[Cincinatus' Wife]

Cain Says Perry Camp Behind Sex Harassment Leak

.....”One of the firm’s partners, Curt Anderson, worked on Cain’s losing 2004 U.S. Senate campaign. Cain thinks he’s the hired political gun who leaked details to Politico, a Washington trade publication, of alleged “sexually suggestive behavior” Cain is said to have exhibited towards two women while he ran the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. That story set off a media frenzy which has quickly put Cain’s campaign on the defense.

In the summer of 2003, Cain recalls briefing Anderson—his general campaign consultant at the time—that sexual harassment claims were brought against him while he was chairman of the National Restaurant Association from 1996 to 1999.

“I told my wife about this in 1999 and I’ve got nothing to hide,” Cain told me Wednesday. “When I sat down with my general campaign consultant Curt Anderson in a private room in our campaign offices in 2003 we discussed opposition research on me. It was a typical campaign conversation. I told him that there was only one case, one set of charges, one woman while I was at the National Restaurant Association. Those charges were baseless, but I thought he needed to know about them. I don’t recall anyone else being in the room when I told him.”....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardminiter/2011/11/02/herman-cain-sexual-harassment-leak/

[ejonesie22]

Well this will definitely help Perry move in the polls...

I figure down another 2 points, maybe 3...

[evets]

“I’ve known Herman Cain for about 7 years.
I was one of several consultants on his
Senate race in 2004 and was proud to help him.
I’d never heard any of these allegations
until I read them in Politico,
nor does anything I read in the press change my opinion
that Herman is an upstanding man and a gentleman. I
have great respect for Herman and his character
and I would never speak ill of him,
on the record or off the record.
That’s true today and it’s not going to change.”
- Curt Anderson

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67479.html

[hocndoc]

According to a tweet from Red State's Jeff Emanuel, Anderson just authorized any reporter that he's ever talked to, to "out" him.

@jeffemanuel Jeff Emanuel
Curt Anderson, Perry consultant Cain is accusing of leaking harassment story, just authorized any reporter he's ever spoken with to out him