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When Herman Cain held the long-awaited news conference late Tuesday afternoon to tackle allegations that he sexually harassed four women, a smooth-talking Southern attorney was the first person to step to the microphone. Cain’s lawyer is L. Lin Wood, a well-known Atlanta-based trial attorney who has carved out a successful career representing the high-profile and falsely accused, often seeking eye-popping damages for those he believes have been libeled or slandered in the press. Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather once called Wood the “attorney for the damned.” When asked why he had chosen to represent Cain, Wood cited the media...

Contrary to popular media reports saying Karen Kraushaar is a Republican, she has only Donated to the DNC. http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml

Herman Cain repeated in a press conference this afternoon in Arizona that he had not sexually harassed any woman. “With respect to the most recent accusation, I have never acted inappropriately with anyone. Period,” he said. “I saw Ms. Allred and her client yesterday in that news conference for the very first time.” Cain added that he had no recollection of Sharon Bialek’s name, either. He did not directly address Bialek’s claim that she had spoken to him at the TeaCon 2011 in Chicago a few weeks ago. Today WIND radio host Amy Jacobson told media outlets she had seen...

Interesting that she’s decided to speak out now after The Daily revealed her identity. Is that because she knows she’ll be hounded anyway and figures she has nothing to lose in talking to the press? Or is she tired of Cain calling her a liar? “When you are being sexually harassed in the workplace, you are extremely vulnerable,” [Kraushaar] said. “You do whatever you can to quickly get yourself into a job someplace safe, and that is what I thought I had achieved when I left.”…She said she did not know whether or how she might tell more of her...

Herman Cain says he'd be willing to take a lie detector test to prove he's being truthful when he says he has never behaved inappropriately with anyone. But he says he won't submit to such an examination without a good reason.

Posted earlier this year before the "occupy" nonsense, it seems more relevant now...

Newt Gingrich, who has stayed out of commenting directly on the sexual harassment allegations facing Herman Cain, urged the businessman to respond to the claims against him and to make sure he’s accurate and forthcoming with the truth because he “owes the American people.” “I think when you move from anonymity to a person standing up in that setting and saying something, so now there’s a real – there’s a person. It’s not just some anonymous tip. Clearly Herman Cain has to answer the charges . He has to explain what happened. He has to do so in a way...

Howard Stern said this before Sharon Bialek fairly credibly detailed her alleged encounter with Herman Cain, so the shock jock might not be of the same opinion now. But this YouTube clip from a recent episode of Stern’s Sirius/XM radio show is fun to listen to for another reason: It starts with a soundbite of Cain himself singing a parody of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Cain’s version envisions a world without pizza. Imagine the Cain campaign with no taint of sexual harassment allegations. Remember when he impressed us with his “Impossible Dream,” when he reassured a shell-shocked audience with an improvised...

Herman Cain today said that Sharon Bialek, the first woman to publicly accuse the GOP presidential candidate of sexual harassment, is a liar and that he never acted inappropriately with her. “I have had nothing but the utmost respect for any and all women as well as those who have worked under my leadership,” Cain told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl in the ABC News/Yahoo Newsmakers interview. “I can categorically say I have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period. And as far as these latest charges… I reject all of those.” Cain said the charges are “baseless” and “bogus” and that...

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The Cain campaign just sent out this statement: As Ms. Sharon Bialek has placed herself in the public spotlight through making patently false allegations against Herman Cain, it is only fair to compare her track record alongside Mr. Cain’s.In stark contrast to Mr. Cain’s four decades spent climbing the corporate ladder rising to the level of CEO at multiple successful business enterprises, Ms. Bialek has taken a far different path.The fact is that Ms. Bialek has had a long and troubled history, from the courts to personal finances – which may help explain why she has come forward 14 years...

The iPad-only news outlet The Daily has revealed the identity of one of the women who, according to Politico, accused presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment during his tenure as CEO of the National Restaurant Association. The Daily reports that Karen Kraushaar, a communications director at the Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General, was a National Resturant Association spokesperson when, she alleges, Cain’s inappropriate behavior took place.

The Daily, the tablet newspaper, named one of the women who filed a sexual harassment claim against Republican front-runner Herman Cain while he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association. The woman, identified by the paper as Karen Kraushaar, now works as communications director at the Treasury Department's Office of the Inspector General.Cain has sought to downplay the charge — calling it frivolous — saying she overreacted to a gesture comparing her height to his wife's.But the paper spoke to friends and family members of Kraushaar who vouch for her honesty — saying she is not the type to bring false allegations.“She wouldn’t...

I’ve been out of pocket all day attending to the demands of life and work. So yeah, I missed the Left’s latest high-tech lynching. I missed the latest accusations against Herman Cain. But my good friend, Robert Stacy McCain, diligent as always, has the story: A woman has come forward (with the aid and assistance of left-wing attack attorney Gloria Allred) to accuse Cain of having committed sexual harassment against her 14 years ago, back in 1997. Cain allegedly fondled her leg and tried to kiss her while they were alone in a car, [the accuser] says. When she said...

Those who spent part of last week waiting for the other shoe to drop in the Herman Cain alleged sexual harassment story can now throw another pump onto the pile, as a fifth woman has come forward to allege possibly inappropriate behavior by the embattled GOP frontrunner. The Washington Examiner reports that Donna Donella, a then-United States Agency for International Development worker, claims Cain tried to get her to arrange a dinner with a “lovely young lady” in the audience at a speech he gave in 2002.

ABC Chicago station WLS looks into Sharon Bialek’s background (via Drudge): The public record on Bialek begins in 1991 when she filed personal bankruptcy for the first time while living in Des Plaines.Between 1993 and 1996 Bialek worked for four different companies in promotion and marketing positions. …In 1999, Bialek’s son Nicholas was born and a paternity lawsuit was filed by the father, a media executive.In 2001 came Bialek’s second personal bankruptcy, filed after sizable legal bills. That year she was hired by WGN radio where she worked until 2004 when she took a marketing job and then a job...

Speaking about the allegations made by Sharon Bialek earlier today, Herman Cain said there was not “an ounce of truth” in her statement. “I had a few of my staff members there with me,” Cain told ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel in an interview tonight, describing watching the press conference earlier in the day, “and I’m sitting here and they’re watching me and they can see steam coming out of my ears. The feelings that you have when you know that all of this is totally fabricated, you go from anger, then you get disgusted, you try to control yourself to make...

Monday’s Gloria Allred-assisted bombshell about Herman Cain is inspiring a wide range of reactions from all corners of the American political landscape. Liberals are occupying the narrow dynamic range between we-told-you-so and general Schaddenfreude. But conservatives’ positions seem decidedly mixed. This shouldn’t be so. Everything should have changed Monday for future Republican primary voters, even for die-hard riders of the Cain Train. What was previously a smattering of anonymous sexual harassment accusations has now become a very specific allegation of sexual assault. And what had suggested a tenuous analogy to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas now evokes a firm President...

Herman Cain sought to ride out the sexual harassment scandal engulfing his embattled presidential campaign by projecting a business-as-usual façade. But there were growing signs of unease in conservative circles as a fourth accuser — Sharon Bialek — provided a name and a face to what had been anonymous harassment allegations against the GOP front-runner. Bialek's detailed and lurid accusations — that Cain groped her in a car after she asked for his help finding a job — spun his already embattled campaign into an uncertain new territory. "He deserves a fair chance. But that doesn't mean he gets a...

The emerging portrait of Herman Cain's most recent accuser shows a suburban homemaker with a history of financial and legal troubles, but one who supporters say has the guts to do the right thing. (snip) Born and raised in Chicago, Bialek graduated from Carl Schurz High School on the Northwest Side and briefly attended Northeastern Illinois University before enrolling at Arizona State University. She graduated from ASU in 1983 with a communications degree, a school spokesman said. Records show she twice has filed for personal bankruptcy, first in 1991 and then again in 2001. In the latter case, she claimed...