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Title: Perry Camp Denies Leaking Cain Harassment Story, Fingers Romney Campaign
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URL Source: http://nationaljournal.com/2012-pre ... ngers-romney-campaign-20111102
Published: Nov 2, 2011
Author: Rebecca Kaplan
Post Date: 2011-11-02 19:58:50 by Skip Intro
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Views: 6586
Comments: 12
A spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign is adamantly denying that members of the GOP presidential candidate's staff leaked a story has swamped Herman Cain's campaign this week. Instead, the Perry camp is pointing a finger at the campaign of another rival Republican, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, as a possible source of the report about the sexual-harassment charges levelled a decade ago against Cain by female subordinates at the National Restaurant Association. In an interview with Forbes, Cain suggested that the source of the story, first reported by Politico, was Curt Anderson, a consultant who now works for Perry. “That is false, patently untrue; no one at this campaign was involved in this story, and the first we knew about it was when we read Politico,” Perry’s communications director Ray Sullivan told National Journal and CBS News. Sullivan also suggested it may in fact be Romney’s campaign that was behind the story. “There are blog postings around as well ... discussing that Cain's successor at the restaurant association is a big Romney donor and some of the board members,” Sullivan said. “There are much closer connections between the restaurant association, Cain, and the Romney camp than there are with us.” He added: “I wouldn’t put it past them.” Federal Election Commission records show that Steven C. Anderson, who succeeded Cain as CEO of the National Restaurant Association, gave $1,000 to Romney’s campaign on July 14. He also gave the same amount of money to Cain in two $500 installments during his 2003-04 Senate campaign. What's Team Romney's response to Sullivan's charge? "Not true," said Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for the former governor. In the Forbes interview, Cain explained his reasons for suspecting Anderson: He said he briefed the political consultant on the charges that had been levelled against him during an unsuccessful 2004 Senate bid. Anderson was working for Cain at the time. He recently signed on with Perry. Sullivan denied any connection between Perry staff and the leak, noting that Anderson had denied being the source of the story about Cain's accusers. Responding to a separate report suggesting a possible link between the Perry camp and the Politico story, Sullivan said that Chris Wilson, an Oklahoma-based political consultant who on Wednesday said that he witnessed Cain behaving inappropriately toward women, is not affiliated with the Perry campaign in any formal or informal way. Wilson works for a pro-Perry political action committee, but federal election law requires such groups to remain independent of the candidates they support.
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#1. To: Skip Intro, war, lucysmom, murron, fred mertz, godwinson, brian s, jwpegler (#0)
Anyone out of popcorn yet?
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The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street...
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
It's getting almost as bad as the Clinton's versus Obama in 2008. Politics is a competitive career SPORT. Politics is not the answer to our problems. Lesson learned...
I'll have to go look but I think I'm good to go.
This is starting to look like a game of tag and it looks like Romney is now "it."
When you have Rove attacking Herman Cain. You know Herman is the good guy.
Chuckles...you just can't stay out of your own way, can you?
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
You couldn't be more wrong here. The only winner here is in fact Romney. He's just sitting back watching the other campaigns damage themselves. the simple fact is only two campaigns could have possibly benefitted from this 'leak'. Bachmann's, or Perry's. Romney gains nothing from it initially, but is gaining from the aftershock in a big way.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Your point is that Romney is the second choice of noone in the GOP. Sounds like a winning candidate for next November. Or, "B", it could be that, as usual, your analysis, while both shallow and pedantic, is "C"...WRONG. Romney benefits immediately from this in any number of ways not the least of which is that he's not the one being depicted as desperately flinging poo. He also benefits from the fact that he didn't deliver that bizarre speech in New Hampshire last weekend. Perry did. One news cycle...one "kill" shot on his two most "viable" opponents. But Romney doesn't "initially" benefit. /twit
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
The elusive Stone. Amazing how he is too busy patching roofs to answer a simple question his interrogatory begged from me, but he has time to keep doing other things in forum.
Did I say anything about who is gaining from this? I was just commenting about how they are trying to pass the blame. Its kind of amusing..
Yep, and you were demonstrably wrong. Its okay, it happens...
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
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#3. To: go65 (#1)
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Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel...
#4. To: go65 (#1)
Anyone out of popcorn yet?
#5. To: Skip Intro (#0)
#6. To: NewsJunky (#5)
#7. To: jwpegler (#3)
It's getting almost as bad as the Clinton's versus Obama in 2008.
#8. To: NewsJunky (#5)
This is starting to look like a game of tag and it looks like Romney is now "it."
#9. To: Badeye (#8)
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#12. To: NewsJunky (#11)
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