If Sharon Bialek was at all intimidated or afraid of presidential wannabe and alleged groper Herman Cain at a Tea Party gig last month, she sure didn’t show it, one witness says.
“She kind of threw her arms on [Cain] . . . She just went up and hugged him and put her arm under his arm and started talking to him very closely,’’ recalled Amy Jacobson, a radio personality in Chicago who attended the event and had drinks with Bialek, an acquaintance, beforehand.
“It sort of looked flirtatious,’’ Jacobson told The Post yesterday, of the encounter between Bialek and Cain before the Republican contender took the stage.
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Bialek has said she went to the event not knowing that Cain — whom she accused of molesting her 14 years ago when she went to him for job advice — would be speaking at the event.
She said that once she realized he was there, she hoped that by approaching him, he might finally “own up to what he had done.’’
But Jacobson said that when she and Bialek had drinks with a group before the event, Bialek “didn’t say one disparaging word about him. She just said she had worked with him and knew him and said, ‘My boyfriend and I met him at a [party].’
“She just seemed happy . . . to be seeing Herman Cain.’’
Jacobson’s comments came as a 64-year-old Queens woman, Anna Alexander, told The Post that she got to know Bialek in the 1990s — and that she was “a social climber’’ out for “the money.”
Alexander said she met the Chicago woman while Bialek was visiting her then-Manhattan beau at the Upper East Side restaurant where Alexander worked.
Then, “I got a phone call [from Bialek] one day. I thought she was calling to wish me happy birthday,’’ Alexander said.
“She was sobbing and crying that she was going to lose her apartment. She said, ‘Please help me out.’ ”
Alexander said she gave Bialek around $2,000 — and never got it back.
“She said, ‘I will give it to you when I have it. In the meantime, go on welfare,’ ” Alexander said.
“I don’t believe her [Cain story], not because I’m trying to get even or anything,’’ insisted Alexander, who runs an employment agency in Manhattan. “I’ve been to dinner with her and with men, and I know how she acts.”
Bialek did not respond to requests for comment.