GOP candidate Herman Cain accused of sexual harassment in mid '90s
By EJ DicksonOctober 31st, 2011, 7:00 amComments (27)
According to the AP via Politico, GOP candidate Herman Cain was accused of sexual harassment by two female employees in the mid-'90s, when he was the head of the National Restaurant Association. Cain's spokesperson issued a statement to the AP fervently denying the allegations against him, as well as Politico's claims that the women were offered a five-figure payout if they left the organization and never spoke of the charges again.
Although Cain has ridden on the momentum of his early start in the polls for the past few months, barely trailing behind fellow GOP candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the sexual-harassment accusations could tarnish his squeaky-clean reputation as shitty-pizza-chain impresario/late '90s computer-game aficionado/inadvertent lung-cancer proponent. For his part, Cain vehemently denies the claims, rhetorically asking a Politico reporter if he had "ever been accused of sexual harassment" when the website confronted him outside the CBS News Washington bureau, where Cain had just been interviewed for Face the Nation. We'll see how well his "I know you are, but what am I?" preschool rhetoric serves him during the next debate in Michigan, right after he accuses Rick Perry of being a doodyhead.
Comments ( 27 )
A conservative African American? He must be stopped! Was the accuser Anita Hill?
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last thing you want is a president getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from me intern.
"Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."
Democrat "Consultant" James Carville
Being a sex harrasser probably helps with the Republican base -- unless the women were white, then he has a problem.
"Being a sex harrasser probably helps with the Republican base"
Oh yeah? then why isn't ginrich polling better?
And why wasn't Clinton more popular among Democrats?
Dragging out the race argument, robert? You're better than that. Even Chris Matthews has had to drop the whole Conservatives/Tea Party is/are racist(s).
The Tea Party is unquestionably racist, that's why they keep the birther non-issue alive. I started getting ugly racist emails about Obama from Tea Party people in 2008. They seem to be in stealth mode now, but I expect a new flood of racist Tea Party messages as we near next November.
So is the Tea Party anit-semitic like the majority of the OWS crowd?
Gotta love those hate filled posters they're showing.
And the Tea Party doesn't have a problem with Obama per se, after all in the word of the current Vice President Biden "he's a well spoken black man".
@Kel - So racist that it supports Herman Cain? There are unquestionably racists that associate themselves with the Tea Party, just as there are racists that associate themselves with the Progressives. That does not make either groups racist. I wouldn't expect the flood, particularly when Herman Cain is on the GOP ticket.
that teabaggers think supporting Herman Cain = they aren't racists. It's even more effective than, "Hey, I'm not racist! I've got a black friend!"
Cheap talk from a guy who openly hates Cain just because he is black.
No, he hates me because I'm an idiot. Which coincidentally, is why you love me!
Guess you can't stay out of the spotlight and run for President at the same time. And from all we've seen of Cain so far, I think that we'll see a LOT more bad news about him rise to the surface as this campaign grinds on.
Yeah, I don't have any problem charging the majority of the wingnuts who make up the Tea Party and the radical right wing of the Republican party with racism. What's interesting here is that there is speculation that this is coming from the mainstream wing to try to torpedo Cain and protect Romney.
You don't need to go around accusing people of racism. It doesn't make you seem smart - just a name calling partisan.
Yeah, I doubt seriously that Hooksexup is trying to protect Romney.
Oh, please, do you really think Hooksexup is the source of this story? This is just an aggregator site. The story is being pushed by Politico and appears to be sourced from the National Restaurant Association, which has substantial ties to the mainstream/Bush wing of the party.
No, but it's undeniable that Hooksexup is propogating it, albeit in a very, very small way compared to other outlets.
On to more important subjects: I find progressives/liberals to be the most racist of all. Ok, now you've accused my group and I've accused yours. Where did that get us?
It's clear that the Tea Party isn't racist or it wouldn't be the primary area of support for Cain. You can spin it all you want but you're just looking silly or worse, partisan.
Apparently, Cain is the Teabagger's "black friend" that proves they aren't racists. Ha!
Does this explain the really creepy smile at the end of his campaign ad?
Wow, look at how quickly all the Koch Bros. trolls jumped on this one. Fingers pointing everywhere except for the "Cain Train".
Yes, good God, I hope the Hooksexup servers can keep up with the crush.
So now is sexual harassment wrong again?
It was wrong with Clarence Thomas, Ok with Bill Clinton, now its back to being wrong again?
Geez, its hard to keep track of the Liberal Morality crowd.
I mean, I just want to know if I can get a B.J. from a female intern and not risk a lawsuit!
Guidance?
It appears to only be wrong when it can't be proven or even credibly evaluated to have occurred. Thomas, very shaky. Cain, two anonymous accusers. Both very weak cases (at this point) and therefore unquestionably true.
Clinton, who fired an African American woman to hire Paula Jones with whom he was having sex. Anita Broderick who claimed with evidence that she was raped by Clinton. Nah, nothing here.
Yeah, because I settled out of court it's "questionable"! Hahaha!
Hooksexup clearly hates Herman Cain. Funny, though, how they promote the idea that the Tea Party specifically, and Republicans in general, are inherently racists and yet they can't stand the thought of a black conservative. But that's not racist, oh no...
because Hooksexup is super racist towards dumb people running for office.
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