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Acid Trip
11-08-2011, 02:50 PM
Witness: Cain accuser hugged him during Tea Party meeting a month ago
By MICHAEL SNEED msneed@suntimes.com November 8, 2011 12:30AM

http://www.suntimes.com/8592168-417/sneed-witness-says-cain-accuser-hugged-him-during-tea-party-meeting-a-month-ago.html

The Cain Encounter ...

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They hugged each other backstage in a full embrace like old friends.

She grabbed his arm and whispered in his left ear.

She kept talking as he bent to listen, and he kept saying “Uh, huh. Uh, huh.”

Huh?

“I don’t know if what she was giving him was a sucker punch, but he didn’t put his arm down while she was talking to him,” said the Sneed source.

◆The “he”... is GOP presidential contender Herman Cain, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several women.

◆The “she”... is Chicagoan Sharon Bialek, who held a news conference Tuesday as the only woman to PUBLICLY accuse Cain of sexual harassment.

◆The Sneed source ... is WIND radio co-host Amy Jacobson, who tells Sneed she witnessed the Cain/Bialek encounter a month ago while backstage at the AM 560 WIND sponsored TeaCon meeting in Schaumburg Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center.

◆Quoth Jacobson: “I had turned on TV to find out who was Cain’s accuser, and I almost fell over when I saw it was Sharon Bialek accusing Cain of groping her genitals.”

“I was waiting for Herman Cain’s ‘Accuser No. 4’ to surface — and up pops Sharon!”

“I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked.”

“I recall Sharon was hell bent on going backstage at the TeaCon convention — where she cornered him,” said Jacobson.

“I was surprised to hear she claims she did not know Cain was going to be there. Cain was expected and was late.”

Bialek told the media on Monday: “I went up to him and asked him if he remembered me. I wanted to see if he would be man enough to own up to what he had done 14 years ago.”

◆The encounter: “It looked sort of flirtatious,” said Jacobson. “I mean they were hugging. But she could have been giving him the kiss of death for all I know. I had no idea what they were talking about, but she was inches from his ear.”

◆The introduction: “It all began when I took a convention break and joined my pals at the hotel bar. Sharon was drinking Mimosas with them. She said she was a Republican, a Tea Party member, had once dated [White Sox sports announcer’ Steve Stone] and had worked at WGN radio.”

◆The rendezvous: Sharon also said she was anxious to meet Cain again and had once gone to an afterparty with him and her boyfriend years ago. But she never mentioned he had sexually harassed her.”

DemonGeminiX
11-08-2011, 03:01 PM
Ok, it's been all over the place for several days now. Everybody had a chance to digest it, so I'm asking you: Is this all bunk or is the guy a bona fide creep?

Acid Trip
11-08-2011, 03:25 PM
Ok, it's been all over the place for several days now. Everybody had a chance to digest it, so I'm asking you: Is this all bunk or is the guy a bona fide creep?

Anyone who wants to be a politician is at least a little creepy by default. Is he as big a creep as the media is trying to show? Probably not.

Muddy
11-08-2011, 03:27 PM
Is this the chick from the Today show this morning?

Acid Trip
11-08-2011, 03:29 PM
Is this the chick from the Today show this morning?

Yes.

Muddy
11-08-2011, 03:31 PM
What a fuckin dirtbag... Cha Ching!

Muddy
11-08-2011, 03:32 PM
Gloria Allred isn't any better than friggin blood thirsty Al Sharpton..

Acid Trip
11-08-2011, 03:49 PM
Gloria Allred isn't any better than friggin blood thirsty Al Sharpton..

Whenever someone hires Gloria Allred you know they are full of shit and lying through their teeth.

Teh One Who Knocks
11-08-2011, 05:35 PM
Ok, it's been all over the place for several days now. Everybody had a chance to digest it, so I'm asking you: Is this all bunk or is the guy a bona fide creep?

I'm gonna go with bunk...a little more in depth on the accuser from the Chicago Tribune (all from the same article):


The emerging portrait of Herman Cain's most recent accuser shows a suburban homemaker with a history of financial and legal troubles, but one who supporters say has the guts to do the right thing.


Records show she twice has filed for personal bankruptcy, first in 1991 and then again in 2001. In the latter case, she claimed $5,700 in assets and more than $36,000 in liabilities. Among the creditors seeking payment was a management firm demanding back rent of $4,500, four credit card companies and a lawyer asking for his legal fees.

After the case was discharged, she accused a former boyfriend of harassing her for repayment of a loan, court records in the bankruptcy case show. Bialek borrowed $4,500 from William Concha, though Concha now believes she had no intention of paying him back, according to his brother, Mario.


At least two liens have been filed against Bialek, according to records from the Cook County recorder of deeds.

The IRS filed a tax lien against her in 2009 for nearly $5,200. In August, the Illinois Department of Revenue claimed Bialek owed the state more than $4,300, including penalties and interest, relating to income taxes from 2004, according to county records.

Court records also show creditors took legal action against her during the past decade, including at least one lawsuit filed in Cook County.

Hal-9000
11-08-2011, 05:38 PM
I heard the sound byte with her statement....it's too pat IMO.She claims he said to her near the end - You want the job don't you?

Even if he was fondling her the script reads...like a script.

Teh One Who Knocks
11-08-2011, 05:41 PM
I heard the sound byte with her statement....it's too pat IMO.She claims he said to her near the end - You want the job don't you?

Even if he was fondling her the script reads...like a script.

Like MG mentioned, picking Gloria Alred as your attorney makes you lose all credibility in your argument. She's nothing but a money grubbing attention whore.

Hal-9000
11-08-2011, 05:43 PM
I like how politicians get through the majority of their lives and elections without getting charged for improper activities.
Then as the bigger election looms, all of a sudden there's 4 people claiming the guy is a pervert...

mudslinging never gets old, it just adapts to the times :thumbsup:

Deepsepia
11-08-2011, 05:48 PM
Ok, it's been all over the place for several days now. Everybody had a chance to digest it, so I'm asking you: Is this all bunk or is the guy a bona fide creep?

What we do know is she's -- at the minimum-- "imprudent"

Here's the thing about sexual allegations: if no one pressed charges or said something at the time, how does someone defend themselves a decade later?

There's a basic fairness issue: "he said-she said" is hard to evaluate at the time it occurs, it's impossible to evaluate ten years later. I don't even necessarily put much weight on the fact that NRA paid settlements; knowing what a pain in the ass sexual harassment lawsuits are, a prudent businessman will settle these things for less cost and embarrassment than going to trial.

I felt the same way about Clarence Thomas-- how is a guy supposed to defend himself against an allegation without evidence from ten years earlier?

Tearing down leaders or would be leaders over this kind of stuff is insane. The reality is that great leaders frequently are not nice people (Steve Jobs as case #1 of a really horrible boss). I don't care. Herman Cain is not running for "nice brother-in-law", he's running for President.

Hal-9000
11-08-2011, 05:50 PM
I agree with Deep.If it was an offense X -amount of years ago the complainant should have stepped forward.

FBD
11-08-2011, 08:05 PM
I agree with Deep.If it was an offense X -amount of years ago the complainant should have stepped forward.

Yup, which is why straws are being grasped, anything, everything goes with most who attempt to call themselves "journalists" these days.