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PICKET: (video) Sharpton calls Cain's explanation of sex harassment cases too 'inconsistent'
Rev. Al Sharpton spoke to the Washington Times affiliated radio show America's Morning News on Monday and spoke about his thoughts on Herman Cain as well as Occupy Wall Street.
PICKET: Cain accuser wants tantamount to web anonymity
In any web forum where people can give themselves any name and comment about issues, politics, religion, etc...it is interesting to see how embolden many become when they are comfortable that their true identities will not be revealed. The nastiest remarks and rumors can often be floated in a number of social media dens and commentary spaces. It seems as if one of the women who has accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment from the 1990's wants that special web anonymity in real life too
PICKET: (video) Talk radio's Levin rallies AFP audience
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin charged up the Americans for Prosperity crowd on Saturday morning. Mr. Levin was the keynote speaker at AFP's Defending the American Dream Summit.
PICKET: (video) Occupy protesters attempt to bust into DC event
Occupy DC protesters attempted to bust into the Washington DC Convention Center on Friday night, where an Americans for Prosperity dinner was taking place. Protesters aimed their ire at AFP donors Charles and David Koch throughout the night. Interestingly, David walked through the crowd of protesters with friends and associates of his and went completely unnoticed by the Occupy DC crowd.
PICKET: Attorney of Cain accuser - 'If the media chooses to publish her name that’s the media’s business'
Joel Bennett, the lawyer who is representing one of the women claiming that Herman Cain sexually harassed her during both of their tenures at the National Restaurant Association (NRA) in the 1990's, spoke to the press outside of his Georgetown offices late Friday afternoon. Mr. Bennett told reporters his client, a federal government employee who has been married for 26 years, wants to remain anonymous.
PICKET: Cain camp launches Iowa fund
The Herman Cain campaign launched it's latest initiative on Wednesday night known as the Iowa Fund. The Cain campaign is moving forward towards the Iowa caucuses. According to the Des Moines Register, Mr. Cain was the leading GOP candidate in the Republican primary presidential field in Iowa over the weekend.
PICKET: Source - Rahm Emanuel involved in Cain sexual harassment accuser attacks
Herman Cain's campaign is revealing suspicions about who is behind the story regarding the former unidentified employees who accused Mr. Cain of sexual harassment in the late 1990's.
PICKET: Dems to propose transaction tax for financial firms
Bloomberg is reporting, "Two U.S. lawmakers will introduce measures to impose a transaction tax on financial firms that resembles a proposal released by the European Union."
PICKET: Cain campaign has biggest online fundraising day
Two sources within the Cain campaign are telling me that although Mr. Cain was hit with sexual harassment accusations in the 90's from two females who worked for him, when he was president of the National Restaurant Association, Monday's online campaign fundraising for the campaign was the best ever up to this point.
PICKET: (video) Axelrod ponders 'GM is alive Bin Laden is dead' campaign theme for Obama
David Axelrod, Obama 2012 campaign aide, spoke with Washington Times affiliated radio show America's Morning News about how the Obama campaign is preparing for the upcoming election year.
PICKET: Cain responds to nameless sexual harassment accusers from his past
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is on the defensive after the Politico reported Sunday that at least two female employees who worked at the of the National Restaurant Association, when Mr. Cain headed the trade organization in the 1990's, accused the former God Father's Pizza CEO of "inappropriate behavior" towards them, which led to the women exiting the organization.
PICKET: Occupy protesters relegated to a 'stop snitching' policy on crime within encampments
Crime in Occupy Wall Street's encampment Zucotti Park might be worse than the public realizes.
PICKET: (video) Rangel stays away from Dems who run away from Obama; Nadler runs away from TWT opinion
Capitol Hill Democrats on the campaign trail are avoiding President Barack Obama out of fear that the president's struggling poll numbers with voters could very well affect their own re-election prospects.
PICKET: Occupy protest sites continue to attract dangerous criminal element
Occupy protests across the country are becoming better known for the crimes happening at the protest sites as opposed to the confusing political messages the occupy movement is putting out through their signs and daily marches.
PICKET: Former Dem congressman and CBC member accused of looking to switch parties
Former Democratic Alabama Congressman Artur Davis ruffled feathers on Capitol Hill last week, when he wrote an October 17 Op-Ed for the Montgomery Advertiser where he reversed his long time position on voter identification.
