I thought this ^ was harsh, but I do suppose a whore is someone who takes money for sex to "supplement her income."
What a piece of work this woman is.
From The Daily Beast:
White confessed that Cain wasn’t the only man who helped her financially; her work history and her sex life have long been intermingled in complex and contradictory ways, she said. “I have dealt with the problem of sexual harassment since I was 19—maybe not at such a severe level, but I’ve always dealt with it,” she said. “In my world, women are treated as if they were a piece of meat. The shorter your skirt was and the prettier you were, the more they wanted you in front of the client. You’d go home and feel like, ‘I couldn’t take enough showers to wash this filth off me.’ My job was to make sure people were being treated fairly; every day I was going to work to fight for this. Some of the men in higher positions didn’t like that, and they gave me so much pushback.”
But some also gave her money. “There are good men in corporate America, and bad men in corporate America and those bad men take advantage of women in fragile situations—women who are struggling,” White said. “I’ve supported my kids, and I never wanted to let my kids go without. When I was having trouble making a payment on something, there was this powerful man saying, ‘I’ll help you out.’ I remember a time when I was looking for a job, and I became separated from my first husband, John, and somebody said, ‘All you have to do is get in front of the owner of this company, and he will give you a job, because you’re pretty. And he did. The owner offered me a job, and by the end of the day, he asked me out and said, ‘I can help you with some extra money.’ So that’s what happened, for probably six months or so. I wasn’t the only one he was ‘helping.’ And then I started getting promoted on my own, and shortly after that, I said, I want a change. When I first started seeing Herman Cain, I lived in Louisville, but within a year I got a job offer here in Atlanta. I told Herman and said, ‘I may need help getting there—will you help me?’ And he said yes.”
For White, getting men to supplement her income that way “started becoming a game,” she said. “It was easy for me to get help like that. It makes you a bit cold. You have to be just as clever as they are, just as cold as they are, just as calculating as they are—and sometimes beat them at their own game. But I don’t want to be depicted as a woman who sleeps with men for money. I am not that woman. There have been a lot of men who sensed vulnerability and dangled a carrot, but I am not a bad person. I am a loving mother who has always wanted to make her own way and give her kids the best. I never wanted to take a handout, and I’ve said no more times than I said yes. I’ve said no more times than you can write down.”
As White disclosed such details, however, her own lawyer was clearly concerned about her forthrightness. “The difference between her and a lot of other people is that she has been extraordinarily candid about it, to her own detriment,” Buckley said.
According to White, the relentless sexual pressures that followed her from job to job eventually motivated her to start the cycling business so she could work as a fitness instructor. “I felt really good, because I didn’t have to wear makeup and high heels and be looked at and have men drool,” she said. “I could go to work with no makeup and no heels, wearing workout clothes; I could go and make women feel they were beautiful just being themselves.”
But that business failed, and left White embroiled in litigation with a former business partner.
White’s troubled economic history also includes a bankruptcy filing 23 years ago, in Kentucky, and several eviction notices in Atlanta over the last six years. Her ongoing financial crises repeatedly led her to seek help from Cain, she said.
Longprime, I wondered that too, but in her interview, she said that the press approached her and said the story was coming out and they gave her the opportunity to get ahead of it. She said there were family members and others in her community who knew about the affair so word was out. It seems she had no intention of coming out with the story otherwise.
I disagree. Of course someone who commits adultery with a married person is doing something selfish and wrong, but there is no comparison. To have a 13 year affair while you are married, to come home to your wife and lie to her, to betray her trust for such a long time is a totally different animal. One person is betraying an ideal, the other person is betraying the person who they have committed to for the rest of their lives. And a long standing affair is way worse than a one time shot. That requires continuous betrayal.
I really like Cain and would have voted for him, but he is clearly toast. Republicans are not democrats; they cannot so easily overlook major character faults like rampant adultery. I don't believe any of the women who claim Cain victimized them. The one woman who claimed a 13 year affair should be ashamed of herself and crawl back into her hole. She knew he was married but that didn't seem to stop her. She is just as bad as Cain with respect to adultery.
I know what you mean about feeling bad for her. I have a feeling more will be coming out, and she seems to not have had a clue.
I listened to some of the interview from the lady who had the affair with Cain, and she is 100% believeable. There's no way she's not telling the truth. I feel badly for her too. She seems like a very honest, classy lady, with alot of regret. Too bad good people get caught up in such things.
