Atlanta woman says she and Herman Cain had 13-year, ‘off-and-on’ affair
A local Atlanta businesswoman went on local television this evening to declare that she had had a 13-year, “off-and-on” relationship with GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain.
“It was pretty simple. It wasn’t complicated. I was aware that he was married. I was also aware that I was involved in a very inappropriate situation,” Ginger White said in a televised interview with Fox 5 Atlanta reporter Dale Russell.
Ginger White poses for a photo near Dunwoody, Ga. on Monday. In an explosive allegation, White said Monday she and Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain had a 13-year extramarital affair that lasted nearly until the former businessman announced his candidacy for the White House several months ago. AP/Greg Bluestein
In a move to pre-empt the report, Cain went to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer an hour before the Fox 5 broadcast, where he pointed to the report as the latest attempt to smear his candidacy.
Earlier this month, Cain’s rocketing candidacy was hit with accusations of inappropriate behavior toward three women while he was president of the National Restaurant Association. Cain denied any suggestions that he had harassed or made unwanted passes at the women.
“Here we go again,” Cain said Monday to Blitzer. “We will basically show, when the details become available, that I didn’t do anything wrong.”
But Cain, an ordained Baptist minister, said he couldn’t rule out any other accusations:
”Think about it, Wolf. You go through life and you believe that you have some people that are friends. And when someone that appears to be a friend, turns around and concocts this story, you’ve got to question – the hundreds of thousands of people that I have met in my life, a hundred thousand people could possibly come out. Do I know of any that might come out? Not off the top of my head.”
Cain pointed to his Atlanta attorney, Linn Wood, for further details. But in a letter to Fox 5, Wood didn’t repeat Cain’s denials:
This is not an accusation of harassment in the workplace – this is not an accusation of an assault – which are subject matters of legitimate inquiry to a political candidate.
Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door.
In the Fox 5 interview, White said she was pressured to confess the affair by inquiries from other media outlets. “I wanted to give my side, before it was thrown out there and made out to be something, you know, filthy,” she said.
The two met in the late 1990s in Louisville, Ky., where Cain had given a presentation. Drinks led to an invitation to his hotel room, she said. Afterwards, Cain would fly her to locations where he was speaking.
“He made it very intriguing. It was fun. It was something that took me away from my humdrum life at the time. And it was exciting,” White said. She provided Russell with copies of her cell phone bill, showing text messages and phone calls from a number that White said was Cain’s private cell phone number.
“We never worked together. I can’t imagine anyone phoning or texting me for the last two and a half years just because,” White said.
Russell said he texted the cell number that White provided, and that Cain replied. The GOP candidate said White had the number because he had provided financial assistance to her.
White said the physical relationship ended eight months ago, not long before Cain announced his candidacy.
In his CNN interview, Cain said neither his wife nor any member of his family knew the woman in question. He insisted he would not leave the contest – unless the pressure became too great on his wife and family.
“I am sick and tired of the hurt and harm that somebody out there is doing to my family, more so [than] to me, with these baseless charges. What this says is, somebody is awfully afraid I’m doing too well in this Republican nomination,” Cain said.
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- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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ABO....Anybody But Obama
November 28th, 2011
5:45 pm
Time to make the donuts
Bill
November 28th, 2011
5:45 pm
Pete’s brother,
No need to apologize. Pete has every reason to be angry. I just think he is angry at the wrong people.
DannyX
November 28th, 2011
5:45 pm
“…that everyone buys help insurance.”
Master’s degree? LMAO!
Pete
November 28th, 2011
5:47 pm
you got me. I must have dropped out after the 4th grade with the words I misspelled.
Cruzin
November 28th, 2011
5:47 pm
Hermy baby, the real sugar Cain!
Shane Barber
November 28th, 2011
5:48 pm
Will wait for her to provide evidence !
Pete
November 28th, 2011
5:48 pm
yet, you cannot challenge a single argument I have made and Bill is agreeing with me. Bill, angry at the wrong people? Who should I be angry at if not the federal government?
But Pete, who pays now for the uninsured?
November 28th, 2011
5:50 pm
You do, in the form of higher taxes, higher premiums. There is a mandate that everybody pays taxes, same thing, so the mandate is simply another tax. If a mandate means lower health care costs, that puts more money in your pocket. If you have a job, you already have health insurance, and you already pay for it, But you also pay for the illegals who goto the emergency room and get free care, as well as the kid at WalMart who does the same thing. You pay one way or the other….
Bill
November 28th, 2011
5:50 pm
OK Pete,
How many people have gone from the bottom % to the top % of income in the last 30 years?
DannyX
November 28th, 2011
5:50 pm
Cain should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!!
Adultery is illegal in Georgia.
Bill
November 28th, 2011
5:51 pm
Pete, More telling is how many people have slipped from the ranks of the middle class. But I am still anxious to hear the facts.
Jcatl
November 28th, 2011
5:51 pm
I hear when Cain was at Godfathers he was an expert at handling the sausage.
DannyX
November 28th, 2011
5:52 pm
From Cain’s lawyer…
this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door.
Lindy
November 28th, 2011
5:52 pm
The difference between Bill Clinton and Herman Cain – brains – Bill has them and Herman Cain does not!
Do the Math
November 28th, 2011
5:52 pm
Why would she not come out at 6%?
Double digits in the poles equals seven digits on the check.
I’m starting to fear Cain’s business sense at this point.
Be angry at the companies who take jobs offshore
November 28th, 2011
5:52 pm
And be angry at the lobbyists who fight for the loopholes that let companies like GE capital pay ZERO taxes while creating jobs everywhere except the USA.
td
November 28th, 2011
5:53 pm
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Tomanisha
November 28th, 2011
5:53 pm
Herman if this 13 year affair thing be true the next ‘preemptive strike’ might be you wifey preemptively strikin upside you fool head wif a fry pan! Fool!
Lisa
November 28th, 2011
5:53 pm
Man look at all you judgers w/out even hearing both sides of the story. Are you really American? CAIN 2012!!!! We don’t believe this lady! It’s just another left wing smear campaign. Where were you people during the Clinton rape —> http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=19483 Yeah, like I thought. You leftist have the biggest double-standard of anyone I know. Nice try, but WE are not falling for this liar either!!! Martin Luther King would be so ashamed of Ginger White and her efforts to try and “destroy” a fellow black man. Obama is NOT a black man or a Christian. He is a Marxist, Socialist loving, Islam loving evil man. Ayers and Soros chose him b/c he knew the SHEEPLE would follow. Never research for themselves only watch liberal baised media w/agenda to keep the black man down. Uh…..that’s why you are experiencing the highest level of black unemployment in history. They love Planned Parenthood b/c it puts controls on your population. Wake up Black Community!! Use your own mind God gave you!!!
Pete
November 28th, 2011
5:54 pm
More than half of families who were in the lowest income bracket in 1996 moved into a higher bracket by 2005. Meanwhile, 57% of families in the top 1% fell out of that bracket.
Bill
November 28th, 2011
5:54 pm
But Pete.
Good points. It is also worth noting that employer paid health care is an historical anomaly. It occurred because companies were under wage and price controls during WWII. So they added benefits which were cheap at the time. The best solution would be to relieve companies of this obligation so they could be more competitive. Then give us all the same single payer health care system.
JDW
November 28th, 2011
5:54 pm
” No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door.”
Yeah right better check with Bill Clinton,Gary Hart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Sanford etc… about how that works.
That Pizza is cooked
November 28th, 2011
5:54 pm
put a fork in it.
Pete
November 28th, 2011
5:55 pm
Income mobility is much more important of a statistic in my opinion. I think there are much better ways to help the healthcare system. I do not like the federal government in charge of thinks except for defense, etc.
Bill
November 28th, 2011
5:56 pm
Pete, what is your source? My first response would be that families in the lowest bracket got bumped into a higher bracket through changes in the tax code or inflation. I find it hard to believe they are making more. As for the top 1% How far did those 57% fall? Again my guess is that they continued to make even more money, but fell out of the top 1% because someone else was making it faster. So, now they are only in the top 2%
Bill
November 28th, 2011
5:57 pm
Pete, Good point about income mobility. I saw an article the other day that concluded that there is more income mobility in Europe than in the US.
Pete
November 28th, 2011
5:58 pm
I will have to look again but I think it was in some material the CBO released. I was reading it a few weeks ago when I was having this discussion with a friend
Spermin' Herman
November 28th, 2011
5:58 pm
This woman is LYIN’ like all them others!
Bill
November 28th, 2011
5:58 pm
JDW,
I like the quote. Who said it?
Pete
November 28th, 2011
5:59 pm
Gotta teach class guys. Have a good evening. Great discussion Bill.
OK, Lisa, you lost me at "Obama is not a black man"
November 28th, 2011
5:59 pm
Quick, in 20 words or less, prove to us that you have any clue what a Socialist or Marxist is, and what exactly is a ‘judger’…is that a ‘decider’ who is now a judge?
Bill
November 28th, 2011
6:00 pm
Lisa,
Take deep breaths!!
Bill
November 28th, 2011
6:00 pm
Me too. See you Pete.
Will
November 28th, 2011
6:02 pm
What a bunch of hypocrites!
When President Clinton and other democrats engaged in similar immoral behavior, you never heard any republican complain or critize them because what happens in the bedroom has no bearing on an elected official.
Republicans NEVER tried to make any political “hay” out of similar stories so democrats should not be allowed to make anything out of Mr. Cain’s immorality.
Mr. Cain is not running for preacher – he is running for president. Just because he is immoral, disloyal and less than honorable in his personal life does not mean that he will be immoral, disloyal and less than honorable as the leader of the free world.
Please, please don’t give up. Send as much money as you can to the pizza salesman because remember, every republican dollar donated to the pizza salesman is one more dollar that does not go to a republican who might actually have a chance to win the White House!
Moaner Lisa
November 28th, 2011
6:03 pm
The store called, your new tinfoil hat came in. Should help with the voices and the poor TV reception.
fred
November 28th, 2011
6:04 pm
Hope she has some solid evidence so Cain will shut the heck up and move on!!!! Go eat pizza!!!
george
November 28th, 2011
6:05 pm
cain is challenging newt for the adulterers vote. the multiple marriages vote seems out of reach.
Ummm....Will, there WAS that little impeachment hearing
November 28th, 2011
6:05 pm
Just a teensy weensie bit of political hay in the name of Ken Starr….. oh yes, the Republicans just respected Clinton’s right to have a private affair. Wolverines DO make good housepets, by the way.
sparedime
November 28th, 2011
6:05 pm
Cain denies an affair, but not a relationship,” says Russell.” So I f_ucked her but it was not an affair #InMyHermanCainVoice
Uh-oh
November 28th, 2011
6:06 pm
Interesting…Clinton gets caught in the cookie jar, and Rebublicans have no problem spending tens of millions of dollars persecuting him for it nor did anyone from that side of the aisle step up and say ‘enough is enough’. Now that a proud Rebublican is caught in it, Cain’s attorney says personal matters in the bedroom are supposed to be off limits??? Really???
Would you think...?
November 28th, 2011
6:08 pm
“I just don’t think more tax cuts for the rich are going to fix that.” Well, I personally don’t think increasing taxes on the rich will fix the problem. There are not enough rich people in America (1%) that increasing their taxes will solve the deficit problem. Cutting expenses by eliminating stupid, costly programs, downsizing government, providing less service would go a long way to solving the debt. Would you think, people we would get it? If we cannot afford it, we don’t buy it.
Renee
November 28th, 2011
6:08 pm
Going down…
Chan
November 28th, 2011
6:14 pm
Horny Herman strikes again! Bottom line: this guy cannot be trusted. Things were pretty safe for him when he was on conservative talk radio speaking garbage. Cain needs to go away and stay away.
Hetch Hetchy
November 28th, 2011
6:15 pm
was it 9-9-9? or 6-9-6-9?
BRW
November 28th, 2011
6:16 pm
Pete, you like to throw around the idiot word too much. That’s why people will check your spelling and everything you say to prove your the idiot.
RIGHTISWRONG
November 28th, 2011
6:16 pm
Cain won’t have the Penn State Scandal to take all of the “Pop” this time. He is a crazy fool who can’t take “No” for an answer. He is a pimp and a scoundrel. Women like that he has made some money. He is Republican because he doesn’t want to be taxed fairly, thinks he is above most regular folks, thinks that he is white like his mentor Mr. Robert Woodruff who supported him and his family throughout his life, and he like doesn’t care about the poor or middle-class like the majority of the Rieght. 999 is a joke, he is a joke, the whole Rieght is a joke.
Obama will win in 2012 because these idiots make absolutely no sense and ALL have major character issues.
WHAT A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES!!!!!!
Tod
November 28th, 2011
6:18 pm
There are actually still people who are denying the reality that Cain is just another philanderer like Gingrich and many of these people claim to be religious and consequently would NEVER vote for Newt. How many cases have to come out, how strong does the proof have to be, before they finally admit that they have made a bad choice in Herman Cain?
To continue to support him is not, as the Bible says, being “steadfast”, it is being “stubborn” or, as some versions call it, “stiff-necked”. The former being a good thing, the latter, not.
Dirty Harry
November 28th, 2011
6:20 pm
Sounds like the crazy libs are really scared that their clown B.O. is gonna get hammered in the election next year. What a bunch of cowardly punks!
Would you think...?
November 28th, 2011
6:21 pm
“Cain should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!!
Adultery is illegal in Georgia.” DannyX…would you think that if that law was prosecuted, there would be Xtream prison overpopulation? They are all ready so over crowded, judges are setting convicts free, putting them on house arrest. You just cannot put every adulterer in prison! Get real man!
clem
November 28th, 2011
6:21 pm
it’s beginning to dawn on me what herman really meant by 999….guess it pays to advertise