Woman alleges long affair with Cain

Herman Cain appears to have been quite  a ladies man…

Notwithstanding his religious views, Herman Cain appears to be an intelligent man. Having said that, if everything alleged against him in terms of sexual harassment, groping, and now a prolonged extra-marital affair is true, he isn’t very intelligent; either that or he was in denial. He certainly should have been smart enough to know that all his dirty laundry would sooner or later be exposed.

Personally, I don’t like the guy, but to be fair, what does having an affair have to do with an individual’s competency and ability to perform his or her job? Doesn’t the general public realize just how many people in key positions, across all walks of life, have had and/or are currently having affairs?

People need to wake up! TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press

APBy HENRY C. JACKSON | AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgia businesswoman said Monday she and Herman Cain had a 13-year extramarital affair, an allegation the Republican presidential hopeful denied as strongly as earlier allegations of sexual harassment.

“Here we go again. I didn’t do anything wrong,” Cain said on CNN. He acknowledged he knew the woman who was behind the accusation.

Moments after Cain issued a preemptive denial, an Atlanta television station posted a story to its website quoting a woman identified as Ginger White as saying, “It wasn’t complicated. I was aware that he was married. And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship.”

Cain’s candidacy was soaring in the polls until he was hit less than a month ago with accusations that he sexually harassed several women and groped one while he was a high-ranking official at the National Restaurant Association. He has since fallen back in the surveys, and been eclipsed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the race to emerge as the principle conservative alternative to Mitt Romney.

In this case, unlike the others, Cain took the unorthodox step of issuing a denial in advance.

“I did not have an affair, and until I see and hear exactly what’s going to be, what accusations are going to be made, let’s move on,” he said.

Asked if he suspected his accuser had emails, letters, gifts or other possible evidence of an affair, he replied,”No.”

The Fox 5 television station in Atlanta also posted a statement it said it received from Cain’s lawyer, Lin Wood. The statement said the former businessman has no obligation to “discuss these types of accusations publicly with the media and he will not do so even if his principled position is viewed unfavorably by members of the media.”

The posting quoted the statement as drawing a distinction between “private alleged consensual conduct between adults” and a case of harassment. It did not include an explicit denial of an affair along the lines that Cain himself provided in his television interview.

Contacted by AP, Wood declined immediate comment.

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