[mnehring]

It was Perry’s Arizona campaign (chair or something like that, I’ve seen several posts giving different titles for her). With that said, I don’t think the Perry camp itself would do this, but the buzz among opponents was happening before it was released so someone was floating the story to Cain’s opponents.

[org.whodat]

The perry people were the ones posting all the BS about the story the first thing this morning.

[Servant of the Cross]

With that said, I don’t think the Perry camp itself would do this ...

I agree with that. At townhall.com, Guy Benson states this story had been floated for ten days and pollute_ico was waiting for a formal response from the Cain campaign: " ... a series of comments over the past 10 days, Cain and his campaign repeatedly declined to respond directly about whether he ever faced allegations of sexual harassment at the restaurant association."

It is likely to have been known by all rival campaigns that it was coming and Perry's AZ campaign chair needs more self-control. Doesn't mean they planted anything though. It does fit the Romney MO and media sources historically used by them.

[Cicero]

Thanks. It could have been Perry. Or, as others on this thread have speculated, it could have gotten out there several weeks ago and drifted around, before Politico decided to go with it.

If that’s true, then it may be difficult to know who was responsible for doing this. I suppose it could even have been several people—the ones who originally started spreading the story, perhaps beginning with the women who claim they were victimized, or it could have been one of the campaigns going to Politico with it.

I suspect there was a three week delay because there really isn’t much in it.