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Karen Kraushaar called Cain a "monster,"

by The 1 | November 9, 2011 at 04:07 pm

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A former supervisor of Karen Kraushaar, one of the women to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s, said Wednesday that Kraushaar recently described the Republican presidential candidate as a "monster."

Maria Cardona, Kraushaar's former supervisor at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), called Kraushaar when she learned her former employee was one of the women to accuse the White House hopeful of harassment. Cardona recalled the conversation in which Kraushaar thanked her former boss for her support during a difficult period in her life.

"Maria, now you know why I have always been so grateful to you, you saved me from this monster," Kraushaar said, according to Cardona. Cardona was the person who hired Kraushaar to work at the INS. Cardona now works as a Democratic strategist for the Dewey Square Group and served as a senior adviser to the Hillary Clinton for President campaign.

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at 16:09 on November 9th, 2011

Gloria Allred: Herman Cain trying to "crush women" who come forward

Gloria Allred, the lawyer for one of the women who has come forward accusing Herman Cain of inappropriate sexual behavior, said Wednesday she thinks Cain is using defensive tactics designed to "crush women" - and that if all the allegations against him are true, Cain is "not only a serial sexual harasser but also a serial liar."

Allred represents Sharon Bialek, the first woman to publicly level harassment charges against Cain. In an interview with Jan Crawford for the "CBS Evening News," the celebrity lawyer defended her client - and commended Bialek's "courage" in coming forward.

"I think it took a great deal of courage for her to step into the public square, so to speak - especially where it's such a high-stakes issue," she said.

She said Bialek had chosen to speak out in order to "encourage other women to come forward" and to give Cain the opportunity to "acknowledge what he has done."

"She is very disappointed that he has not taken what she has called a 'great opportunity' that he has offered him," Allred continued. "And instead he appears to be, in my opinion, at this point, engaged in a take-no-prisoners scorched earth policy, which appears designed to try to crush women who come forward."

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at 16:11 on November 9th, 2011

Sharon Bialek: Herman Cain knows who I am

Sharon Bialek, the first woman to step forward publicly with sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain, suggested Wednesday the presidential contender was lying yesterday when he said he doesn't remember Bialek.

On MSNBC Wednesday, Bialek recounted an incident, which others have said they witnessed, in which she approached Cain at a Tea Party rally.

"I simply grasped his elbow and leaned in towards him to acknowledge he knew exactly who I was," she said. "He acknowledged who I was."

Bialek declined to reveal what she said to Cain at the event, but she said, "It was simply a few statements to jar his memory ... That was only a month ago."

At a press conference on Tuesday, Cain said he did not recall ever seeing Bialek before she came forward with her allegations on Monday. "I tried to remember if I recognized her, and I didn't. I tried to remember if I remembered that name, and I didn't," he said.

Bialek said she was "very disappointed but not surprised" by Cain's response, which she said "disrespected me and millions of other women across the country who are violated in the same way in the workplace."

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at 16:16 on November 9th, 2011

Karen Kraushaar, one of the women accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment, will hold a joint press conference with accuser Sharon Bialek even if other women who also complained about the Republican presidential hopeful won’t come forward, Kraushaar’s attorney said Wednesday.

Joel Bennett told reporters that Kraushaar is attempting to reach one of the women, a former National Restaurant Association employee who has been identified as residing in New Jersey, but that he didn’t know how to contact a fourth former employee who was revealed but not identified last week by the Associated Press.