodder....

I’d say she has wisened up in the last few days....she was saying that she wanted to speak out...now, not so much...at least according to her attorney...


97 posted on 11/04/2011 2:35:49 PM PDT by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
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To: indylindy

She could simply say she didn’t feel it was necessary to bring herself forward and disrupt her life when Cain wasn’t even the Republican nominee.

A lot of people aren’t even paying attention right now. Don’t know how many people would believe her but who knows.


98 posted on 11/04/2011 2:36:46 PM PDT by beandog (Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
This is bullshit, she should be forced to prove her claims or shut up.

When has she not "shut up"? She has not said a word since this thing broke, there is no indication that the original leak came from her, and it does not seem like she is interested in becoming involved with this political BS. I don't understand why people are angry with this woman.

99 posted on 11/04/2011 2:40:34 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: 9YearLurker

UGH!! I don’t like Romney either!!! I scolded Herman about that about 2 years ago...one of those things he and I don’t agree on....


100 posted on 11/04/2011 2:41:30 PM PDT by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
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