During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to POLITICO.Now, when I see a handful of unnamed sources, as well as Politico, I do get a little suspicious. This is the kind of story that might get dropped as a dirty trick in the hopes of a frenetic denial/drop-out. I guess we'll just have to see what the coming week will bring us, but I'd been thinking about a speculation I had on the matter, which I've commented about elsewhere--what if Cain really was just in it to sell books and get a higher profile? If his campaign did extra-specially well, it would be like The Producers, where a success would result in exposing that he never expected to go all the way. His "out" would have to be something that disrupted his campaign significantly.
The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave them financial payouts to leave the association. The agreements also included language that bars the women from talking about their departures.
I figured it would be some kind of campaign misstep, like funky ads that made no sense, a lack of campaign infrastructure, something where he just dropped in the polls with no real blame to go around; you know, just a basic "failure to thrive". But something like this is pretty scandalicious: it has echoes of Clarence Thomas.
I reckon I'll have more to post about all this.
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