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One of the five women to have accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment when she worked for him at the National Restaurant Association has been named and pictured, making her the second of Cain's identified 'victims'.
Karen Kraushaar, a 55-year-old federal employee and registered Republican, was one of the two women who, in the late 1990s, settled claims of sexual harassment against the 2012 GOP presidential candidate.
Mrs Kraushaar's lawyer released a statement from his client last week after it was first reported on Politico, starting the slew of allegations against Cain. She is unwilling to add anything more except to confirm it is her.
Woman No. 1
The Second Accuser to
Go Public Against Cain
By JIM RUTENBERG
AND MICHAEL D. SHEAR
November 8, 2011
Karen Kraushaar, one of the two women who settled sexual harassment claims
against Herman Cain with the National Restaurant Association, spoke publicly
for the first time on Tuesday about her allegations against the Republican
presidential candidate.
Ms. Kraushaar, a spokeswoman at the Treasury Department, said in an interview
that she was upset that her name had leaked into some press reports. But she
said that she had decided to speak out now that her identity was publicly known.
“When you are being sexually harassed in the workplace, you are extremely
vulnerable,” she said. “You do whatever you can to quickly get yourself into a job
some place safe, and that is what I thought I had achieved when I left.”
Ms. Kraushaar had previously allowed her lawyer to challenge Mr. Cain’s denial that
he had done anything wrong while at the helm of the restaurant association in the
late 1990s. But after another woman, Sharon Bialek, went public on Monday and
several news organizations published Ms. Kraushaar’s name on Tuesday, she said
she had decided to talk publicly — at least in a limited way.
She said she did not know whether or how she might tell more of her story but said
that she had been <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">warming “to the idea of a joint press conference where all of the
women would be together with our attorneys and all of this evidence would be
considered together.”</span>
She said of Mr. Cain: “These allegations can be considered together as a body of
evidence.”
Ms. Kraushaar’s public statement came less than an hour before Mr. Cain was
expected to confront Monday’s allegations from Ms. Bialek at a news conference in
Phoenix.
Mr. Cain has denied all allegations of sexual harassment. The restaurant association
confirmed that the group settled sexual harassment allegations made against Mr.
Cain by Ms. Kraushaar.
“I reject all of those charges,” Mr. Cain said Monday afternoon about Ms. Bialek.
How can I defend charges when I don’t remember this person by name.” He added
a few minutes later: “I don’t even know who this lady is.”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/a-second-accuser-goes-public-against-cain/
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Did he tried to get in her cookie jar also?
I didn't know that he was married when all these alleged incidents happened. Damn, he might have a thing for white women, trying to bag them up on the side.
He should have brought a lied detector test results to the press conference.
I didn't know that he was married when all these alleged incidents happened. Damn, he might have a thing for white women, trying to bag them up on the side.
He should have brought a lied detector test results to the press conference.