And I do not buy it.
UPDATE 4:50 11/3/11: A number of sources are already reporting that the Campaign manager for Herman Cain has accepted the explanation of Curt Anderson. Good job dialing back quickly guys.
e.g., http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/11/herman-cain-sexual-harassment-rick-perry-/1?csp=34news
In an interview
with Forbes, Herman Cain states in clear terms he believes former aide Curt
Anderson is the source of the harassment scandal leak to Politico on Sunday
evening. In support of this, Mr. Cain identifies
a private conversation he had with Anderson in preparation for 2004 Senate
run. The following factors weigh in
favor of Curt Anderson being the source.
He probably knew something about the scandals and he switched sides
during the Presidential race.
There are a few items
that suggest it was not actually Curt Anderson
1. Curt Anderson denies the conversation took place. This denial should generally be ignored due
to its self serving nature, but if he were lying there are so many better lies to
concoct, than simply “I never knew.”
2. According to Politico
they saw documentation describing the allegations and showing their resolution.
This would have had to come from someone
in possession of the documents.
3. According to Herman Cain in
the Forbes article “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.”
All of this makes sense if there was an opposition briefing
that Anderson forgot, and the real source was someone else, a National
Restaurant Association insider.
Leads from the Romney camp?
Anyone have reasonable leads somewhere else?
The plot thickens some more. Thoughts? "PICKET: Source - Rahm Emanuel involved in Cain sexual harassment accuser attacks"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/nov/2/picket-source-rham-emanuel-involved-cain-sexual-ha/
"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."
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None-the-less, I am growing weary of the unnamed sources.
In other news, this afternoon, the accuser who had taken the severance, decided to NOT try to be released from the agreement due to publicity fears.
The third accuser who just happened to not file a complaint against Cain at the time of her 'harassment,' wants to remain anonymous, too, due to publicity fears.
Also, I find it worth noodling over that during the time these sources report Cain made inappropriate gestures, he was being very outspoken against Clinton and his health reform plan (which later became Romneycare and Obamacare). Cain was predicting that countless restaurant employees would be laid off if Clinton's plan as implemented.
Doing a search on the internet for that time frame, though I found tons of other articles regarding Cain and the aforementioned statements, I found no mentions of any harassment even though he was head of the NRA; not on any blogs, news posts, nothing.
I find it odd. Just sayin'.