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Title: Gloria Cain speaks out about sexual harassment allegations
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Washington Post
URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs ... 011/11/13/gIQAP16yIN_blog.html
Published: Nov 13, 2011
Author: Nia-Malika Henderson
Post Date: 2011-11-13 19:01:18 by A K A Stone
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In her first televised interview ever, Gloria Cain, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, sat down with her husband and said that the allegations of sexual harassment against her him don’t square with the man she knows. In this May 21, 2011 photo, Gloria Cain, left, accompanies her husband Herman Cain as he announces his run for Republican candidate for president in Atlanta. (David Goldman - AP) “You hear the graphic allegations and we know that would have been something that’s totally disrespectful of her as a woman,” she said, according to partial transcripts of an interview with Greta Van Susteren that will air on Fox News Monday night. “And I know the type of person he is. He totally respects women.” Cain, who has been married for 43 years to the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza has been silent for much of her husband’s race for the White House. Her last public appearance came in May when her husband announced his candidacy. “I’m thinking he would have to have a split personality to do the things that were said,” Cain said. Over the last two weeks, as the Republican frontrunner has battled allegations that he sexually harassed four women, Herman Cain has often mentioned his wife, saying that she is “200 percent” supportive of him and “200 percent” still his wife. In acknowledging that one woman reached a settlement agreement with the National Restaurant Association, where he served as president in the 1990s, Cain said he mentioned to one of his accusers that she was about the same height as his wife, a comment that made it into the sexual harassment complaint. Cain’s wife, who is said by friends to be a quiet woman, and who is a registered Democrat according to her husband, has steered clear of the spotlight and has not assumed the traditional role of candidate’s wife. Cain has said that his wife has been outraged by the claims against her husband. When Gloria Cain watched accuser Sharon Bialek’s news conference last Monday, she told her husband that the man that Bialek described sounded nothing like the man she she’s known for 45 years. “The things that that woman described, she said, that doesn’t even sound like you, and I’ve known you for 45 years,” Cain recalled his wife saying to him after she watched the press conference from Atlanta. “My own wife said that I wouldn’t do anything as silly as what that lady was talking about.”
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