Cain campaign: We raised $400K yesterday

By: Christine Delargy
Topics: Campaign 2012

(Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Updated 6:36 p.m. Eastern Time

Herman Cain's campaign said it raised more than $400,000 on Monday in the wake of allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct in the 1990s in what it called "the single best day of fundraising since the start of the campaign."

"Yesterday alone, Mr. Cain received more than $400,000 in financial gifts from his supporters via online donations and other sources. This level of support is more than the normal monthly average," said Cain Chief of Staff Mark Block.

Block earlier said the campaign raised a quarter of a million dollars, calling it one of the campaign's "best fundraising days ever." The campaign released the revised figure late in the day.

Cain spent Monday and Tuesday denying the sexual misconduct allegations and suggesting a "witch hunt" against him.

"This bull's eye on my back has gotten bigger," Cain said in an appearance at the National Press Club yesterday.

On Tuesday, Block attributed fundraising success to Cain's message on jobs resonating around the country.

"Obviously we're doing something right," he said at a forum in Washington on the 2012 election sponsored by National Journal.

Block also addressed a separate Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report on allegations the Cain campaign may have skirted federal campaign finance rules, confirming the campaign has retained outside counsel. He wouldn't comment any further, directing the conversation to what "American people want to hear about: jobs, jobs, jobs."

Chided by the panel moderator for staying on message, Block gruffly joked, "what a concept."

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Below, Block addresses the allegations yesterday with CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford:

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Christine Delargy is a producer for CBSNews.com.
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by Barracuda_Trader November 2, 2011 2:02 AM EDT: "Cain clearly believes that his pro-business message is what GOP voters want to hear. So much so, in fact, that on Saturday he officially unveiled his candidacy for the 2012 GOP nomination. But scrubbed from Cain's official story is his long tenure as a director at a Midwest energy corporation named Aquila that, like the infamous Enron Corporation, recklessly drove into the wild west of energy trading and speculation - and ultimately screwed its employees out of tens of millions of dollars," Mother Jones reports.
According to a massive class action lawsuit against Aquila's board of directors - including Cain - he allegedly steered employees into heavily investing their retirement savings in company stock, while at the same time shifting their business model from straightforward energy generation to risky energy trading - the kind of corporate greed that infamously brought down Enron, Mother Jones reports. In the suit, it claims that Cain and other top officials violated a 37-year-old federal law that requires employers to responsibly manage the retirement programs for their employees. Their pensions and life savings were lost.; Reply to this comment


by truth007 November 1, 2011 8:10 PM EDT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR9EvPnBVEk; Reply to this comment


by _Liann_ November 1, 2011 7:59 PM EDT: The WHOLE TRUTH of the sleezeball Herman Cain is coming out, how he took $190,000 a year from Maytag-Whirlpool while slashing 5,000 American jobs, how he destroyed Aquila energy corp and got sued for $10,000,000, how his Chief of Staff, smoking-Mark Block was banned from politics by court order in Wisconsin for three years for illegal dirty tricks, how he is on his knees to Koch who is staffing Cain's Campaign with up to ten AFP Koch-employees. The CRIMINAL transfer of $60,000 from Mark Block's "charity" (funded by Koch) to kickstart the Cainster's campaign was flat out illegal.; Reply to this comment


by Imthaid2 November 1, 2011 1:42 PM EDT: "We raised $250K yesterday"

That won't be enough to cover your legal fees.; Reply to this comment

by sandy 1027 November 1, 2011 1:38 PM EDT

I have always tried to be fair towards people that I don't agree with ideologically or politically, and be restrained in my comments; but this all makes me wonder what this country has come to.Cain and his supporters seem delusional. In listening to many of them talk about this, and even other matters, they think that the media, and all who disagree with them, are " enemies", who are out to get them.They have one standard for others, and a different one for themselves.If Cain was a Democrat or Independent, white or other, he would still be wrong, and they would be the first ones to lead the charge against him; and yet , because he's one of their own , who they see as under attack, not because of his own misdeeds that are rightly scrutinized; but because of his ideological views; and they close ranks around him, and give him even more support, morally and financially. They have lost all credibility on values . This is the height of hypocrisy and paranoia.

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by Shadowface7 November 1, 2011 7:22 PM EDT: Really... You must be blind to not see some type of media bias. Do you realize how long it took most of the media to respond against Anthony Weiner? In the beginning, most of the media were giving him the benefit of the doubt. Then, they began saying that what Mr. Weiner does on his own time is his own business. When the pictures came out, they finally began to attack him. THIS is the height of hypocrisy. Don't label yourself as "fair" if you turn a blind eye towards what has happened in the past.