Mark Block, Herman Cain's Chief Of Staff, Blasts Perry Campaign On Fox News (VIDEO)

Mark Block, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain's Chief of Staff, blasted Rick Perry's campaign during an appearance Wednesday on Fox News.

"The actions of the Perry campaign are despicable," Block told Fox News' Bret Baier. Block was referring to the Cain campaign's belief that a Perry adviser who once worked for Cain during an unsuccessful 2004 Senate bid was behind the recent surfacing of sexual harassment allegations leveled at Cain.

Block told Baier that he "absolutely" believes the Perry campaign was behind the Politico story which initially brought the allegations to light.

"Rick Perry and his campaign owe Herman Cain and his family an apology. Both the Rick Perry campaign and Politico did the wrong thing by reporting something that wasn't true from anonymous sources, and like I said, they owe Herman Cain and his family an apology," said Block.

Block also explained, "I asked Mr. Cain directly on numerous occasions ‘was there anything to these allegations?’ and he looked me square it he eye and said no. Mr. Cain has never committed any sexual harassment. Period. End of story."

Click here for more details about the current tension between the Cain and Perry campaigns.

Comments

[Robert Lee Harrington]

12:33 AM on 11/04/2011

Mark Block:

....is an advisor with a long history of questionable tactics, reports the AP. He was banned from running Wisconsin campaigns for three years to settle accusations that he illegally coordinated a judge's 1997 re-election campaign with a special interest group; he was also accused of voter suppression last year. More from Block's record: He was arrested twice for drunk driving, faced foreclosure on two homes, was sued for an unpaid bill, and faced a tax warrant from the IRS.

.... Block has spent most of his life in politics—although after getting temporarily banned from campaigning in Wisconsin and fined $15,000 in 2001, he had to stock shelves at Target to make ends meet. But he returned to politics in 2005, having taken a job as the Wisconsin director of the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity. He also helped organize the Tea Party in the state, which was how he met Cain. "Mark doesn't go to the how-to-run a campaign guide book when deciding how to do things," says a conservative operative....

http://www.newser.com/story/132046/smoking-cain-aide-has-dubious-past.html?utm_medium=goognews&utm_campaign=chan3_feed

[pillgirl]

09:49 PM on 11/03/2011

actually, cain apparently owes a few people an apology...

[sfizi]

02:16 PM on 11/03/2011

Go find a job you will be unemployed soon

[Weeweed Up]

01:37 PM on 11/03/2011

Mr. Block, it is Mr. Cain's actions that are despicable, not the fact that they were exposed. Honor in politics is like honor among thieves - non-existent.

[Thisboy]

01:05 PM on 11/03/2011

Wait until Perry's women start coming forward. It is quite common for men finding themselves in a position of wealth to use that position as a free pass to use others as nothing but spoils of wealth for the taking . They'll no doubt carry that arrogance of wealth into their leadership style if elected.

[Thisboy]

12:58 PM on 11/03/2011

I don't know. I think running for POTUS while simultaneously doing a book tour for one's own profit is "dispicable".

[Lloyd Pinchback]

12:39 PM on 11/03/2011

If we revisit the recent Mark Block Cain campaign ad, there’s been some question as to the possible hidden message behind the obvious one. The most puzzling scene in the ad is the close-up at the very end as Block casually yet mystically puffs on a cigarette. It’s been many years since cigarette smoking has been considered a publicly acceptable past-time or habit to be practiced, admired, or promoted. What was the real point of Block’s cosmic slop?

Perhaps he was subliminally letting us know that Herman Cain’s presidential run was headed for an absolute “burnout”. The ad did leave an ominous aftertaste causing many to question its ultimate intent. It was as if Block were signaling, “Stay tuned for some really breaking news, folks.”

And now to emphatically lay all blame for the outing on Perry during a FOX television interview, without offering real proof of Perry’s involvement, is a bit conspicuous and suspicious. Could Block be “the Judas” that bags Cain causing his presidential campaign to unravel due to his unseemly, tainted past? The idea is really not so far fetched when you consider the ugly history of Republican poli-tricks. Mark Block could actually be the inside man, a double-agent operating for the national GOP to discredit and crush once and for all Herman Cain’s presidential bid. Food for thought.

[Everett Lee]

12:38 PM on 11/03/2011

I shouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if the Perry camp is behind the efforts to smear Herman Cain with those sexual harrassment claims. That's the sort of thing right-wing Texas Republicans do, and have been doing for decades now.

Don't blame me, though. I am a proud Texas Democrat who voted for Bill White for Governor in 2010.

[merrymico]

12:03 PM on 11/03/2011

Pass the popcorn, Xtra butter for me please.

[mistahshow]

11:52 AM on 11/03/2011

I agree, Perry should apologize for Cain sexually harassing women who work under him. It is the proper thing to do.

[Lloyd Pinchback]

11:36 AM on 11/03/2011

Isn't it somewhat conspicuous that Herman Cain’s Chief of Staff, Mark Block, seems so absolutely sure that the Perry campaign is the source of the sexual harassment leaks leveled at Cain? Other than circumstantial evidence, how he know? In the strange world of Republican politics, it is not too far fetched that Mr. Block himself could be the very source supplying the details since he’s been aware of the charges against Cain since 2003. Think about it: Block’s on-air accusations against Rick Perry’s campaign without empirical proof of guilt is simply too convenient, audacious, and too sensational for the curious pallet to ignore.

In his interview on FOX, Block insisted that “Rick Perry and his campaign owe Herman Cain and his family an apology.” Oh, really? An apology from Perry would be an admission of guilt. Curiously, however, there is a current Perry campaign staffer who previously worked on Cain’s campaign, which is the reasoning behind Block’s stinging accusations. Of course to some, his reasoning makes sense absent of any other known possibilities.

But again, the tag seems too convenient, and why not take advantage of that convenience if that would deflect attention away from himself? There’s a potential strategy here to sabotage Cain’s campaign to inexorably dump him from the GOP’s “wanna-be president” list. Oddly, such is the very nature of Republican politics: getting down and dirty to achieve a goal. The GOP’s short-term goal: dump Herman Cain before his popularity grows any further.

[joetherealist]

11:21 AM on 11/03/2011

"It's the whistleblower's fault!", says the nut in the bizarre cigarette smoking commercial. You could not mke this stuff up, this campaign has become so surreal.

[mjclear]

11:10 AM on 11/03/2011

Mark Block accusing anyone of improper political conduct is like having John Boehner extol the benefits of compromise: more than ironic. Mr. Block was ousted from Wisconsin politics for three years for a scheme involving voter fraud. Currently, he and Mr. Cain are under investigation again for improper use of campaign funds. Mr. Block's veracity on any subject is unquestionable: he is most definitely a liar.

[mollymac]

10:50 AM on 11/03/2011

Well, president Clinton denied initially as well. Who wants to admit their infractions to anyone?

[Lloyd Pinchback]

12:54 PM on 11/03/2011

Apparently it's been forgotten what Bill Clinton initially denied and why he was impeached. It was not a denial of sexaul harassment: it was deying that he had sex in the Oval Office with "that woman", Monica Lewinsky. And Monica never charged Bill with harassment.

It was the blond from Arkansas, Juanita [?], that charged Bill clinton with sexual harassment. That case was never proven to be factual and the claimant didn't receive a dime for her claim. She only got loads of publicity, no more than that. Where is she today I wonder?

[Kittypost]

10:45 AM on 11/03/2011

The attacks the Republicans have been so childish that I've been waiting for Perry to dump maple syrup on Cain's head, then Cain's response would be a pizza-pie to the face.