Sharon Bialek’s Fiancé Belatedly Remembers He’s Not Her Fiancé

by Robert Stacy McCain | November 12, 2011 11:17 am

Things that make you go “hmmmm.”[1]

A northwest suburban man says he needs to clear the air after coming to the support of his fiancee, who accuses GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of making a sexual play for her.
For starters, Sharon Bialek isn’t his fiancee, said Mark Harwood in an exclusive interview on Wednesday night.
“We were engaged last year in June but I think there have been some assumptions that Sharon still lives here in Mundelein with me” Harwood told the I-Team. “Sharon and her son moved out in February of this year and now live in their own home … so effectively we’re no longer engaged.”
On Monday, when Ms. Bialek was the first of Cain’s alleged groping victim’s to go public, Harwood was contacted by news organizations trying to find out information about her. He did numerous interviews during which he was referred to as her fiancé. “I made reference to the fact that we were engaged and got engaged last June, 2010 and I think the assumption then-we were still engaged. I think most people seemed to be under the belief that Sharon lived [in my house] but she’s not here.”

Here’s video of the interview:

I don’t know if this has any particular significance, but for several days the media wanted the world to think Sharon Bialek was engaged to this guy, because that seemed to undercut suggestions she might be in it for money, e.g., Ben Smith at Politico[2]:

In fact, per the Tribune[3], she’s living with her fiance, described as an executive in the medical equipment industry, in “a large, five-bedroom home… in north suburban Mundelein.”

He was described as her fiancé in the lead of an Associated Press article[4] citing him as corroboration of Bialek’s account (although he didn’t know her in 1997 and says she never told him about it until Nov. 4). It was Thursday before WLS-TV got this interview, so that little bit of misinformation got corrected by the local ABC station in Chicago, three crucial days after it had been widely reported and woven into the media narrative as evidence of Bialek’s credibility.

Like I said: Things that make you go “hmmmm.”

(Cross-posted at The Other McCain[5].)

Endnotes:
  1. Things that make you go “hmmmm.”: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=8425971
  2. Ben Smith at Politico: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1111/The_campaign_against_Bialek.html
  3. Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-herman-cain-accuser-1108-20111108,0,4035523.story
  4. lead of an Associated Press article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-cain-accuserfianc,0,5732882.story
  5. Cross-posted at The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/2011/11/12/sharon-bialeks-fiance-belatedly-remembers-hes-not-her-fiance/

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