Here’s the full video of Herman Cain’s latest accuser, Sharon Bialek and her attorney, Gloria Allred’s press conference about her allegations against Cain that date back to 1997. She claims that after losing her job at the association, she reached out to Cain thinking he could help her find a new job. She traveled to Washington, DC and was surprised to find that he upgraded her room for her. After meeting in the lobby bar and going to dinner, she described the following scenario:
Bialek says Cain took her to the NRA offices — she thought they were going inside, but Cain reached under her skirt to grab her genitals and tried to force her head down to his crotch. She says she said: “What are you doing? That’s not what I came here for.” To which she alleges Cain responded “You want a job don’t you?”
Later she said she attended a recent tea party conference and Herman Cain was a speaker. She said she confronted him and asked if he remembered her. She said that he told her he did remember her from the office, but looked uncomfortable before being whisked away by his handlers.
Herman Cain immediately issued a denial, and Bialek refused to take any questions. I’d like to know if anyone witnessed the confrontation at the tea party rally she described. The allegations are 14 years old, and as Stacy pointed out, the affidavits from the individuals she said she told about the encounter at the time would probably be inadmissable in a court of law. But this is the court of public opinion we’re talking about. Nice Deb is thinking Cain is toast at this point. Tina Korbe is wondering what’s to stop women in the future from coming out with allegations of sexual impropriety against any candidate they choose? That’s an especially troubling thought considering that the media likes to ignore allegations against Democrats.
I don’t know, this doesn’t look good for Cain, even if it was Gloria Allred standing at Bialek’s side. The only good news for him today is that the verdict in the trial against Michael Jackson’s doctor is coming down as I type this, so that story has taken over the airwaves, at least for a little while. BTW – he was found guilty of manslaughter.
Update: Scared Monkeys linked, thanks!
Also see: Who is Sharon Bialek?
Why didn’t she go to the authorities when this happened? What she describes is an assault and the police should have been brought into this. Where was this woman when Cain ran for Senator almost a decade ago when all these allegations would have been far fresher? Unless some of these so called accusers can come up with something solid and answer questions it’s just a he said, she said in the blood sport of presidential politics.
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The police dept couldn’t exist if it had to stop and process complaints from every woman who got touched up by a guy.
Best regards,
Guy who’s not got a long criminal record for the same reason.
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Gloria Allred: two words say it all!
Does that woman have no shame?
Remember how she used an illegal criminal to derail Maggie Whitman.
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How on earth is she paying Gloria Allred? Or WHO is paying Allred? This is just more crap. I still support Cain; I am very, very familiar with sexual harassment investigations and a lot of “lie flags” are going up here for me.
I think–like most of the male population AT THAT TIME–he may have flirted, or even put a serious move on someone. Big deal. You say stop, he does, that’s not harassment. You decide maybe you can get a year’s salary out of the Anita HIll legacy, it’s not hard to ramp up a false complaint and be paid to leave. I agree with Michigan—very, very suspect that no one attacked him on this when he ran for other office. And this woman is from CHICAGO….. nice coincidence, that.
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If Cain really did something sexual that Bialek didn’t like, why was she buzzing around him at Tea Parties? Wouldn’t she try to stay away from him?
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