A Northern Virginia lawyer claims on his blog that he's found a connection between Mitt Romney and the man who took over the National Restaurant Association (NRA) right after Herman Cain left. Namely, he claims that the man donated to the Romney for President campaign. (A man of the same name did run the NRA after Cain and did donate to Romney's presidential run, but I can't confirm that it's the same man (oddly, the image copy of the donation to the Romney campaign is missing from the FEC database online) - this lawyer says it is the same man.) Considering that Herman Cain is in the middle of a scandal involving privileged information from the National Restaurant Association, the tie, if true, is at least interesting.
UPDATE: Herman Cain says he thinks it was someone else, via Politico:
Herman Cain accused a former consultant to his unsuccessful 2004 Senate campaign, Curt Anderson, of leaking damaging information about past sexual harassment allegations against Cain.
Curt, who is now an adviser to Rick Perry, denied the charge in an email to POLITICO's Jonathan Martin: "I’ve known Herman Cain for about 7 years. I was one of several consultants on his Senate race in 2004 and was proud to help him. I'd never heard any of these allegations until I read them in Politico, nor does anything I read in the press change my opinion that Herman is an upstanding man and a gentleman. I have great respect for Herman and his character and I would never speak ill of him, on the record or off the record. That's true today and it's not going to change."
Cain's inflammatory charge came in an interview with Forbes.
