Cain accuser stands by claim of longtime affair

WASHINGTON - An Atlanta businesswoman who has asserted she had a longstanding affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain stood by her story Wednesday despite his denials, saying she was not proud to admit it.

``Our relationship was on and off for the last 13, 14 years,'' Ginger White said in a nationally broadcast interview. ``This was not a consistent love affair that went on every day for the last 14 years, so he is correct when he made that statement.''

But White also said she was ``disappointed'' that Cain had called her a ``troubled Atlanta businesswoman.''

Cain had described White in that fashion in a letter he sent to campaign supporters Tuesday, saying he was writing to assure them that ``this woman's story is completely false.''

``I'm not here to say anything negative about Mr. Cain,'' White said on ABC's ``Good Morning America.'' At the same time, she said she had gone on television ``to state the truth,'' and that she wasn't backing down.

She said her relationship with Cain was ``a very casual affair. Am I proud to admit that? No, I am not.''

White also said she took several trips with Cain, including a flight to Las Vegas to see a Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield boxing match.

She also said that she had ``consistently'' received gifts and money from Cain over the past two and a half years, but added that this was ``not sex for cash.''

During a conference call Tuesday with supporters, Cain once again denied the affair. ``It was just a friendship relationship,'' he said, according to the transcript. ``That being said, obviously, this is a cause for reassessment.''
White told ABC she didn't think Cain ``would make a good president'' but said that she did not come forward because of any political motives. Asked if she thought he should abandon his campaign, White said, ``That's something that he has to look himself into the mirror and ask himself.''

And she said she had regular communications with Cain ``up until last week.''
``The truth of the matter is, when I entered into this inappropriate relationship with Mr. Cain, I was single,'' she said. ``I was not married. Mr. Cain has been married throughout this entire relationship.''

Asked about phone records showing frequent correspondence with Cain, including text messages, she replied: ``You really don't enter into that holding onto receipts, holding onto notes.''

``The funny thing about Herman Cain is that never in a million years did he probably think I would speak out on this,'' White said. ``I came out being very honest and so far I have been absolutely humiliated, embarrassed.''

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