Posted on 10/30/2011 9:33:58 PM PDT by Fred
You have to read pretty far down into the Politico story before you find that response from Herman Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon, and the article sticks all the exculpatory material at the end:
Ron Magruder, Denise Marie Fugo and Joseph Fassler, the chair, vice chair and immediate past chairman of the National Restaurant Association board of directors at the time of Cain’s departure, said they hadn’t heard about any complaints regarding Cain making unwanted advances. “I have never heard that. It would be news to me,” said Fugo, who runs a Cleveland, Ohio, catering company, adding such behavior would be totally out of character for the Cain she knew. “He’s very
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Mr. Cain should come out and say, “For 43 years I have only had eyes for my Gloria...” and tell a story of his courting her. Then “Epic Fail” will once again describe Politico and Geraldo.
A non denial from Cain's spokesman to the payment to the two ladies in question from Geraldo
LBJ was one of the worst people ever to set foot on the planet.
There are bodies all over TX of people who dared to go against him.
I believe he was involved in the death of JFK. He wanted to be president so bad he could taste it. He knew he had no prayer with JFK alive.
I hope Herman is ready for the onslaught of negative reports. I believe the latest came from the Perry Camp. The DEMS will, but don't need to right now.
By which I mean Perry or Mittens.
Destroying Herman helps both, and right now --- mostly LaRaza Ricky.
'sexual harassment' can be anything from a guy saying Good Morning to a lesbo. Or opening a door for a feminazi.
Who needs Herman Cain to go away?
Romney does.
Ping.
Ron Magruder, Denise Marie Fugo and Joseph Fassler, the chair, vice chair and immediate past chairman of the National Restaurant Association board of directors at the time of Cain’s departure, said they hadn’t heard about any complaints regarding Cain making unwanted advances.We know nothing about the accusers and the specifics of the accusations from a dozen years ago are reported rather vaguely by Politico: “episodes that left the women upset and offended” and “physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that made women who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable and that they regarded as improper in a professional relationship.”
“I have never heard that. It would be news to me,” said Fugo, who runs a Cleveland, Ohio, catering company, adding such behavior would be totally out of character for the Cain she knew. “He’s very gracious.”
Fassler, who helped bring Cain on board as CEO of the restaurant association, said that any inappropriate behavior was not brought to his attention and that he would be upset to learn it had gone on and he was not made aware of it. “That’s a shock to me,” Fassler said. “As an officer during all of Herman’s years there as a paid executive… none of that stuff ever surfaced to me. Nobody ever called me, complained about this, nor did I ever hear that from Peter Kilgore, nor did I ever hear that from Herman Cain.”
Fassler — who ran a Phoenix food-service company and finished his term as chairman the month before Cain’s June 1999 departure but remained on the board’s executive committee — described Cain as treating men and women identically and asserted it was “not within his character” to make unwanted advances. “It’s not what I know of him,” Fassler said.
Much like Fassler, almost all board members remember Cain fondly and say he left on good terms.
Cain was “extremely professional” and “fair” to female staffers at the restaurant association, recalled Lee Ellen Hayes, who said she “worked fairly closely with” Cain in the late 1990s, when she was an executive at the National Restaurant Association Education Fund, a Chicago-based offshoot of the group.
Cain’s treatment of women was “the same as his treatment of men. Herman treated everyone great,” said Mary Ann Cricchio, who was elected to the board of the restaurant group in 1998. She said Cain left such a good impression on the organization that when he spoke at a group event in January of this year, as he was considering a presidential bid, “he had unanimous support in the room.”
The only reason this kind of smear happens is to get people to abandon their candidate.
Just stick with him and that will be the payback to the turds who started this.
Which one? I can think of three in the twentieth century alone. Four if you count the one who kept his womanizing in his heart because he was too incompetent to actually do it.
Many years ago, my Late Husband was accused of sexual harassment because he complimented a co-worker on her appearance.
Rather than endure a lawsuit, the company he worked for removed him from a very lucrative residency (computer specialist in a huge law firm) and demoted him back to schlepping his tools from one building to another fixing hardware. He submitted to this because he was made to feel so ashamed of his “infraction” and was glad he wasn’t fired completely.
I hate “Feminism”. And I am a self-employed, self-reliant Biker Woman.
I find it interesting that the racist left continues to attempt to smear conservative black men with this kind of allegation.
There’s this thread from earlier. Hmmmm. Seems like I remember news a couple of weeks ago that Perry was ‘going after’ Cain ‘big time’. Wish I could find the link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2796874/posts
What pisses me off more than anything about something like this is those slamming Cain, without evidence, are the same ones who said “It’s all about sex” when Clinton was using a cigar on a 19 year old.
If I was Cain I’d say “When you tell me the names of the women making these claims, I’ll respond. Otherwise, go get a statement from Clinton.”
We were warned a couple of times (I pinged one time in a HC Ping Email to supporters)
Thanks! Cain is supposed to speak in a few minutes.
An interesting take on all this - especially some of the updates:
Thanks. Saw that link earlier. Gawd, I hate Whorealdo. Ugh!
And the unexpected thing is that they were all Democrats.
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