08 Nov
Posted by MacRanger as News
According to two former employees of the NRA who have knowledge of the sexual harassment allegation by Karen Kraushaar, as well as the subsequent investigation by the NRA told me that the allegations were found to be “totally unsubstantiated”.
In fact the language is “specifically disparaging” of Kraushaar in the report. It’s reported that the $45,000 she received was in fact a severance pay.
All of these pop-up allegations tell us – those with any sense – that this is has been carefully orchestrated and in planning for weeks before it was brought to light. The Question now is just who is behind it.
We’re about to find that out.
UPDATE: Seems that Kraushaar is a bit of a serial complainer.
“WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment, saying she should be allowed to work from home after a serious car accident and accusing a manager of circulating a sexually charged email, The Associated Press has learned.
Karen Kraushaar, 55, filed the complaint while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department in late 2002 or early 2003, with the assistance of her lawyer, Joel Bennett, who also handled her earlier sexual harassment complaint against Cain in 1999. Three former supervisors familiar with Kraushaar’s complaint, which did not include a claim of sexual harassment, described it for the AP under condition of anonymity because the matter was handled internally by the agency and was not public.
To settle the complaint at the immigration service, Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, according to a former supervisor familiar with the complaint. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Kraushaar told the AP she considered her employment complaint “relatively minor” and she later dropped it.”
There is more coming on Krushaar later. Specifically on who put her up to her latest complaint. Hint. She so happens to be close friends with a particular presidential adviser who is know for her “shark practices”.
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One Response
retire05
November 9th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
1Mac, what is this other than more unsubstantiated claims, only on behalf of Cain. And they don’t tell us anything. Nada. Just that some are willing to defend Cain, and not the accuser.
You, I, NO ONE, knows the truth except Herman Cain and the women making the claims. I cannot believe that you, of all people, have fallen into the trap that is being set for you by the press. I am sick to death of all the “conservative” talking heads who have defended Herman Cain as if they have been privy to exactly what happened and the documentation held by both the NRA, and the women who signed those documents. Is this not exactly what the left did when they rallied around Bill Clinton and we wailed so loudly about that? Are conservatives not doing exactly what we blamed the left for doing, defending our guy with absolutely no documentation to back up our defense.
I am not going to sit in judgement of Herman Cain, or the women making the accusations. I don’t know the truth and probably never will. But I do know this; Cain is sucking all the oxygen out of the primary. And while we need to concentrate on defeating Obama, Herman Cain is remaining the headline. What should have been a 48 hour story, quelched immediately by Team Cain, who had forwarning from Politico itself, is now in its second week. Instead of talking about the economy, Fast and Furious, Solyndra, and a hot mike, it is Herman Cain who garners the headlines.
Hell, I don’t know if Herman Cain is telling the truth. I don’t know if ALL five women are telling the truth, and the bottom line is neither does anyone else. But I do know this: the longer this story goes on, the more damage it does to the Republican cause of kicking Obama out of office. And I know that sometimes it is better to fall on your sword than take the whole army down with you.
Herman Cain has fought the good fight. But he needs to end this; today. He is now, no matter how this turns out, damaged goods and he needs to step down and let others pick up the standard. I am sorry for him, for his supporters who have expressed so much faith in him, but politics is not bean bag and sometimes the good guy loses.
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