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As if there weren’t enough problems for Herman Cain today, there’s a pretty damning report out of Wisconsin that suggests — actually, it comes very close to establishing — that a not-for-profit run by Cain campaign manager Mark Block was paying for Cain’s campaign expenses earlier this year after Cain had already set up his official presidential campaign committee, which would be a violation of all kinds of election and campaign finance laws.

Herman Cain and AEI are keeping this morning’s appearance strictly on the topic he was scheduled to address: tax policy. “I will take all of the arrows later,” Cain said, apparently referring to another appearance later today, at the National Press Club.

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TPM, and a lot of others, has been reporting for the last few weeks on how Herman Cain doesn’t have any kind of campaign apparatus in the traditional sense. Boy, does that show now. You would expect past sexual harassment allegations to get a thorough vetting from within the campaign very early on in the process, by which I mean the campaign would do its own due diligence and, if not figure out the underlying facts, at least determine the scope of what is known and unknown, knowable and unknowable, and have a plan for how to respond when the time came. From reading Politico‘s account of the back and forth with the campaign over the 10 days before it published last night’s story, it’s clear the Cain campaign was scrambling to determine the nature and extent of the allegations. From a strictly practical political perspective, that’s an awfully bad position to be in. Read More