A third woman accuses Cain of sexual harassment:
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-t...205655781.html
Meanwhile, Cain, in an apparent attempt to deflect attention from himself, accuses Slick Rick of spreading the rumors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/us...-campaign.html
My guess is that both stories are true.
Meanwhile, Perry points the finger at Romney. (See original AP story.) No honor among thieves is there?
The AP also buries the real lead. There is apparent confirmation from a third party witness that Cain made inappropriate remakes to female employees from a another male employee!
But Chris Wilson, a pollster who did work for the restaurant association during Cain's tenure, said in an interview that he witnessed the businessman making inappropriate comments and gestures toward a young woman who worked for the group during a dinner at a hotel in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington in the late 1990s. Wilson declined to discuss more specifics without the woman's permission.
Cain's behavior with women was well known, Wilson said.
"People knew about it. I'm surprised that it hasn't come up before," said Wilson, whose firm, Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research, does polling for a political action committee backing Perry. Wilson said he has not been the source of information on the accusations against Cain.
Meanwhile, as any idiot would expect, the pressure mounts from all quarters for Cain to allow everyone to speak and let the chips fall where they may:
The pressure on Cain only increased when a pillar of the GOP establishment suggested Wednesday that the Georgia businessman should ask the association to waive the confidentiality agreements.
"What are the facts?" asked Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on MSNBC. "If you have a confidentiality agreement that keeps the public from finding out something that the public is interested in knowing the facts, you ought to go on and get the facts out."
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-t...205655781.html
The NYTimes elaborates:
“If she comes out and talks about it, like I said, it’ll probably be the end of his campaign,” Mr. Wilson said in an earlier radio interview on KTOK in Oklahoma, where he lives. “It was only a matter of time, because so many people were aware of what took place, so many people were aware of her situation — the fact she left. Everybody knew, with the campaign, that this would eventually come up.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/us...-campaign.html
Last I heard, Herman was still claiming he wanted to "talk to his lawyer" before he knew what he wanted to say about the request to remove the gag order.
This all just screams "Not ready for prime time." It's a shame that the Republicans wouldn't let this alone until the general election.