Posted on 11/04/2011 2:24:56 PM PDT by martosko
Edited on 11/04/2011 2:34:52 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
A lawyer representing one of the women who accused GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s released a statement Friday after receiving approval from the National Restaurant Association. Despite the association’s permission for her to speak candidly, the statement did not included details of the allegations.
Attorney Joel Bennett, who represents one of the two women who filed complaints while Cain was the association’s CEO, said that the presidential candidate engaged in a “series of inappropriate behaviors,” but that his client “has chosen to not relive the details.”
I hate the US news media.
You don’t believe she exists? Are you serious?
She was an employee of the NRA when Cain headed it. He acknowledges that she filed a complaint and agreed to a settlement. The NRA now gives her permission to speak candidly but you suggest she doesn’t really exist?
Good grief.
Of course she exists. Do you think the NRA is in on a big hoax?
They can’t release the details because it pales in comparison to what democrats consistently give passes to—people like Clinton, T. Kennedy, Barney Frank, Edwards, etc.
They will be laughed at and never will be believed again by a LOT more people.
She has come to the realization that it will make her look foolish, and there is no other outcome. He probably told her that her slip was showing or something along that line.
Okay, she exists. But not as she’s being portrayed by a scumbag lawyer.
It’s easy to say anything you want to say in an opening statement, which is what this lawyer did. But during the trial the jury wants some evidence.
Sue.
SO - who was the scumbag behind this and how do we handle this as a civilized people? I mean, civilized people dealing with a diseased cockroach crawling towards an innocent infant's crib?
OK, this settles it. It was a lie 15 or 20 years ago and it still is.
He didn’t really say much. Just confirmed the basic facts of the settlement, so far as I heard. And, of course, that she says she hadn’t made things up the way Cain said she had.
I’m glad the NRA freed her to speak, however.
Here on FR? No way dude........./sarc
This is the site where the GOP comes to eat their own......
Well, he did say it was “sexual harrassment in our oppinion”. He’s a scumbag lawyer. That’s my oppinion.
I think Fox sometimes simply repeats Yahoo headlines for their “coming up next” tease. They’re becoming less and less balanced.
"Attorney Joel Bennett, who represents one of the two women who filed complaints while Cain was the association’s CEO, said that the presidential candidate engaged in a “series of inappropriate behaviors,” but that his client “has chosen to not relive the details.”
Translation: The allegations were laughable and would subject my clients to immense ridicule if they said what they actually were, but I'm going to make one last desperate attempt to imply that there was something serious and emotionally unbearable, and that there were "sexual harrassment" settlements, even though they received severance pay and the NRA admitted no liability...
Of course it was sexual harassment in their opinion, that’s what they filed a complaint and got a settlement for.
This attorney didn’t set out to get Herman Cain in order to get Herman Cain. He successfully handled a case for a client.
The money is not RIGHT yet.
Cain has not won the Primary.
They are just in the holding pattern right now, and a horrible situation for Cain to be in.
Love how CNN and the rest of the MSM is titling this story “Cain accuser stands by accusations”, then buries “but will not revisit it” several paragraphs down.
Makes me sick.
The only thing differentiating FNC from the other press weasels is their opinion programs. Their ‘news’ is pretty much the same.
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