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Jobs,corporatetax
policy take center
stage at Idaho debate
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday. The Georgia
businessman has repeatedly denied allegations of sexual harassment.
Woman accusing Cain
wants opportunity to talk
Two women have
reportedly accused
Cain of harassment
The lawyer for one of two
women who reportedly accused
Republican presidential can-
didate Herman Cain of sexual
harassment in the 1990s said yes-
terday he had asked their former
employer to waive an agreement
and allow her to talk openly about
her allegations.
Joel P. Bennett, a Washing-
ton lawyer who specializes in
employment cases, said in media
interviews that his client wants
the National Restaurant Asso-
ciation to waive confidentiality so
she can respond to Cain's claims
that the complaints were "totally
baseless and totally false."
A spokeswoman for the'res-
taurant association, Sue Hensley,
said last night that the group had
not been contacted by Bennett.
Cain, a Georgia businessman
best known as the former CEO
of Godfather's Pizza, was head of
the association at the time of the
complaints
Bennett told The Associated
Press he would have more to say
after he meets with his client
Wednesday. In an interview last
night on CNN, he said he stood
behind his client. "I know her
very well," he said, "and I'm sure
she would not make a false com-
plaint."
The New York Times reported
last night that the National Res-
taurant Association gave a female
employee a year's salary in sever-
ance pay, $35,000, after she said
an encounter with Cain made her
uncomfortable working there.
The newspaper cited three peo-
ple with knowledge of the pay-
ment to the woman, who was not
Bennett's client.
One of Cain's rivals, Rep.
Michele Bachmann of Minneso-
ta, appeared to take a jab at Cain
when she met last night with
supporters at a Baptist church in
Marshalltown, Iowa.
Though not mentioning Cain
by name as she stood in the pul-
pit, Bachmann said: "This is the
year when we can't have any sur-
prises with our candidate. We
have to have a candidate that we
can know, when we put them into
office, we can trust them with
their record of what they have
done and who they are."
Cain, meanwhile, spent yester-
day much as he did Monday, going
from interview to interview to
defend himself. There was time
for politicking, too: He met last
night with Republican senators
at a restaurant near the Capitol as
part of a meet-and-greet strategy
with lawmakers whose support
he is seeking.
Cain's contradictory expla-
nations - he also denies he has
changed his story - have raised
questions about details of the
allegations and about his current
ability to manage a crisis in the
national spotlight. The accusa-
tions surfaced just as had risen in
national polls in the GOP nomi-
nation fight two months before
the leadoff Iowa caucuses.
He said last night on Fox News
that he believes there are some
Democrats who want him defeat-
ed because he's an unconven-
tional candidate "achieving some
unexpected, unconventional
results," and there could be some
on the right "who do not want
to see me because I am not the
establishment candidate."
Cain, who is black, said he
believes race is also involved
"but we don't have any evidence
to support it." He added: "Rela-
tive to the left, I believe that race
is a bigger driving factor. I don't
think it's a driving factor on the
right."
Romney, Cain
absent from
Republican debate
One by one, five Republican
candidates for president took
the stage yesterday in the state
that holds the first presidential
contest to pitch themselves as
the strongest to challenge Dem-
ocratic President Barack Obama
on voters' top issue: jobs.
Absent from the forum was
the one Republican who has
made that argument central
to his second campaign for the
White House: Mitt Romney.
The former Massachusetts gov-
ernor, sitting atop most polls
and a pile of cash, was in New
York raising money.
And businessman Herman
Cain took a pass, too, staying
in Washington to deal with
the fallout of the disclosure of
sexual harassment allegations
from the 1990s while he was the
head of the National Restaurant
Association.
So Rick Perry, Rick Santo-
rum, Michele Bachmann, Ron
Paul and Newt Gingrich looked
to fill that vacuum, jockeying for
relevance on corporate tax pol-
icy in hopes of gaining an edge
with economic conservatives
two months before the Iowa
caucuses. In a GOP primary
campaign with few major poli-
ty distinctions, the 90-minute
forum illuminated incremental
differences as the candidates
worked to demonstrate savvy
on voters' top concern.
Of those on stage, only Perry
said he favored maintaining a
tax on reintroducing corporate
profits held offshore to the U.S.
"I would put a five-and-a-
quarter percent rate on that
money for one year, to allow it
to be brought back in, to be able
to create jobs," the Texas gover-
nor told the audience of about
400 at Vermeer Manufacturing,
an agricultural plant, in Pella.
Today the money is taxed at the
35-percent corporate rate.
Santorum, the former Penn-
sylvania senator, favors requir-
ing no tax on the money if it is
spent on a manufacturing plant
and equipment. And Bachmann,
Gingrich and Paul saidthey sup-
port a zero-percent tax, without
strings.
"Without a doubt, it's their
money," said Bachmann, a Min-
nesota congresswoman. "Prof-
its are stimulus. That's the true
stimulus."
All the candidates on stage
called for vastly cutting federal
regulations and overturning
the health care law. They also
support incentives - to varying
degrees - for U.S. companies to
bring money generated overseas
back into the country on the
argument the infusion of cash
will spark expansion and hiring.
Estimates range from $1.2 to 1.7
trillion in off-shore profits.
Studies have shown, howev-
er, that a similar holiday under
President George W. Bush and
a GOP-controlled Congress in
2004 and 2005 had little effect
on job growth.
The forum was one of sev-
eral this year in Iowa and New
Hampshire, where the vot-
ing begins in January. The
appearances are important for
lesser-known candidates to
meet voters in key early-voting
states. Most of the multicandi-
date events in Iowa so far have
been sponsored by social con-
servative groups, a potent force
in Iowa's GOP caucus elector-
ate. This one was put on by the
National Association of Manu-
facturers in hopes of giving
Iowans a better sense of where
candidates stand economically.
But the meeting's value was
unclear, considering Romney,
who is stressing his decades as
an investment capital firm exec-
utive as proof of his economic
savvy, and Cain, who is running
on his record as a businessman,
weren't there. Both are running
ahead of the others in national
and state polls.
"The ones that weren't here
were the ones that missed out,"
said Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a
pro-business Republican elect-
ed again last year after a dozen
years away from the office and
who co-hosted the event.
Romney chose to stick with
his policy not to appear with his
rivals on stage, except at nation-
ally televised debates, even
though he's competing more
aggressively in Iowa than he
had earlier this year and is try-
ing to win over the pro-business
segment of the GOP that lifted
Branstad to victory last year.
"In my book it hurts him,"
said undecided Iowa Republi-
can Connie Richards, a nurs-
ing home administrator who
attended the Pella forum. "If
they have an economic plan to
present, I want to hear it, and I
didn't today."
Of all of Romney's rivals,
Perry is working the hardest to
emerge as Romney's chief chal-
lenge on the economy - and he
has the money to do it.
But even though he had
the opportunity, Perry took a
pass on jabbing at Romney and
focused on promoting his own
plans.
"In Texas, or in Iowa, or
whatever state it is, we know
that the way you create jobs is
not by overtaxing, overregu-
lating or overlitigating," Perry
said.
Paul, a libertarian Texas
representative, ignited laugh-
ter when asked what he would
like to hear Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke say at
a scheduled Wednesday meet-
ing on interest rates. "He was
resigning," said Paul, who has
called for the elimination of the
Federal Reserve Bank.
Bachmann stressed open-
ing international markets and
declaring a moratorium on fed-
eral regulations. "We need the
federal governmtent to get off
our back."
Santorum pitched his plan to
eliminate the corporate income
tax for companies that make
products in the United States,
saying: "We need to make more
things in America again."
Although all the candidates
sharply criticized Obama's
approach to the economy, Gin-
grich was most aggressive,
calling the president, "a left-
wing radical," and arguing that
unemployment compensation
should require job-training.
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