The Daily Beast landed an interview with Ginger White, the woman who some believe dealt the death blow to Herman Cain’s campaign, and has published on line a lengthy story about White’s decision to disclose her alleged 13-year relationship with the candidate.
Leslie Bennetts’ story explores several subjects:
* How Cain’s “arrogance” persuaded her to go public
* How Cain thought the ‘man was always right’
* The pompous way in which Cain viewed himself
* And why she thinks Cain’s wife, Gloria, engaged in willful self-denial.
Bennetts’ piece indicates that it was Cain’s arrogant, dismissive attitude toward the several women who accused him of sexual harassment that caused White to come forward.
Here’s a portion of the story: “It was Cain’s public disparagement of those women that triggered White’s decision to talk, she said. ‘I wasn’t surprised when women came out with sexual harassment allegations,’ White said. ‘My initial reaction was, ‘They’re not lying,’ because he feels as if he can approach any women, say whatever he wants to say, and they’re going to be OK with that, just because he’s Herman Cain. He’s very sure of himself. He has this arrogance about him. He feels as if, when he walks across the room, all eyes are upon him. Herman Cain loves Herman Cain.”
Indeed, it was Cain’s public disparagement of those women that triggered White’s decision to talk, she said. “I wasn’t surprised when women came out with sexual harassment allegations,” White said. “My initial reaction was, ‘They’re not lying,’ because he feels as if he can approach any women, say whatever he wants to say, and they’re going to be OK with that, just because he’s Herman Cain. He’s very sure of himself. He has this arrogance about him. He feels as if, when he walks across the room, all eyes are upon him. Herman Cain loves Herman Cain.”
Cain’s attorney, L. Lin Wood, didn’t help his client much when he had this reaction to White’s quote: “I think anyone who has had the opportunity to meet Mr. Cain would not disagree with that general description.” Obviously, Wood knows a lot more than he is saying, as evidenced by the initial statement he released in response to White’s claims of an affair, which said it was a relationship between adults that should remain private.
Benett’s piece also portrays the impact the uproar over her allegations have had on White, and her struggle to make it on her own, without Cain’s financial assistance.
Here’s a taste of that aspect of the story:
“For White, an Atlanta single mother of two, the cost of telling her story has been devastating; so far, she said it has included her job, her privacy, and the financial support that Cain acknowledged having given her. ‘My coming out has caused me to have no more money from Herman Cain and no offers of help from anyone,’ she said.
“(She has experienced) people camping out in front of her apartment and hounding her every move. Desperate to evade the onslaught, she resorted to donning disguises; (Her attorney) said she even dressed as a man for one their meetings.”
Read the entire story here.
