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米大統領選の共和党候補者の中でもっとも有力だったハーマン・ケイン氏が、不倫疑惑で大統領出馬を断念することがわかった。きっかけは、ケイン氏と13年間不倫を続けていた女性、ジンジャー・ホワイトさんがFoxニュースのインタビューで不倫をすっぱ抜いたことにある。

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ジョージア州在住の失業中で２児のシングル・マザーでもあるジンジャー・ホワイトさんは、不倫は恥ずべきことなので、このようにメディアの前で語るのは避けたかったと言っているが、彼女の友人がメディアに電話をかけまくり、罠にはまってしまい、ローカル・メディアのインタビューを受けることになったということになっている。

以下、二人の関係を語るホワイトさんのインタビューを要約してみよう。

ホワイトさんがケイン氏に初めて会ったのは、ケイン氏が９０年後半にルイジアナで全米レストラン協会（National Restaurant Association)のプレジデントとして演説を行ったときのこと。彼の演説に感動したホワイトさんは、演説の後、ケイン氏と一緒にお酒を飲んで、ホテルに誘われた。そのとき、ケイン氏はホワイトさんに「又お目にかかれたらと思う。あなたは、とても美しい。このフレンドシップを続けたい。」と言った。そして、ケイン氏は、ホテルの部屋で彼のカレンダーを取り出し、次の講演予定があるパーム・スプリングにホワイトさんを招待した。こうして彼らの不倫関係は始まった。

ホワイトさんは、ケイン氏が結婚していることも知っていたが、平凡な日常生活にあきあきしていたので、ケイン氏との関係にとても興味を持ったそうだ。

ケイン氏は、ホワイトさんに彼のサイン入り新著『リーダーシップは常識だ』を渡し、そこには、「ミスG,君はすでに大きな違いを作った。次の目標を追求するために、がんばれ。』と書かれていた。

そして、それから１３年間、彼は演説のたびに全米中に彼女を呼び寄せ、豪華なプレゼントをあげたり、バックヘッドのリッツ・カールトンに滞在したり、フォー・シーズン・レストランで食事をしたという。ホワイトさんは、交際中、ケイン氏は決して彼女に嫌がらせをしたり、いやな思いをさせることはなかったと語っている。

ホワイトさんの前にも数人からセクハラなどで訴えられていたケイン氏だが、ホワイトさんは、ケイン氏が大統領選に公式に出馬するまで不倫の事実を隠し、様子をみることにした。しかし、デイヴィッド・レターマンのレイト・ショーなどでケイン氏が、ケイン氏を訴えたこれらの女性に逆襲していたのを見て、訴えた女性が気の毒になったという。

ホワイトさんによれば、ケイン氏との肉体関係は、彼が大統領選挙に出馬する直前の今から８ヶ月前に終わったが、携帯電話の請求書を見せながら、いまでもケイン氏と連絡をとりあっているという。それもこのインタビューの後には終わるだろうと語った。ケイン氏の私的な携帯電話番号と見られる番号との電話やテキスト・メッセージでのやり取りは６１回記録されていた。Foxニュースの記者がその番号に電話してみると、ケイン氏が電話に出たという。

下の『ハフィントン・ポスト』の記事中にあるヴィデオでも見られるが、ケイン氏は、ホワイトさんに生活を支援するためにお金を渡していたことは認めているが、不倫関係があったことは否定している。だが、党や家族を傷つけ、又多くの人々に迷惑をかけるという理由で、出馬を断念した。

フェイスブックには、ケイン氏の妻、グロリア・ケインさんを支援するページ「I Stand with 」もあり、今現在４９６名がこのページをお気に入りとしている。こんな素敵な奥さんがありながら、不倫するとは、本当にけしからん奴だ。

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それにしても、あの白人至上主義の共和党が、オバマ大統領に対抗してか、黒人の大統領選挙候補者を立てようとしていたことが驚きだったが、その候補者がこのようなお粗末な不倫疑惑で出馬を断念したということにも驚いた。しかし、ホワイトさんもケイン氏は大統領には向かないと言っているとおり、このような不誠実な人間が大統領となっても、第二のミスター・クリントンになるのは目に見えていたので、断念してよかったと思う。その前に、共和党からの候補者がオバマ大統領に勝てるとはとうてい思えないが・・・・。現在、ケイン氏が脱落した後、共和党の最有力候補者となったのは、最有力候補ニュート・ギングリッチ氏だ。それにミット・ロムニー氏が続いている。オバマ対ギングリッチの一騎打ちとなるか。

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Georgia Woman Claims 13-Year Affair with Herman Cain
Ginger White's exclusive interview with the I-Team
Updated: Tuesday, 29 Nov 2011, 4:56 PM EST
Published : Monday, 28 Nov 2011, 5:01 PM EST
By DALE RUSSELL/FOX 5 I-Team

ATLANTA, Ga. - An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, FOX 5 senior I-Team reporter Dale Russell sat down with Ginger White, who had a story to tell.

“I'm not proud,” White told Russell. “I didn't want to come out with this. I did not.”

White was worried a political tsunami was headed her way. So, she decided to head it off, by confessing she was involved in a 13-year-long affair with presidential hopeful Herman Cain.

“It was pretty simple,” White said. “It wasn't complicated. I was aware that he was married. And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship.”

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.

“’I'd like to see you again,’” White said Cain told her. “’You are beautiful to me, and I would love for us to continue this friendship.’”

She says in his hotel room, he pulled out a calendar and invited her to meet him in Palm Springs. She accepted, and she says the affair began.

“He made it very intriguing,” White told FOX 5. “It was fun. It was something that took me away from my humdrum life at the time. And it was exciting.”

She says he gave her his newly-published book, Leadership is Common Sense, and he wrote: “Miss G, you have already made a 'big difference!’ Stay focused as you pursue your next destination."

She says during the next 13 years, he would fly her to cities where he was speaking and he lavished her with gifts. She says they often stayed at the Ritz Carlton in Buckhead and dined at The Four Seasons restaurant. She says he never harassed her, never treated her poorly, and was the same man you see on the campaign trail.

“Very much the same, very much confident, very much sure of himself,” White said, describing Cain. “Very arrogant in a playful sometimes way. Very, ah -- Herman Cain loves Herman Cain.”

When his new book, CEO of SELF, came out in 2001, she says Cain once again autographed it for her writing, "'Friends are forever! Everything else is a bonus.'"

When asked if it was fair to say the relationship is going on even now, White said, “I think it is safe to say that after this interview, that will be the end of it. Yes, we have a friendship now.”

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.

“We've never worked together,” said White. “And I can't imagine someone phoning or texting me for the last two and a half years, just because.”

We texted the number and Herman Cain called us back. He told us he "knew Ginger White" but said these are "more false allegations." He said she had his number because he was "trying to help her financially.”

She says she planned on keeping the relationship a secret while Cain made his run for the White House until she and her family watched reports of different women who had accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment. She says she was not surprised by the allegations, but was bothered by the way Cain fought back, attacking the woman, including during an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.

“It bothered me that they were being demonized, sort of, they were treated as if they were automatically lying, and the burden of proof was on them,” White said. “I felt bad for them.”

We received a phone tip from someone who knew Ginger White. That person claimed Ms. White was having an affair with Herman Cain. The tipster also called a number of other national media outlets who reached out to her. White told FOX 5, she felt trapped.

“I wanted to give my side, before it was thrown out there and made out to be something filthy,” said White. “Some people will look at this and say that is exactly what it is. I'm sorry for that.”

And so she talked. Before our interview, we checked into Ginger White's background. We found she filed a sexual harassment claim against an employer in 2001. That case was settled.

We also found a bankruptcy filing nearly 23 years ago in Kentucky, and a number of eviction notices here in DeKalb County over the past six years. The most recent happened this month.

Ms. White says she has been unemployed, and she is a single mom with two kids struggling to make ends meet.

I don't think that makes me out to be a bad person,” White said. “It makes me out to be one of the millions of people right now trying to keep a roof over their head.”

We also found a lawsuit filed by a former business partner, Kimberly Vay, who once sought a "stalking temporary protective order" against Ms. White for "repeated e-mails/texts threatening lawsuit and defamation of character." The case was dismissed; but was followed by a libel lawsuit against Ms. White. A judge entered an order in favor of Kimberly Vay because Ms. White failed to respond to the lawsuit.

When asked why, under those circumstances, her claims against Cain should be believed, White said, “Because I admit it. Whatever happened with Kim happened. Just as there would make no sense for me to come out with these allegations against Herman if it absolutely wasn't true.”

Her attorney, Ed Buckley, says she didn't answer the lawsuit because she didn't know about it, and she thought her business dispute had been settled with negotiations.

Ginger White says she expects to be scrutinized and attacked by Herman Cain and the media, but she felt she needed to tell her story before anyone else told it for her.

“I didn't want to do this, but it was something I felt at the end of the day was the right thing to do,” said White. “Is it going to hurt a lot people? Yes. I'm sure I will be one of them.”

Late this afternoon, Cain’s attorney, Lin Wood, sent FOX 5 the following statement:

"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."

下記は、ケイン氏がこの騒動の後に支持者に送ったメール。ホワイトさんがメディアで語ったことは、全て作り話であり、ホワイトさんのことを友情を悪用した問題のあるアトランタのビジネス・ウーマンと表現している。ホワイトさんのことは知っており、経済的に援助したことも事実だが、これまでに援助したのはホワイトさんだけではないと主張。

ケイン氏は、この時点ではまだ大統領選出馬をあきらめておらず、この晩もミシガンのヒルズデール・カレッジで候補者として外交政策と国家安全保障計画について語ることを支援者に知らせ、これからも支援をお願いしたいと頼んでいる。

Ginger White gives another TV interview, Herman Cain undeterred

Here's the Cain email:

Dear Patriots and Supporters,

As you probably heard yesterday, a troubled Atlanta business woman used national media outlets to promulgate a fabricated, unsubstantiated story about a 13 year affair with me. I am writing you today to assure you that this woman's story is completely false.

I do know Ms. White. I have helped her financially at times over the past few years, just as I have helped many friends and acquaintances throughout the years. I thought Ms. White was a friend in need of a supportive hand to better her life.

Ms. White has made it apparent that she was abusing the friendship.

But now I am asking for your friendship. I am also asking for your prayers and support. This is a trying time for my family, my campaign, and for me. It is also a trying time for our country as we are all distracted from the truly important issues facing our nation.

This evening I have an important in Hillsdale, Michigan, where I will be outlining my foreign policy and national security plan. While recent events have taken a toll on me, the people in the audience this evening will not know it. I will deliver my message with vigor and enthusiasm.

Let me assure you, I am not deterred. America's future is too important. We will continue on this journey to make America great once again.

Thank you and God bless.

Sincerely,
Herman Cain

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