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WASHINGTON — (AP) Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's campaign denied allegations Sunday that he was twice accused of sexual harassment while he was the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
In a statement to The Associated Press, his campaign disputed a Politico report that said Cain had been accused of sexually suggestive behavior toward at least two female employees.
The report said the women signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave them five-figure financial payouts to leave the association and barred them from discussing their departures
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-w...in-harassment/
Pubic hairs on the pizza?
Why would sexual harassment mean anything to a party that believes they have the right to control women? It wouldn't hurt him at all in the primaries.
LOL...
The left is getting worried.
Pulling out the dirty tricks already.
LOL...
When did the dirty tricks stop, from either party?
So then how would you view the "birther" movement by the right?
They never really do.
However, to bring such a thing up that probably can never be verified, against Cain, tells me that the democrats fear for him to win the nomination. If he does, they can't play all the race cards they have saved up their sleeve.
Worried? Cain is the new Palin--a curiosity to the media who throws meat to the party base. As with Palin, the Dems would love to run against him, but he is not a legitimate threat to win the GOP primary. He is good for some laughs though.
Since Cain is one of a group of remaining GOP candidates, what does the left have to gain here? ANY of the other GOP candidates have about a million more reasons to attack him, Tory boy.
Apparently, as something to conveniently ignore.
He certainly is.
there's no THERE there
I LOLd.
Hey, cutie, check out my huge pepperoni sausage. It would go excellently in your fur pie.
Ahh... So that's what they mean by delivering in 30 minutes or less.
All we need is to see the org's legal files (if they haven't been shredded) and for the 2 women to come forward and get their revenge.
Until then, Cain'tDo can lie unchallenged.
Report: Cain may have broken tax, election laws
his campaign realized Monday that he may face a problem much bigger than misconduct.
According to a report from the Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel, the new frontrunner in the Republican presidential race may have violated federal tax and campaign law.
Do ents obtained by the paper show the Cain campaign owing $40,000 to Prosperity USA, a private Wisconsin-based corporation owned by Cain’s chief of staff Mark Block and deputy chief of staff Linda Hansen. Cain’s federal election filings, however, has no mention of the debt nor do the do ents’ figures match any payments made by his campaign.
Prosperity USA paid Cain for gifts and items such as iPads, chartered flights and trips to Iowa and Las Vegas. The Journal-Sentinel reported that the corporation appears to now be defunct.
An unnamed GOP strategist interviewed by the Journal-Sentinel said Cain will have violated tax code law if Prosperity USA gave his campaign money for those items. “I just don’t see how they can justify this,” she said. “It’s a total mess.”
On Monday morning, Cain was asked on Fox News about the story.
“I’m not aware of this report,” he said. “My staff has not had time to go through it. I’m not aware, there not aware to it. We’re going to look at the report to see if there’s any validity. We will take a look at it.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/3...e+Raw+Story%29
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...rss=right-turnHerman Cain told Fox News that he never sexually harassed anyone, although he was falsely accused of such at the National Restaurant Association. He then declared: “If the restaurant association did a settlement, I wasn’t even aware of it and I hope it wasn’t for much. If there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers at the restaurant association.”
For that to be true, many things would also have to be true:
●Herman Cain never asked the NRA how the claim got resolved;
●Cain never had to sign a settlement agreement or any other do ent;
●He trusted the NRA to obtain a complete release on his behalf, and the women never demanded that Cain release potential counterclaims (e.g., for defamation);
●He never agreed to keep the matter confidential — for example, after he left the NRA. (Arguably the association could bind him while he was still employed, but wouldn’t it have had to tell him to ensure compliance?); and
●In his role as CEO, Cain never had to approve a settlement, was never told the cost of the settlement and never saw a budget entry confirming a settlement.
Sounds like something one of the other republican hopefuls might leak to the press to get Cain dropped from the primary.
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/10/31...ain-allegationNow compare [Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas] to Cain's situation. In Cain's case, the allegations actually came five years before he ran for any office, 12 years ago now. There was no way they were politically motivated, because Cain had never been a candidate for anything. Furthermore, the allegations came not just from one disgruntled employee, but from two separate women. One allegation can be a misunderstanding, or an oversensitivity, or a case of job-related payback. Two allegations, separate and distinct from each other, are at least the beginning of a pattern...
... Two different women complained, formally, about Cain's behavior, and they did so completely apart from any current battle. Both women were paid off in return for silence. That much is in the record. There is every reason for people to look into this further, and every reason for Cain to give a full accounting. People are falsely accused of all sorts of things, all the time. Cain merits the benefit of the doubt, for now, about these allegations -- but only long enough for him to put legitimate doubts to rest. He has not yet done so.
Do you think anyone cares about such speculation WH?
I would say Perry if he was still trying to win a political office.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archive....php?ref=fpblgIn fact, the campaign’s response was so bad over the last 10 days and even after the story broke last night that I don’t think we got a full-throated denial that any sexual harassment involving Cain has ever occurred from anyone associated with the campaign until this morning. The campaign got bogged down in denying whether there had been any such allegations made, what Cain had told the campaign about them, and other peripheral issues — and seemed to fail to grasp that the underlying allegations are what make this potentially very serious.
I’ve seen the purported payments from the National Restaurant Association to the two women Cain allegedly harassed described as hush money. That’s silly and comes at the problem only from the point of view of the NRA. There’s little upside in female employees going public with these kinds of allegations. That’s especially true in the insular world of DC trade associations, where the number of employers is relatively small and employment opportunities can be limited. So keeping it quiet could have certainly been in their interest, too.
One last point: No question that the NRA paying some kind of settlement to employees under Cain because of harassment allegations is newsworthy when it involves a guy running for president. But I’d be careful about jumping from the apparent fact that the NRA settled to the conclusion that the allegations were credible and well-founded. The two don’t always go hand in hand. We need more facts on that score than what are in the Politico story.
Yes. Obviously Cain cares too.
You didn't read the oped, did you? Quin Hillyer says a few things there you might like...
"Do you think anyone cares about such speculation WH?"
obviously, the non-Fox Repug Progaganda/non-hate-media people do, and "Christian" voters, although they always give sinners a pass if they cry on TV, say they're sorry, and be borned-again and again and again.
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