Sharon Bialek: Herman Cain knows who I am

Lawyer Gloria Allred attends a news conference with Sharon Bialek (L) during a news conference in New York November 7, 2011.

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Updated at 11:48 a.m. ET

Sharon Bialek, the first woman to step forward publicly with sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain, suggested Wednesday the presidential contender was lying yesterday when he said he doesn't remember Bialek.

On MSNBC Wednesday, Bialek recounted an incident, which others have said they witnessed, in which she approached Cain at a Tea Party rally.

"I simply grasped his elbow and leaned in towards him to acknowledge he knew exactly who I was," she said. "He acknowledged who I was."

Bialek declined to reveal what she said to Cain at the event, but she said, "It was simply a few statements to jar his memory ... That was only a month ago."

At a press conference on Tuesday, Cain said he did not recall ever seeing Bialek before she came forward with her allegations on Monday. "I tried to remember if I recognized her, and I didn't. I tried to remember if I remembered that name, and I didn't," he said.

Bialek said she was "very disappointed but not surprised" by Cain's response, which she said "disrespected me and millions of other women across the country who are violated in the same way in the workplace."

Bialek earlier this week charged that, after a dinner meeting with Cain in 1997, Cain attempted to fondle her. Bialek had arranged the meeting to seek employment help from Cain, who was at the time head of the National Restaurant Association.

Before Bialek came forward, it was reported that two unidentified women had filed sexual harassment complaints against Cain at the NRA in the 1990's. Then, a third unidentified woman alleged she was also harassed by Cain more than a decade ago. Bialek's public statements prompted one unidentified women who file a complaint to also reveal her identity -- Karen Kraushaar.

Kraushaar said she was interested in holding a joint press conference with all the women who say they were harassed by Cain.

Bialek said on MSNBC that she would be "all for" the joint press conference as long as her attorney Gloria Allred is also on board. Bialek added she is "proud" of Kraushaar for coming forward.

"If [my statements] just made one person come forward, it was worth it," she said.

Joel Bennett, the lawyer for Cain accuser Karen Kraushaar, said today that a joint press conference with women who have complained of harassment by Cain could be as early as tomorrow or Friday. He said Kraushaar is reaching out to the other woman who filed a complaint with the restaurant group.

"As of this time, we have not heard from the other women who have stated that they were sexually harassed," Kraushaar said in a statement. "We are still hopeful that they will have the courage to come forward, but we completely understand if they choose not to."

Cain's campaign yesterday sent an email to Cain's supporters aggressively attacking Bialek and calling into questions her motives. By citing her history in other lawsuits and her troubled financial history, Cain's campaign suggested she was seeking a financial payoff.

Bialek maintained today, "I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do," not for financial reasons.

Allred, who appeared on MSNBC with Bialek, said Cain's motives for attacking Bialek need to be questioned.

"He has a financial and a political motivation," Allred said -- namely to "be able to raise more money for his campaign [and] also to sell his book. His political motivation is to... stay on top" of the Republican presidential field.

While some have suggested Allred has a partisan motive (she donates to the Democratic party), Allred pointed out that she also represented a woman who came forward with complaints of sexual misconduct against disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Allred pointed out that Weiner resigned a day after her famous press conference with her client.

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[melbutera8]

What a load of BS. Not one shred of this statement rings true. How did he put his hand on her leg and pull her dead at the same time? What is he the National Twister Champion? Try it yourself. And waht car did he drive in 1997 that didn't have a center console or gear shifter? Was she going to get that up her nose? And what palatial suite does the Capital Hilton have? Their biggest suite on is not all that big. http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/DCASHHH-Capital-Hilton-District-of-Columbia/accommodations.do If she really was at a Tea Party event (she must be a racist if she was, right?) then the only reason was to be seen with him- she is a stranger and shakes his hand , and then surprise someone will say she was there. Probably there's a picture taken by the same photographer that just happened to get a pic of Michelle in Target). This is a tool to show later that when he says he doesn't know her (because he didn't) they can say that he does. And after all is said and done-- what is she really accusing him of ? He made a pass-- she declined. He took her home. Anticlimatic at best. Where is your train ticket? What date did this occur so Mr. Cain's secretary can confirm that he was even in DC. Where is your hotel bill? What a load of CACA. And the media falls for it hook line and sinker.

[duffydog1954]

lady you had your 15 mins, tell the Dems it did not, work get your check an go on vaction
you may run into Obuma
Herman Cain in 2012
999
Fair Tax

[EllieEnlightened]

DAVID AXELROD'S PATTERN OF SEXUAL MISBEHAVIOR
November 9, 2011
Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago.

So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod.

Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA).

The Daley-controlled IRA works hand-in-glove with the NRA. And strangely enough, Cain's short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he's alleged to have been a sexual predator.

After O'Grady's name surfaced in connection with the miraculous appearance of Cain's personnel files from the NRA, she issued a Clintonesque denial of any involvement in producing them -- by vigorously denying that she knew Cain when he was at the NRA. (Duh.)

And now, after a week of conservative eye-rolling over unspecified, anonymous accusations against Cain, we've suddenly got very specific sexual assault allegations from an all-new accuser out of ... Chicago.

Herman Cain has never lived in Chicago. But you know who has? David Axelrod! And guess who lived in Axelrod's very building? Right again: Cain's latest accuser, Sharon Bialek.

Bialek's accusations were certainly specific. But they also demonstrated why anonymous accusations are worthless.

Within 24 hours of Bialek's press conference, friends and acquaintances of hers stepped forward to say that she's a "gold-digger," that she was constantly in financial trouble -- having filed for personal bankruptcy twice -- and, of course, that she had lived in Axelrod's apartment building at 505 North Lake Shore Drive, where, she admits, she knew the man The New York Times calls Obama's "hired muscle."
Ann Coulter

[EllieEnlightened]

Yea we all know who you are a piece of trash.

Gloria Allred is good but not that good. She has her bimbo out there saying "Herman Cain believes what he says because he a pathological liar". DO YOU KNOW WHY? Because when he passes the lie detector test they can say "Pathological Liars can pass them". Do you really believe that Bimbo thought of that by herself? Also Allred made and fool out of herself on Hannity last night.

[VotersOfNY]

He sure does know who she is, she's a money-grubbing ****. I personally know this woman. I had her in a trash container one night behind a diner. No, I don't want to give my name but I swear it's true.

[compduck]

Who is paying ALL RED? Why is she with this lady....exposure? Why wait 14 years? Is this the twilight zone? Something is not right considering the history of this women. She seems to just be there for MONEY . YES

[sweetcakesmaria]

This Bialek woman recently revealed that she approached Cain at a tea party meeting. By her own admission, she grabbed his arm and whispered in his ear. That in itself can be construed as sexual harassment on her part if Cain wished to pursue it. Physically grabbing his arm was definitely battery.

[rexreddy]

AMEN!

[alterpath5]

Voice stress analysis is a discredited method for determining truthfulness. The way to figure out who is lying is to ask all parties to submit to a polygraph examination. The FBI, a big city police agency, or a private security firm, could do the examinations.

[ponce]

This woman has no video, audio, or witnesses. She has 'NO PROOF', and yet the media is salivating over every word that she says. Anybody can say that they had a homosexual relationship with Romney and the media will print it as the word of god.

The media is supposed to report the truth not unsubstantiated lies.

[scottie1321]

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/16002149/investigator-herman-cain-innocent-of-sexual-advances

ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -

Private investigator TJ Ward said presidential hopeful Herman Cain was not lying at a news conference on Tuesday in Phoenix.

Cain denied making any sexual actions towards Sharon Bialek and vowed to take a polygraph test if necessary to prove his innocence.

Cain has not taken a polygraph but Ward said he does have software that does something better.

Ward said the $15,000 software can detect lies in people's voices.

CBS Atlanta's Mike Paluska played Cain's speech for Ward into the software and watched as it analyzed Cain's every word.

[One_American_________]

Interesting that the software detects multiple false statements by Sharon Bialek at the same time.

Looks like the character assassination attempt by the Democrat Party has fallen on its face, and now the fingers are all pointing at the Democrat Party as racist, lying scoundrels.

Time for ALL minorities to leave the Democrat Plantation - their whips can't keep you imprisoned anymore.

[ModerateRepub]

I doubt this is a Democratic hit on Cain's character. Although it possibly could be, it leans more towards Republican on Republican fighting for the primary. I personally would vote for Herman Cain for his business sense alone. Give him the reigns as president and get him a strong political VP and they could become the best combination in US Presidental history. In my opinion.