Herman Cain told Fox News today that “if the Restaurant Association did a settlement [related to the sexual harassment allegations], I wasn’t even aware of it.”
Now, according to the Washington’s Examiner’s Byron York, he told Greta Van Susteren, in an interview slated for tonight, that “My general counsel said this started out where she and her lawyer were demanding a huge financial settlement…I don’t remember a number…But then he said because there was no basis for this, we ended up settling for what would have been a termination settlement.”
Cain added that he thought the settlement might have been “three months’ salary.”
“I don’t remember,” he said. “It might have been two months. I do remember my general counsel saying we didn’t pay all of the money they demanded.”
The Cain campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I'm sorry, is he actually saying that he now remembers it or did he get in touch with his former general counsel and is relaying what was told to him?
It's not clear from the quotes.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's Clarence Thomas all over again. A high-tech lynching for Herman Cain, because he opened his eyes and recognized that the Democrat Party is racist and wicked and wants to exterminate black people. Why do liberals love to lie so much? Why do they hate black people so much, and hold them in such contempt? It baffles me.
Cain's accusers should be arrested and tried for slander. Politico's reporters and editorial staff should also be arrested. Regardless of how this affects the campaign, it is a vile lie against a God-fearing man.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Why do liberals love to lie so much? Why do they hate black people so much, and hold them in such contempt?"
The Democrat Party has always been the party of the plantation and liberalism has always been the paternalistic philosophy. Democrats believe blacks ought to do as they are told while liberals believe they can run the lives of African Americans better than they can themselves. It's a match made in hell.
The real question is why any constituency viewed so cynically would remain part of such a party.
Of course, I have to ask the same question of conservatives regarding the Republican Party these days.....
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGood points, Teflon. I'm getting to the point where I think Congress should enact legislation banning the Democrat Party, like was done with the CPUSA in the early Cold War. An organization as malicious and dangerous as the DP is simply too dangerous to be allowed to operate.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow is this Cain "changing his story?"
Is he not allowed to follow up with somebody who would know and ask?
He clearly doesn't remember much about it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSo...is his company guilty of settling an unfounded allegation to make a couple of whiners go away?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNow that's serious... not.
And how would you have ANY way to know if the allegation was "unfounded"?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI believe that:
"There were also descriptions of physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that made women who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable."
is not sexual harassment.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt doesn't matter. He's a neo-con, FED-supporting, warmongering puke who has flip-flopped on his position on abortion and other important issues. He gets a no vote...a FAIL.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow do you forget details like this ?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow many of us are accused of sexual harassment in the workplace ?
Twice or perhaps even three times , if Cain's aide's statement
in the Politico story is true.
Or Cain's story to the aide is true.
The aide told Politico that Cain warned him a sexual harassment story
might surface , but, he had beaten it and
the accuser had to pay his legal fees.
Which makes it different from the settlement the two women received.
Cain's recollection that he merely told one woman she
was the same height as his wife and that started
the harassment cascade is ridiculous.
Cain was director of the board of the NRA.
If defies credulity to think that Cain
would have been unaware of the settlement.
Many of us have been accused of sexual harassment in the workplace. I managed to be accused twice before I was old enough to buy alcohol.
And guess what? I don't remember a lot of the details off the top of my head. Until today, I even had forgotten that I was accused twice. I don't remember the names of most of the people involved. I couldn't tell you if I signed anything or not.
Know why? The complaints were trivial and ridiculous. In the end, they had no effect on my job. 14 years later, they're an odd little story to laugh over with my husband.
It happens. It happens probably every day and it probably happened more frequently back in the late 90s when sexual harassment was all over the media.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseStick a fork in poor Herman, he's dead politically. Another amateur found wanting. For all his weaknesses it's become apparent that only Romney has a chance at winning.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGod save us in Romney is the best we have to go up against the neo-commie mafia.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf Romney is our only choice, then the battle is already lost.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAh yes, any excuse to back what you already wanted to believe.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWho cares?
No one is changing their mind on Cain over this.
Supporters of other candidates are going to proclaim him dead, thinking people on the fence will see that there's nothing to this, and Cain supporters will remain loyal.
It's nothing.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseas soon as I heard his statement about "not being aware" of it, I crossed my fingers and hoped he would not have to walk that back like Eric Holder because some memo or another with his acknowledgement of receipt popped up.
well, guess what. He's walked it back.
I hope this petty little thing does not end his candidacy, that woud be a shame.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaybe he never did anything, but it doesn't matter anymore. He said he couldn't remember, and now he has contradicted himself. Piece by piece, Cain is going to be picked apart. Fair or not, he's done.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHeck. I can't remember with any accuracy any details from my bad days back in 1996, why should he? It may be as much a testament to the insignificance of the incident as to anything. Why does the left employ this assassination tactic so much? because it works on the right .... suckers .... stand tall for your guy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou do not forget stuff like this. Cain got caught in a lie. Amateur hour.
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