Cain’s Lawyer To Media: An Alleged Consensual Affair Is None Of Your Business!

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Herman Cain and his attorney Lin Wood appear to be employing very different response strategies to the new accusation by Atlanta businesswoman Ginger White, who is claiming that she had an affair with Cain for 13 years.

Cain appeared Monday afternoon on CNN, and denied any and all accusations. But when the local Fox station in Atlanta ran the story, they included a statement given to them by Cain’s attorney Lin Wood — in which Wood does not expressly deny the claim, but instead says that an alleged consensual affair would be beyond the pale of public inquiry.

Wood’s statement does not include any express denial, nor even an acknowledgement of Cain himself denying the story.

“Mr. Cain has been informed today that your television station plans to broadcast a story this evening in which a female will make an accusation that she engaged in a 13-year long physical relationship with Mr. Cain. 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.

Mr. Cain has alerted his wife to this new accusation and discussed it with her. He has no obligation to discuss these types of accusations publicly with the media and he will not do so even if his principled position is viewed unfavorably by members of the media.”

Here are the highlights of Cain’s CNN interview:

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