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Cain Accuser Says Candidate Groped Her

(CNN) — A woman who claimed Herman Cain sexually harassed her in 1997 said Monday she hoped the Republican presidential candidate would come clean about other allegations of sexual misconduct.Sharon Bialek said Cain reached under her skirt and pressed her head toward his crotch when Bialek was visiting Cain in Washington to get job hunting advice after she had been “terminated” from the National Restaurant Association.Bialek said that when she protested, Cain asked, “You want a job, right?”Bialek worked at the educational foundation of the National Restaurant Association beginning from 1996 to 1997, when she said her superiors released her from her position, citing poor fundraising numbers.Bialek said she was already acquainted with Cain after meeting him at NRA conferences, and visited him in Washington in July 1997 to see if he could help her regain her position or find another position within the organization.when Bialek and Cain were returning from dinner, Bialek said Cain made inappropriate advances in a parked car.”He put his hand on my leg, under my skirt, and reached for my genitals,” Bialek said. “He also grabbed my head and pushed it toward his crotch.”Cain’s campaign denied Bialek’s allegations in a statement before the press conference began.”Just as the country finally begins to refocus on our crippling $15 trillion national debt and the unacceptably high unemployment rate, now activist celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is bringing forth more false accusations against the character of Republican front-runner Herman Cain,” the statement read.”All allegations of harassment against mr. Cain are completely false. mr. Cain has never harassed anyone. Fortunately the American people will not allow mr. Cain’s bold “9-9-9 Plan”, clear foreign policy vision and plans for energy independence to be overshadowed by these bogus attacks.”Cain is entering his second week of battling reports he sexually harassed women while heading the NRA in the 1990s. Last week, the lawyer for one woman who reportedly settled with the association over harassment allegations said his client would not reveal her name or any details about her claim.various media outlets reported there were two more women who made allegations against Cain and subsequently received financial settlements.Cain said Saturday he was finished answering questions about the sexual harassment claims, telling reporters in Texas he was focused on getting his campaign “on message.”"Read all of the other accounts, where everything has been answered – end of story,” Cain said.Copyright CNN 2011

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.”Cain is a sideshow” –David Brooks, on NPRThere’s some rich history on this date in Ark, anti-labor law, racist L.R. lawyers, 3rd party candidates, banana republic and more ………. “Smith’s Alternative Ark History on this date”7-Nov 1932 Liberty Party presidential nominee W.H. “Coin” Harvey at Monte Ne conceded defeat in 1932 election.7-Nov 1933 Socialist Party organizer Martha Johnson invited Norman Thomas to visit Tyronza, “Here you will find the true proletariat; here you will find inarticulate men moving irresistibly toward revolution and no less.”7-Nov 1940 …Federal Judge Harry Lemley overturned convictions of 8 Jehovah’s Witnesses and issued a restraining order against the City of Harrison to cease further harassment of them in the exercise of their religious liberty.7-Nov 1944 Arkansas voters adopted Amendment 34 to Arkansas Constitution of 1874, outlawing union shops and paving the way for the heinous “Right to Work for Less” statute to keep Arkansas wages low.7-Nov 1951 Fort Smith Local 472 of United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers of America, C.I.O. declared a strike against LeFlore County Gas and Electric Company.7-Nov 1960 Edwin Dunaway and George Howard, Jr., argued before U.S. Supreme Court that Act 10 of 1958 was unconstitutional, prevailing over Herschel Friday, Robert Light, and Louis Ramsay who defended statute. The law required all state employees to file an affidavit listing their political affiliations and group memberships from the previous five years, making it easier to fire them for membership in the NAACP and other organizations.7-Nov 1997 Attorney General Winston Bryant filed suit against House Speaker Bobby Hogue and Representative Ed Thicksten to remove them from $65,000 state jobs they created for themselves.7-Nov 1998 Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, co-founder of San Francisco’s famed City Lights bookstore, and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-poet Lucinda Williams headlined “A Gathering of Poets VII” at Hot Springs.7-Nov 2000 Governor Mike Huckabee told a national radio audience, “our biggest concern is ballot fraud. you know, it’s like the Banana Republic of Arkansas in elections.”7-Nov 2003 George Takei, who portrayed Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek series and in six Star Trek movies, visited the former site of the Rohwer concentration camp in Desha County where he was interned with his family in 1943.7-Nov 2006 State Representative Lindsley Smith (D-Fayetteville) won landslide reelection with 73% over a right-wing Republican.–compiled by Stephen Smith, PhD.