Monday, November 28, 2011
Politics Metro Atlanta woman claims affair with Herman Cain
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:55 PM
- Joeff Davis
- Herman Cain during his November 12 address to the Young Republican National Federation at the Westin Peachtree Plaza.
GOP presidential nominee Herman Cain probably hoped people would be chatting about his campaign's new five-minute video about the "9-9-9 Plan," an overhaul of the country's tax code that could, if implemented at the precise moment when Saturn and Jupiter are aligned, make America Great Again™.
Instead, he's responding to a report by Fox5's Dale Russell airing tonight at 6 p.m. in which a metro Atlanta businesswoman claims she and Cain, who's married, carried on a 13-year affair. (Which one do you think generates more headlines?)
Cain attempted to get in front of the story on CNN and tell Wolf Blitzer that the businesswoman, Ginger White, is an "acquaintance" and he "thought she was a friend." Cain's attorney, Lin Wood, issued a statement to Russell, which reads in part:
This is not an accusation of harassment in the workplace — this is not an accusation of an assault - which are subject matters of legitimate inquiry to a political candidate.Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults - a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public's right to know and the media's right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one's bedroom door.
Russell says "Cain denies an affair, but not a relationship."
UPDATE, 6:42 p.m. Here's Russell's full report. No video's available yet. White says she first met Cain while the former pizza mogul led the National Restaurant Association. According to her, the two ended their physical relationship just before Cain announced his candidacy nearly eight months ago. She provided the station with cell phone records. Russell texted a number she said belonged to Cain and he called back. The candidate told Russell that White had his number because he was "trying to help her financially." Russell also dug into White's background. It's worth a read.
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