Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership. Resume Subscription We are delighted that you'd like to resume your subscription. Please click confirm to resume now. Sponsored Offers. Most Popular News. Read More. It's ridiculous. And I think it's very unfair to him. And unless there's something that we're not seeing — meaning you, I, and everybody else —I think it's a very unfair situation.
Cain campaign staffer Mark Block had made a public allusion to a radio talk show host in Iowa complaining about Cain's behavior but had not named the host. After two days of talking to reporters, Cain avoided them on Wednesday, perhaps taking the advice of a newly hired crisis management team. Cain campaign spokesman J. Gordon today dismissed reports of a third accuser as part of an attempt to smear the candidate.
Cain has said over the past two days at public events that we could see other baseless allegations made against him as this appalling smear campaign continues," said Gordon. Cain deserves better. The new tack also involved trying to shift attention to who might have leaked the story to the media, with accusations from Cain and his chief of staff that the story was planted by the campaign of Texas governor Rick Perry.
The candidate told a Tea Party town hall meeting, via phone, that the Perry campaign was behind the original Politico story about the harassment charges. Senate bid, about a settlement of harassment charges from his time at NRA. Bennett indicated that he would do so tomorrow, after he met with his client," Sue Hensley, the NRA's senior vice president of public affairs communications, said in the statement.
So far, there is no word from the NRA on whether it will drop the confidentiality agreement. It's not clear if the second woman has a lawyer, or if she has requested to be allowed to speak on the matter. Cain, for his part, said Tuesday he isn't sure whether he'll ask the NRA to release a woman.
Cain Wednesday morning delivered a speech at the Northern Virginia Technology Council in which he referenced forces out to "destroy" him personally, as well as politically. He maintained that his campaign will survive with the support of the public. Later, Cain spoke at a closed-door event with physicians in Virginia, where he got testy with reporters who pressed him on the matter as he left the event, and delivered a speech on Capitol Hill to the Congressional Health Caucus.
It's unclear how the developing story will impact Cain's frontrunner status in the race for the GOP nomination. One former Cain staffer told CBS News, "He is very flirtatious with women whether it be a waitress or a staffer he just met.
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