Atlanta businesswoman Ginger White told MyFox Atlanta in an interview aired Monday she had a 13-year-long affair with GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain.
“I'm not proud,” she told Fox's Dale Russell over the Thanksgiving weekend. “I didn't want to come out with this. I did not.”
White described the affair as "simple" and "uncomplicated."
"I was aware that he was married," she said. "And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship.”
Fox reported:
Ginger White says she met Herman Cain in the late 90s in Louisville, Kentucky, when as president of the National Restaurant Association, he made a presentation. She was impressed. She says they shared drinks afterwards and he invited her back to his hotel room.
According to White, the affair ended shortly before Cain announced his run for the GOP nomination.
She says the physical relationship ended about eight months ago, right before Cain announced he was running for president. But the communication did not. When we asked for any corroborating evidence, she pointed us to her cell phone contacts. One name: Herman Cain.
She showed us some of her cell phone bills that included 61 phone calls or text messages to or from a number starting with 678. She says it is Herman Cain's private cell phone. The calls were made during four different months-- calls or texts made as early as 4:26 in the early morning, and as late as 7:52 at night. The latest were in September of this year.
“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.”
In an interview at CNN, Cain denied the affair, but not the relationship.
"It is someone that I know who is an acquaintance that I thought was a friend," he said shortly before White's interview aired.
"I don't have anything to hide," Cain said.
Cain also said he is in the race to win and vowed not to drop out “as long as my wife is behind me."
Hot Air adds that "if there really is documentary evidence backing up the accuser’s claim, his credibility’s shattered."
More than that, if the allegation proves to be true, Cain's candidacy is over.
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