Posted on 11/08/2011 5:39:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Interesting that she’s decided to speak out now after The Daily revealed her identity. Is that because she knows she’ll be hounded anyway and figures she has nothing to lose in talking to the press? Or is she tired of Cain calling her a liar?
“When you are being sexually harassed in the workplace, you are extremely vulnerable,” [Kraushaar] said. “You do whatever you can to quickly get yourself into a job someplace safe, and that is what I thought I had achieved when I left.”…
She said she did not know whether or how she might tell more of her story, but had been warming “to the idea of a joint press conference where all of the women would be together with our attorneys and all of this evidence would be considered together.”
She said of Mr. Cain: “These allegations can be considered together as a body of evidence.”
Politico reveals that she’s the one who received the $45,000 settlement from the NRA. Via Fox News, here’s two snippets from Cain’s presser, the highlight of which was probably him saying he’d be willing to take a lie-detector test — but only if someone gives him a good reason to do it. I’m thinking the spectacle of multiple accusers in front of the cameras, using their own names, at a joint press conference would be withering enough to give him that reason. But maybe there’s another way: Like Ace says, there must be some documentation somewhere confirming or debunking Bialek’s story about the meeting and the hotel in 1997. Either the hotel, the NRA, or a credit card company must have receipts.
Go read Jim Geraghty’s list of unasked questions at the press conference. He has messages out to the Chicago hotel to try to find out if Bialek’s suite was upgraded, as she claims, but they haven’t responded to him yet. Exit quotation: “There will probably be others – not because I am aware of any, but because the machine to keep a businessman out of the White House is going to be relentless.”
The media can flog the dead horse... I don’t see anything new if more women step forward.
The country doesn’t care.
Agree. Those who support Cain are going to do so even stronger, and those who would never vote for him anyway are going to continue to beat this dead horse. What matters is what’s going on the few days prior to the Iowa primary when most people will start to think about who to vote for.
To Tear Down Herman Cain is to aid Mitt Romney & the Marxist Kenyan.
Bring it on, he’s still standing. The media may fail on this.
I disagree. The people who support Cain now don't care. They will double down on Cain in outrage at the "smear campaign". But one of the FOX political reporters (don't remember his name) made a good point, that if this drags on, a lor of potential Cain supporters aren't going to be comfortable judging one way or another, won't want to hear about it through the whole elction, and may decide to avoid the whole deal by picking someone else.
Steven Hayes.
Yep. There can't be such a thing as a black Republican President. He's getting crushed between an elephant and an ass.
In other words, they want to all get together so they can get their stories straight.
Victim #1 - Had an agreement to depart from the NRA for a $45,000 payment. Her brother-in-law revealed her identity. The NRA found her sexual harassment claim unfounded. She now want to get a round-table of “victims” together for a Presser.
Victim#2 - Also paid a severance package negotiated by her attorney and an attorney for the NRA. From what I have heard her identity is still unknown.
Victim #3 - Someone who called Victim #1’s attorney and said while she didn't have an actual claim filed with the NRA she was sexually harassed by Cain. She identified herself as “Sharon”. When Sharon Bialek was asked this morning if she contacted any other attorney on this matter she hemmed around and then her attorney, Gloria Allred stepped in and said that whether she contacted another attorney had no bearing on the case. Some folks assume that Victim #3 is also Victim #4.
Victim #4 - One Sharon Bialek. The current woman making the MSM media rounds with Gloria Allred.
Victim #5 - Her sexual assault allegation is that Herman Cain asked for her to arrange to meet a woman who had a question from the audience for Mr. Cain at a speech and Herman Cain asked the organizer if she could arrange for him to have dinner with the young lady to discuss her interest further. The Organizer classified this action as sexual harassment. The Organizer said she thought it was a bad idea so Herman asked the Organizer if she wanted to go to dinner. She accepted and brought another woman with her to the dinner. The Organizer claims no sexual overtures were made at the dinner, but Herman ordered two bottles of $400 wine and left the Organizer with the tab to pay.
So, perhaps we don't have 5 accusers but only 4. One may never come out to speak.
Sharon Biabek is questionable at best.
#5 has used her own standard for what she thinks was “sexual harassment”.
I just don't see where any of these “accusation” constitute Herman Cain as being unfit to be POTUS.
All of these incidents are hearsay or either interpretation by the “accusers” of what the definition of sexual harassment.
JMHO!
I am an old woman now, but I was a very attractive woman when I was younger. Some people say I still am attractive. I worked in a lumber brokerage where the men all around me deliberately talked off color stuff until I stood up and told them if they didn’t shut their mouths around me I would quit. That worked like a charm!
It wouldn’t have occurred to me to sue anyone. And I had to fight off the men when I was in Real Estate, but I survived as a Christian mother of three. So why are these bimbos out to get their pound of flesh from Herman Cain? Don’t tell me it isn’t political! Are any of these blonds Rep[ublican? I don’t think so.
It’s going to be rather impossible to call a hotel in CHICAGO to inquire about an alleged room upgrade that occurred in WASHINGTON DC.
“Because if I’m surrounded by several other women with shaky stories, my labeling of a gesture referencing height as sexual harassment won’t seem quite so ridiculous.”
My wife is quite a looker. She intentionally hides her figure under long sweaters. She was walking in the city the other day and she got whistled at. She admitted that it always flatters her on some level. She knows that one day the whistles will stop, and that she will long for the day that she is no longer "annoyed" by them.
None of these ladies has written a book of their so called encounter with Cain and included receipts. The more Larry Sinclair's name is used, the more the media drops this story of Cain.
Oops, inelegantly written. When she becomes an old woman, my wife will long for the days when she was “annoyed” by wolf whistles.
Never mind the facts son, we gota to get on with the lyncing of this here negro!!!
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