Posted on 11/03/2011 10:04:50 AM PDT by bbernard
Adding to the ongoing Herman Cain sexual harassment controversy, two sources have now confirmed to PJ Media that a female employee of the National Restaurant Association told associates she had been brought by Mr. Cain to his Crystal City, Virginia residence where she alleged “he had taken advantage of me.”
One source, a male, told PJ Media:
Herman took advantage of seniority and power with a young woman. It was an abuse of power.
Implying that coming forward with the accusations was an ordeal for the young woman, the source also said:
Who do you believe, a CEO or a mid-level staffer? It was unsettling for her to make charges.
The name of the woman — who was in her early twenties at the time of the alleged incident — has been confirmed by PJ Media. We have chosen not to reveal her identity for reasons of discretion.
Both sources, one male and one female, worked at the time — mid-1990s — for the governmental affairs department of the National Restaurant Association, as did the woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Looks like Cain is up on Hannity now for the entire hour...might be good to kisten for those interested...I fear he will dig himself deeper....
So here he is!
I am ambivalent about him at this point. He continues to expose himself as a political neophyte who probably should not be entrusted with the reins of national security. I would prefer someone with at least some military experience (Perry) or some significant knowledge of foreign policy and world history (Gingrich).
We are entering into some very dangerous times and I really want someone at the helm who understands the intricacies of foreign intrigue and geo-political strategy.
Now is not the time for on the job training. Cain will make an excellent VP nominee. I don't think he's ready to head the ticket.
Please, what exactly are these serious allegations? A gesture made her uncomfortable? That's serious enough to keep him from an election? Those are some high towers you've set up for folks. I'm sooo unworthly of even being on the internet with such goodness.
LOL ! I’ve read all the stories and allegations, and using my background and personal experience, have came up with a non-nefarious situation that explains it pretty well as far as I’m concerned.
What’s your explanation? Wait, let me guess. Everybody is lying about poor Herb Cain. Let’s send him money.
“I too have a family member who was a rape victim”
This incident occured in the mid-90’s. Herman Cain remained at the NRA till 2002.
If there was any hint of rape of any kind in the complaint, do you think he would have remained at the NRA for 7 more years? No way. At the very least, he would have been asked to quietly step down (”I’m stepping down to spend more time with my family, etc...”)
If there was any hint of rape in the complaint, do you think it would have been settled for a mere $35,000? No way. You’d be looking a six figures, maybe more.
Nothing in this story suggest rape. Bad behavior? Maybe. Rape? No way.
CAin's on Hannity now and still feeding the animals...this isn't playing out well for how he's handling this...sad really...he'd be better off to walk away from disgusing this.
Cain is saying the pay off was a “severance” agreement.
Also blamed another campaign. Mentioned Anderson.
Interesting mistype.
That should be a new word.
When you are discussing something disgusting, then you are "disgusing".
Wow. We are on exactly the same page.
Aaaah, poor widdle thing. Her parents must have been so proud of their little princess who got drunk at a company function. That's probably why their lawyer was called in to save her reputation. So young? Excuse me, but we have women younger than her putting their lives on the line in war zones. We all know you're a Perrybot so that little ploy isn't going to get any play.
Then I feel sorry for you for not being able to see that he is not qualified to handle the job.
He has to take back half of what he says because he doesn’t know when to stop digging.
“this lady had SOMETHING that happened to her 12 or so years ago, and I guarantee you she is afraid of what will happen to her”
Feel free to go after people for calling your daughter a wimp, and after posters who are jumping to conclusions for that matter. But it disturbs me that you can’t say anything more than “something” happened, yet here we are, talking about Rape, Rape, Rape. That’s wrong.
Trumping nothing up into inappropriate behavior is one thing, trumping inappropriateness into harassment another. All of them are somewhat understandable. Trumping inappropriateness or harassment into rape is inexcusable. Not that that’s what you’re doing. But you are doing reporter’s jobs for them by allowing the story to make you think about rape, when in fact it doesn’t imply it, let alone charge it.
Sexual harassment is not rape. But whenever anyone brings it up, rape is in the back of our minds, unjustly, in my opinion. Your aim is for real victims of real outrages to come out of the shadows; others aims are for false accusations not to be so casually made and easily accepted. Both aims are valid. I suggest furthering them by divorcing the issue of rape from that of harassment. Because they aren’t the same thing, or very similar, even though one probably does often precede the other.
It’s enough to talk about inappropriateness, infidelity, and harassment, because that’s all we’re given to talk about, given the evidence (if you can call it evidence). Where does rape enter?
“he trashes the victims without even knowing the actual events. He SO wants to protect Cain that he trashes the very people who were hurt to begin with”
How do you know they were victims? How do you know anyone was hurt? Sounds like you’re jumping to as many conclusions of Hannity.
I think we need to wait until we kinow more, but this is starting to stink to high heavens.
of Hannity = as Hannity
I am a, presently unemployed, rocket engineer. That said we have no end of what the standards are and I am aware what is required and not required with respect to this. The PJ Media has changed the story several times already becasue they evidently were informed that they could have the pants sued off of them if they didn’t set it straight. They went with the most sensational, and damaging words they could until they were forced to back off. This should tell you something of the integrity of the garbage put out in the first place.
Ravenstar
I just got back to my desk after a few hours out. Wanted to thank you for pinging me about this. These are significant changes in the story.
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