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PICKET: Source - Rahm Emanuel involved in Cain sexual harassment accuser attacks
Washington Times ^ | 11/02/2011 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 12/01/2011 4:39:34 PM PST by Fred

UPDATE -Mayor Emanuel is denying he is involved in anyway with the exchange of information regarding Cain's sexual harassment accusers.

Herman Cain's campaign is revealing 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 source who is friends with the Cain campaign, not only is the Rick Perry campaign involved but also the Mayor of Chicago and former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is likely involved with the sexual harassment accuser attacks. A friend of 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.

According to Politico's Jonathan Martin, Curt Anderson, the Perry advisor who the Cain campaign is accusing of leaking the damaging information, is denying the charges:

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: alexanderburns; alexburns; anonymoussources; cain; chicagomob; curtanderson; georgia; hermancain; illinois; jonathanmartin; kerrypicket; politico; rahm; rahmemanuel; rickperry; stephanopoulos; thiswillnotpass
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To: Fred
Interesting. When somebody outside the Cain campaign says something, they're "unfounded allegations." When the Cain campaign named the one man it knew leaked the two harassment claims at the National Restaurant Association because Herman Cain had told him about one of them when Cain ran for Senate, it's not considered an allegation by Cain supporters.

Remember that Cain claimed he only knew of one claim. Remember that Cain said he told the advisor of only that one claim when Cain ran for Senate.

So is it that that guy, who was never at the National Restaurant Association, was the only person in the world that could have leaked both settlements?

And why does everyone say all of this was set up by Obama and his Chicago machine? In 1998 and 1999, did the unknown Barack Obama fear that the unknown President of the National Restaurant Association, Herman Cain, would one day run in the primaries to run against Obama for President? And coerce two women to make claims against Cain back in 1999?

None of that is logical.

21 posted on 12/01/2011 4:56:28 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Fred

Why wouldn’t Hillary be involved? As long as we are speculating............


22 posted on 12/01/2011 4:56:28 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Fred

The date of the source Washington Times article is November 2, 2011, 06:59PM. Hardly breaking news.


23 posted on 12/01/2011 5:00:24 PM PST by NautiNurse (Zot! Cut! Slash! --That's the sound of the men workin' on the Cain gang)
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To: Fred

I’m confused. Is this article a month old?


24 posted on 12/01/2011 5:00:50 PM PST by MiddleEarth (With hope or without hope we'll follow the trail of our enemies. Woe to them, if we prove the faster)
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To: achilles2000
Doesn’t the Cain campaign understand that it needs to present credible facts? Not guilt by alleged association, not hunches, but cold hard facts.

How about we take that statement and turn it around a little?

Doesn’t the Cain campaign THE MEDIA understand that it needs to present credible facts? Not guilt by alleged association, not hunches, but cold hard facts.

I wish the same courtesy was extended to Mr. Cain.

25 posted on 12/01/2011 5:01:09 PM PST by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: Fred

who cares at this point who did what. whomever did shine a light on this weakness in Cain saved us all a lot of heartache and embarrassment in the general election. Cain’s poor wife is all I can say. She came out publicly to defend her man and got knifed.


26 posted on 12/01/2011 5:01:23 PM PST by GOP Poet (Time for Bambi and his commie crew to go.)
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To: Fred
A friend of 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.

Rahm and Rick in a conspiracy to take down Cain? This makes as much sense as the Moon landing being faked. Maybe there was CIA involvement in this as well.

27 posted on 12/01/2011 5:01:44 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Fred
time for Rahm and Stephanopoulos, to hand over their call records and text messages

On what grounds? Should Cain and Block turn over their call records and text messages too? We know they've been chatting about these accusations. We don't know that Rahm or Stephanopoulos had anything to do with it. As those who continue to deny that Cain could possibly have done anything wrong call them . . . those are just unfounded allegations.

28 posted on 12/01/2011 5:02:47 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Fred

The Chicago mafia — gee, who’d a thunk it? I don’t care what office they get appointed or elected to - Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod have never been and never will be anything more than professional sheet sniffers for the democrats.


29 posted on 12/01/2011 5:03:49 PM PST by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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To: Never on my watch

paying some woman’s monthly bills without the wife’s notice doesn’t smell so righteous to me. Thank God we didn’t find out about this stuff after he was representing us in the general election. then we’d be screwed like his poor wife was. she trusted him and found out he is taking care of a second woman’s pills. men don’t just take of women’s bills behind their wives back.


30 posted on 12/01/2011 5:03:53 PM PST by GOP Poet (Time for Bambi and his commie crew to go.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Fred.
According to Politico's Jonathan Martin, Curt Anderson, the Perry advisor who the Cain campaign is accusing of leaking the damaging information, is denying the charges...

31 posted on 12/01/2011 5:04:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GOP Poet

mooch buddys suck, never get one any ever. No good deed goes unpunished.


32 posted on 12/01/2011 5:06:35 PM PST by Fred (Obamacare=Romneycare=Newtcare all are BigGovt)
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To: Reagan69

Paranoia goes hand in hand with delusions of grandeur.


33 posted on 12/01/2011 5:07:42 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Newt says amnesty isn't amnesty.)
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To: Fred

Hey, hey, ho, ho
Ole Rick Perry has to go!

:-)


34 posted on 12/01/2011 5:08:49 PM PST by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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To: Scoutmaster
Scientist have just recently discovered that just being in the company of a sociopath for even a few minutes a day can turn one also into a sociopath. It's a kind of chemical thing they think. 1 corinthians 15:33
35 posted on 12/01/2011 5:11:02 PM PST by Esther Ruth
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To: Never on my watch
cold hard facts

The cold hard facts are that the National Restaurant Association settled two harassment claims against Cain in 1999. It was *not* normal for a CEO to have a harassment claim filed against them during that period, much less two.

The NRA settled both claims, although in 1998 even the EEOC only found cause to investigate harassment claims in 60% of claims. And that was just to investigate them.

The NRA settled them for $35K and $45K, which was *way* more than nuisance claims were settled for in 1999. A 1998 study showed that the average settlement of a harassment *lawsuit* (which settles for a much greater amount than a mere claim) was $38.5K, which includes those settlements in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for serial and institutional harassment, and the truly obscene harassment cases. Nuisance lawsuits (if you know your math) were therefore settled for much, much less than $38.5K. Nuisance claims that never went to suit would have settled for less than that. I've posted the link to the study several times and Cain supporters say, "well, I don't need a scientific study, my friend said those are nuisance amounts."

$35K and $45K say they were not nuisance claims. Two of them say the NRA had a problem with Cain in 1998-1999.

Those are cold, hard facts.

As for other women, I have no cold, hard facts - other than Ginger White and what Cain said today about giving her money and not telling his wife. But not everything about Cain is without cold, hard facts.

36 posted on 12/01/2011 5:11:58 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: GOP Poet

I am real sorry about Perry, but he is not well, he needs pain management for his back. He is making mistakes that are coming from a physical aliment. the vote age...


37 posted on 12/01/2011 5:13:01 PM PST by Fred (Obamacare=Romneycare=Newtcare all are BigGovt)
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To: Esther Ruth
Scientist have just recently discovered that just being in the company of a sociopath for even a few minutes a day can turn one also into a sociopath. It's a kind of chemical thing they think. 1 corinthians 15:33

Sorry, Esther Ruth, I'm not following you. I apologize for being dimwitted tonight.

38 posted on 12/01/2011 5:14:00 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Fred; tedw

ping


39 posted on 12/01/2011 5:14:35 PM PST by abigail2
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To: JohnKinAK

Those of us who supported Cain dropped him because of his poor performance, not these alleged scandals. If he had done better, we’d be demanding investigations and the truth. But what for at this point?


40 posted on 12/01/2011 5:16:15 PM PST by MichaelNewton
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