Thread: Cain Hurls Blame At Perry Aide Curt Anderson And Campaign

Cain Hurls Blame At Perry Aide Curt Anderson And Campaign

RealClearPolitics.com
Posted on November 3, 2011

Herman Cain appeared on Sean Hannity's radio show late Thursday afternoon, jumping back in the fray after the online news website Politico accused him of sexual harassment in the workplace nearly two decades ago.

Cain's campaign had previously laid blame at the Perry campaign, specifically Curt Anderson, a one-time Cain aide, during his 2004 bid for U.S. Senate, who is now a key Perry aide.

Earlier this afternoon on FOX News, Cain's chief of staff Mark Block would not relent on blaming the Perry campaign either, but would not condemn Mr. Anderson this time.

However, in the interview with Hannity, Cain did not mince words. He clearly believes his former aide Curt Anderson is the leaker, citing what seems to be his close relationship with Politico as well as being a current staffer for Rick Perry's presidential campaign. Cain spent nearly thirty minutes on the air with Hannity but in the key part of the segment we have made available here, as well as the transcript, it is clear who Cain thinks was behind this. A transcript of the audio is provided below.

"When you look at the facts, and you look at the fact that Politico doesn't have any documentation, they've never talked to these women who are anonymous, Herman Cain said on Sean Hannity's radio program. "I didn't know there was so many women named 'Anonymous' in America to be perfectly honest with you because they keep digging up others, okay."

"When Anderson Cooper asked someone from Politico point blank, were you tipped off by a rival campaign, the person from Politico wouldn't answer. What does that suggest?" Cain continued. "All I'm saying is we are just looking at all the facts."

"This Mr. [Curt] Anderson is frequently quoted in Politico. He's got a connection there, and he started working for the Perry campaign two weeks ago. These are simply the facts," Cain said.

Asked whether the leak could have come from another campaign, perhaps from GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney as a Perry aide suggested, Cain highly doubted it.

“The assertion that somebody made [that] it might be coming from somewhere else, let’s just say, there aren't enough bread crumbs that we can lay down and connect, that leads us anywhere else at this particular time and we're moving on," he said.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/ ... paign.html

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