Texas Gov. Rick Perry appeared on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” Friday to discuss his campaign and his plans to overhaul Washington — and the question of how Politico and other news outlets learned about sexual harassment allegations once leveled against Herman Cain.
Cavuto ran a clip from an earlier “Your World” broadcast during which Cain speculated that the information came from the Perry campaign.
“We don’t know for sure, but when we look at all of these coincidences — it is a coincident that my Senate political consultant now works for Rick Perry,” Cain said, referring to Curt Anderson, who worked on the Georgian’s losing 2004 U.S. Senate campaign. “At first I said, it could have been him. The fact that there is a super PAC that supports Rick Perry, the head of that used to do some work for the Restaurant Association,” Cain added in reference to Perry supporter Chris Wilson.
Pressed to say it was the Perry campaign, Cain said then: “There are simply too many coincidences.”
Perry responded Friday that Cain’s charges are wholly inaccurate, and that he would have fired anyone who had anything to do with planting the information.
“He shouldn’t [blame me],” Perry told Cavuto. “My staff has been asked straight up and if anyone had anything to do with that I told them, I said we’ll fire them. Everybody is still working on my campaign so you know just straight up address these issues an put them behind you and get on down the road.”
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