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Old 10-31-2011, 08:46 PM   #1
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What a day today was with the Cain sexual harrassment story and Perry's NH speech!!!

I sear, Perry was either drunk, high or in a manic phase due to too much halloween candy! Yikes!

You know, I get so tired of the hypocritical nature of GOP candidates or elected politicians. All the preaching about Christian values and the the real stories come out.

The other thing on my mind about this is that it seems like when a Democrat gets caught in one of these scandals, it is about consensual actions. Sexual harrassment is not consensual and is a crime and abusive.

The other thing is that I wish that women (or it could be a man) that has beenj sexually harrassed would not take pay-offs. This always brings up talk of that was they were after and sexual harrassment never gets the attention it deserves as a very common crime commited.

I know that many women in this situation are trying to deal with this under the age old "boys club," but damn if i don't wish they would go on to make charges. Then there are all of the fears of losing one's job and thinking about how many single parents there are that need their job in order to support their kids, I get why this happens so often.Then there is all of the blaming the victim that goes on.

I don't ever want any person unfairly charged with sexual harrassment, but I don't know we can ever fight it effectively if back room settlements are made.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,7925369.story

By Tom Hamburger and Robin Abcarian

Herman Cain's accusers may band together at news conference

November 8, 2011, 8:43 p.m.

The women whose complaints Herman Cain attacked in a news conference Tuesday are planning to counter with a news conference of their own, attorneys for the women said Tuesday night.

"My client has decided to hold a joint news conference with as many of the women who complained of sexual harassment by Herman Cain as will participate," said Joel P. Bennett, the Washington lawyer for Karen Kraushaar, whose harassment claims against Cain got the current controversy rolling after a report of it appeared last week in Politico.

On Tuesday afternoon, Cain called a news conference in Arizona to address several additional allegations of sexual harassment that have surfaced since the initial article appeared. The allegations have immediately pulled the spotlight away from nearly all other topics in the Republican presidential contest.

At the outset of the news conference Tuesday, Cain focused his ire on claims from Sharon Bialek, the Chicago woman who says she was groped by Cain when she met with him in 1997 to ask for help finding a job.

He said when he watched her news conference Monday, he did not even recognize her, and that her account of inappropriate sexual conduct "simply didn't happen."

At one point Cain called the Chicagoan a "troubled woman," claiming that her allegations were put forward by the "Democrat machine."

Kraushaar, 55, sought anonymity at first and her name was not revealed by Politico or in other initial press reports. But she confirmed to several news organizations Tuesday that she was behind the first known sexual harassment complaint. She works as a communications director in a Treasury Department inspector general's office.

She left her job at the National Restaurant Assn. in 1999 after she complained of harassment by Cain, who was the association's chief executive from 1996 to 1999. At the time, she received a $45,000 settlement from the restaurant group, which agreed to pay the
claim without acknowledging its validity. That period of Cain's biography, when he lived part of each week in Washington without his wife and family, is likely to come under more intense scrutiny.

"We will advise all media in advance of the date, time and location of the conference," Bennett said in the email to The Times, noting that he had already been in contact with Bialek's attorney, Gloria Allred, to discuss the news conference.

Allred confirmed that in an email to The Times: "I said I would recommend it to my client, and I think she would want to participate, but I have no details yet and have not had a chance to discuss it with her," Allred wrote.
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This reminds me of Clarence Thomas, another Republican Conservative, Anita Hill, and sexual harassment.

I watched those hearings. I believed Anita Hill.

We all know how well that turned out.

Poll presented on AM news yesterday stated the majority of Republicans consider sexual harassment (specifically when asked about Cain) a non-issue:

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Republicans say sexual harassment charges against Cain don’t matter

"A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll of Republican voters scheduled to be released later today is expected to report that the sexual harassment charges against Cain have NOT diminished his support nor raised any real concern among the majority of Republicans. Only 13% of Republicans surveyed said they are a "great deal" or "quite a bit" concerned about voting for Cain because of the sexual harassment charges."

Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news...of-republicans
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This reminds me of Clarence Thomas, another Republican Conservative, Anita Hill, and sexual harassment.

I watched those hearings. I believed Anita Hill.

We all know how well that turned out.

Poll presented on AM news yesterday stated the majority of Republicans consider sexual harassment (specifically when asked about Cain) a non-issue:

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Republicans say sexual harassment charges against Cain don’t matter

"A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll of Republican voters scheduled to be released later today is expected to report that the sexual harassment charges against Cain have NOT diminished his support nor raised any real concern among the majority of Republicans. Only 13% of Republicans surveyed said they are a "great deal" or "quite a bit" concerned about voting for Cain because of the sexual harassment charges."

Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news...of-republicans
Yes and the GOP/TP just chalk it up as not a big deal- they don't believe sexual harrassment even exists!! And women that cry foul just want money.

We have NOT come a long way, baby!!
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Since coming to power last fall, many Tea Party-GOP dominated state legislatures have installed new laws requiring a photo ID to vote. The above graphic tells us exactly why.
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actually I'm not to upset by photo ID AS LONG AS it's free, transportation to and from DMV provided for those who need it and there are ways folks who do not have birth certificates and proof of residence (like homeless folks or folks living in detox centers or group homes, etc) can get a photo ID...

I'm more stunned by Newt.......WTF??????? I wish Cain had stayed in and gotten the nomination........laughing.....can you just see him and Obama in a debate.......Bachman would be just as good....Newt might stand up well against Obama in a debate....

I still say if the Republicans were actually serious about winning the White House they would nominate Jon Huntsman (instead of the clowns Newt with his book sales and Mitty with his magic underwear). Many many independents who voted Obama would vote Huntsman....a moderate kind of Republican..........his stance on abortions sucks big time so he would never get my vote....he supports a right to life amendment and would make 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions illegal.
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