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PICKET: Cain source says Perry camp and Rahm Emanuel behind sex harassment accuser attacks
Washington Times ^ | 11-2-2011 | Kerry Pickett

Posted on 11/02/2011 3:09:32 PM PDT by smoothsailing

PICKET: Cain source says Perry camp and Rahm Emanuel behind sex harassment accuser attacks

Kerry Pickett

November 2, 2011

Herman Cain's campaign are revealing their own suspicions about who is behind the story regarding the former unidentified employees who accused Mr. Cain of sexual harassment in the late 1990's.

According to a Cain campaign source, not only is the Rick Perry campaign involved but also the Mayor of Chicago and former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The Cain campaign believes a National Restaurant Association (NRA) employee out of the Chicago office leaked the story to the Perry campaign via information and influence from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office...

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cainsexualharrass; nowiamconfused; rahm
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To: worst-case scenario
This week I was talking with an activist within the dem party and they ARE very aware of Cain and it is in their interest to see him get in a pissing match with the other GOP candidates.

The dems have a HUGE stake in who the Republicans nominate. Trust me on this!!

Although I suspect that Rahm would have waited until next fall to release this.

Bottom line...the GOP candidates fighting each other is just what the dems wanted.

41 posted on 11/02/2011 4:16:54 PM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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To: Travis McGee

It’s a bit different today, when internet forensics are at a new level. Many a tangled tale can be unwoven, woe be to the wrong-doers.


Anthony Weiner: “sadly, Travis is correct. “


42 posted on 11/02/2011 4:20:09 PM PDT by Yaelle (Donate to Cain today to show the media they can't choose our candidate this time.)
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To: TomGuy

I think it was Kay Bailey Hutchinson who leaked to Cain that it was Perry. :)


43 posted on 11/02/2011 4:22:41 PM PDT by smoothsailing (FUMR-FUBO- the left is a seething mass neurosis)
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To: smoothsailing

Better now than a year from now if he had won the nomination. Oddly inept as how he has handled this. If the allegations are false he has done great damage by playing the race card and blaming ‘others’. This is something he should have told us about at the start.


44 posted on 11/02/2011 4:22:55 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Brandonmark

Well, since Mark Block jusr accused the Perry team of the whole shebang, I think we can safelt rule out Rahm’s influence.

Although there are probably broad smiles in the Obama re-election campaign headquarters watching this fiasco.


45 posted on 11/02/2011 4:31:35 PM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reSo by that reasoning, all of America's poor would be rich - if they onlyeach the light)
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To: samtheman
It is here:

picket-source-rham-emanuel

46 posted on 11/02/2011 4:34:45 PM PDT by RobertClark ("Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: smoothsailing
Who will Cain blame next? Anthony Weiner?

I think Cain blew it with these allegations.

I think he could have defended the sexual harassment charges and been OK.

But this doesn't smell good at all.

47 posted on 11/02/2011 4:36:46 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: smoothsailing

My question is Does Romney still own Politico? He bought up a bunch of conservative websites back in 2008. I remember that. Again these smears do sound identical to the ones he did against all the other candidates running at the time.


48 posted on 11/02/2011 4:37:31 PM PDT by bradactor
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49 posted on 11/02/2011 4:40:28 PM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: worst-case scenario
Although there are probably broad smiles in the Obama re-election campaign headquarters watching this fiasco.

Yes...I am afraid that is exactly the case!

50 posted on 11/02/2011 4:40:36 PM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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To: Yaelle

I operate under the assumption that every word I’ve ever typed is stored somewhere, accessible by all kinds of bad actors, with and without govt license.


51 posted on 11/02/2011 4:49:25 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: smoothsailing

Did you miss that Chris Wallace, a GOP pollster, is running his mouth about it claiming he knew all about it and was a witness to it but did nothing to stop whatever it was? This would be the same Wallace who works for Perry (and previously Rove) and has an office across the street from Perry’s office in Austin, TX. But, yeah, believe what you want.


52 posted on 11/02/2011 4:49:34 PM PDT by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: worst-case scenario
but Rahm has no dog in this fight

Obama v. Cain? Sure, like they'd want that happening. He may not have a dog but he sure does have a big stinking RAT in his fight to destroy America.

53 posted on 11/02/2011 4:52:01 PM PDT by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: Allegra

It’s crazy, it looks like the Cain people are just lashing out in all directions to divert attention from something else.


54 posted on 11/02/2011 4:52:21 PM PDT by smoothsailing (FUMR-FUBO- the left is a seething mass neurosis)
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To: Jim from C-Town

That is the whole point of the sexual harassment law. Inappropriate means whatever the person complaining about it wants it to mean. I went to EO training in the Army and the guidance was that it did not matter if the person saying or doing something meant to be offensive, it was all in how the receiver perceived it. I think sexual harassment laws are unconstitutional because they stifle free speech. I always thought that protecting offensive speech was the entire point of that amendment.


55 posted on 11/02/2011 4:55:18 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: all the best
Wouldn’t it be more productive to deal with the accusations rather than who is behind their coming to light?

Perhpas, if there was anything to the non-scandal. As it is, the real story is who putting it out there. Whomever it is (Chris Wallace, associated with Perry, has admitted it and is running his mouth) and if they can be linked to a candidate then that candidate is lower than scum and needs to slink back from where they came. We don't need another liar and backstabber in our White House.

56 posted on 11/02/2011 4:55:52 PM PDT by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: smoothsailing; shield
Who will Cain blame next? Anthony Weiner?

LOL

The guy they accuse from the Perry staff denies it and Politico printed his statement denying it. Wouldn't Politico be violating all kinds of journalistic ethics by printing a denial from someone who they knew was the source for an article they ran? Also, Perry's campaign has stated they didn't have anything to do with it.

What does it say about Cain's character to attack someone else with no proof. He was more subtle with the rock stuff but it's similar.

57 posted on 11/02/2011 5:02:33 PM PDT by wmfights (PERRY 2012)
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To: wmfights
What does it say about Cain's character to attack someone else with no proof.

I suppose the same thing it says about Perry's character in trying to finger Romney for this.

58 posted on 11/02/2011 5:05:08 PM PDT by kevao
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To: smoothsailing

Easy throw away comments are not honorable or even justified here!

The whole country is burning to the ground and that’s the best comment you can come up with?

10,000 comedians out of work and here you are, trying to be funny.


59 posted on 11/02/2011 5:08:39 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Hang in there Herman, conservatives love you!)
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To: traditional1; smoothsailing; xzins; P-Marlowe
I don’t like leaking this info out by the Dem’s OR opposing candidates, BUT, if there’s something to the story, I am more disappointed in Cain’s past actions than he’s admitting?

I'm a Perry contributor and I doubt there is anything to the accusations. It just doesn't add up. If someone is a "hound dog" they don't stop.

However, the ease in which he threw out the race card on the rock issue and now along with his willingness to accuse others of leaking the story with NO PROOF is not a great character trait.

60 posted on 11/02/2011 5:09:21 PM PDT by wmfights (PERRY 2012)
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