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Third former worker says Cain behaviour ‘inappropriate’
Toronto Star ^ | Published 15 minutes ago | Toronto Star/AP

Posted on 11/02/2011 1:35:14 PM PDT by tcrlaf

WASHINGTON—A third former employee says she considered filing a workplace complaint over what she considered aggressive and unwanted behaviour by Republican candidate Herman Cain when she worked for the presidential candidate in the 1990s. She says the behaviour included a private invitation to his corporate apartment.

She worked for the National Restaurant Association when he was its head. She told the Associated Press that Cain made sexually suggestive remarks or gestures about the same time that two co-workers had settled separate harassment complaints against him.

The employee described situations in which she said Cain told her he had confided to colleagues how attractive she was and invited her to his corporate apartment outside work. She spoke on condition of anonymity, saying she feared retaliation.

Cain’s campaign declined to comment.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allegations; cain; cainbimboeruptions; duplicate; harassment; herbcain; hermancain; notbreakingnews; sexualharassment
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To: tcrlaf
She says the behaviour included a private invitation to his corporate apartment.

Private invitation could mean anything. This could be anything from asking her to drop off files to letting her know the apartment was available if she needed it.

If he was this fast and loose, their has to be some female who took him up on the invitation. Where are they?

21 posted on 11/02/2011 1:56:53 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: goldstategop

Or a woman who “came on” to Cain and was rebuffed.

Which is about what I figure happened between Thomas and Hill.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned (or rejected)!


22 posted on 11/02/2011 1:59:34 PM PDT by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture....all should be preserved)
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To: goldstategop
...the truth is its more likely for women to use sex to gain a promotion or favors from powerful men than its the other way around.

True enough, maybe she wanted to do the boss in order to get ahead and he said no. A woman scorned and all that. At best we have a he said she said situation, but knowing the way the laws are set up it is more likely gold diggers looking for more.

23 posted on 11/02/2011 2:00:10 PM PDT by DaveyB (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
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To: All

So if everything the woman says is true, the worst case scenario is:

Cain: You are cute, wanna come up to my room?
Female: NO
Cain: OK

yawn.... No oral/anal contact or cigar insertions like clinton? (Starr Report) No visits to to witnesses resulting in slashed tire and dead pets? No phone calls at 2am to inform a girlfriend that another witness’s “brother had just been killed in a hit and run and BTW you are now a witness against me”? No audio tapes that are attacked as fake by a private-eye who is later arrested for witness intimidation and is found to have C-4 explosives and hand grenades in their safe? The same private eye is said to have been good at making murder look like suicide in the court case against him? No rape allegations or suggestions that a rape victim put some ice on her bit lip?


24 posted on 11/02/2011 2:00:52 PM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: tcrlaf

have you ever seen such vague allegations? Bill Clinton did 100x worse and the MSM loved him.


25 posted on 11/02/2011 2:01:33 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: tcrlaf

Could Cain sue her for slander?


26 posted on 11/02/2011 2:02:26 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: GeronL; All

Well, if no one will dare to say it, I WILL...

Using a page from the Democrat Playbook, these women are OBVIOUSLY RACIST, and frightened by a strong-willed hetrosexual BLACK MAN!!!


27 posted on 11/02/2011 2:03:48 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: icwhatudo

True. Sounds like nothing happened.


28 posted on 11/02/2011 2:05:12 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: tcrlaf

If this woman knew about the other women, they would have all joined in a suit and cashed in big time. All lies as far as I’m concerned.

And I’m going to be like Clintonistas. If Cain admits it, I STILL won’t believe it.


29 posted on 11/02/2011 2:07:45 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Where is the OPPOSITION party? I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: icwhatudo
Under the law your worst case scenario does not constitute sexual harassment. It is a nonevent, unless he tried to coerce her or offer a quid pro quo, or ignored her refusal and pressed the issue.

This "third woman" is a fraudulent smear. Probably no such person exists.

31 posted on 11/02/2011 2:17:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: merryandrew

So far we have three potential “allegations.”

One is a woman that Cain supposedly told was as tall as his wife. Why this is even mentioned is beyond me. If that’s going to get him in to trouble then you might as well never speak to women about anything at any point in time.

Two, in the worst case, is as described in 24. In the likely case, it is nothing.

Three is unknown, and also likely nothing.

I suspect that all of this is nothing.


32 posted on 11/02/2011 2:18:02 PM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: tcrlaf

It would seem the first “cut” at this didn’t work. So, now we are going to have an endless parade of women saying the same $hit.

Screw ‘em (figuratively, of course).

Go, Herman, Go dammit!


33 posted on 11/02/2011 2:18:35 PM PDT by nesnah
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34 posted on 11/02/2011 2:27:26 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: tcrlaf

The money and support is pouring in for Herman Cain, but we cannot slow down now. Please help him by donating at http://www.hermancain.com/

Also to help join the buzz about Herman go to facebook.com and “like” him. In just the last week he has jumped 13% or 42000 with an impressive 10,000 in the last 24 hours. Make no mistake Karl Rove is watching Herman’s “likes” and so is Romney who gained just 1500 since last Tuesday. THIS is the way to stick it to the GOP establishment! Please tell your family and friends to “like” Herman as well.


35 posted on 11/02/2011 2:27:58 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: EGPWS

Can’t wait the video of Perry in the steam-room with the three transgendered Inuit dwarves hits YouTube!


36 posted on 11/02/2011 2:35:54 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Once they've called you a racist, you've got nothing to lose.)
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37 posted on 11/02/2011 2:37:47 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: Pravious
This makes me sick. Just another reason I hate that Palin decided not to run... they’d already thrown everything in the book at her, and nothing stuck (in spite of their childish insistence to the contrary). This crap might stick. So... what’s going to happen? Do we need to see each of our candidates destroyed one-by-one... if not by our other candidates, than by a bunch of scum-sucking leftist slime, aided and abetted by the mainstream media? So we’re gonna wake up one day and find no one left standing except the candidate the powers-that-be demand be on our ticket (and you all know who THAT is). Can’t we just wipe the friggin’ slate clean and find ANOTHER half dozen people? Kind of like kicking nitwits off of a jury, and choosing another? NONE of these people are really acceptable. NONE OF THEM.
NOW what do we do? Cain is finished. Too many different stories on this, on abortion, on whether 9/9/9 will make that 48 per cent start paying some taxes. Who is left for conservatives? We need to convince Sarah to run, maybe she has been waiting for these trainwrecks to be over before she jumps in. PLEASE SARAH we need a CONSERVATIVE.
38 posted on 11/02/2011 2:40:46 PM PDT by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12-XXX= Now what? Cain?XX Guess not.)
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To: goldstategop

Uh, when I was single I was invited to a married man’s hotel room (he was in town for our company doing management training).....I turned HIM down....Not that I don’t think women do that sort of thing, BUT, I’d say it’s at LEAST even steven.


39 posted on 11/02/2011 2:48:20 PM PDT by goodnesswins (My Kid/Grandkids are NOT your ATM, liberals! (Sarah Palin))
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To: Winstons Julia

Unnamed, invisible, political enemy accusers. Now we see the “charges” evolve from sexual harrassment to “inappropriate behavior”. Cain will easily beat these slime. I just sent him $25.

Keep it coming Perrywinkle, Romney and your demrat controllers. Next invented allegation will result in me sending Cain another $25. This is one way we can shut this BS down.

We will not allow you pieces of crap to lynch this man.


40 posted on 11/02/2011 2:48:59 PM PDT by dools0007world
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