Herman Cain’s top aide accused Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign of being behind the recent stories about “harassment” allegations against Cain from the 1990s that have rocked the former pizza company executive’s presidential campaign.
“This is one of the actions in America that is the reason why people don’t get involved in politics,” Mark Block, Cain’s campaign chief of staff, said in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ “Special Report.” “The actions of the Perry campaign are despicable.”
“Rick Perry and his campaign owe Herman Cain and his family an apology,” Block added.
Cain has been grappling with the allegations since Politico first reported Sunday night that at least two women who worked for the National Restaurant Association when Cain was its head had received financial settlements after they complained about his behavior.
The Cain campaign suggests the source for that story was longtime GOP consultant Curt Anderson, who worked for Cain’s failed 2004 U.S. Senate bid and had been debriefed on the harassment allegations by Cain himself. Anderson now works for Perry.
And Chris Wilson, a former pollster for the restaurant association, said Wednesday he witnessed Cain’s alleged inappropriate behavior. He’s now involved with a pro-Perry super political action committee.
But both men deny leaking the story.
“No one at our campaign was involved in this story in any way,” Perry campaign spokesman Ray Sullivan said in a written statement. “Any claim to the contrary is patently false. The first we learned of it was when we read the story in Politico.”
But Cain’s team isn’t buying it. Block said not only does the Perry campaign owe Cain an apology, but so does Politico.
“Politico won’t release any documentation or even admit they spoke to these two women,” he said. “Why? Because they have nothing and cited unnamed sources.”
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Had it been a democrat this wouldnt even be talked about by the mainstream media. Now that its a CONSERVATIVE BLACK REPUBLICAN, its the number one story. Where was the press when it came to vetting Obama? How come the mainstream media didnt go after him on his associations with the unrepentant terrorists or his association with Rev Wrong and the Smurch of Hate??
RIP: Mainstream media died in 2008!
From what has been leaked, he’s accused of flirting and perhaps being vulgar. If the accusers are over refined suburban princesses shocked at inner city banter, the whole thing falls apart. President Clinton set the standard from what is expected to be revealed in such scandals, so we are waiting for some facts to replace politically motivated rumors.
I think Herman Cain has to take a page out of both Clinton’s and Obama’s books, and just ride it out, and don’t let it get to him. That’s exactly what Clinton did in regard to his MANY accusations of worse things, like Jennifer Flowers, etc. And obama with 20 years in the “smurch” of Rev. Wright, also just kept going. Of course, the media dropped it immediately, because it was obama. But still, Cain has just got to keep going, and ignore this. (If he can!)