Mark Block, chief of staff to Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, said Wednesday that Texas Governor Rick Perry owes his boss an apology. 

Block made the comments on Fox News, where he faced questions about the sexual harassment allegations that have swirled around Cain since Sunday. According to National Review Online, Block "laid the blame for the leaks about the allegations about Cain squarely at the Perry campaign’s feet."

“The actions of the Perry campaign are despicable,” Block said. “Rick Perry and his campaign owe Herman Cain and his family an apology. Both the Rick Perry campaign and Politico did the wrong thing by reporting something that wasn’t true from anonymous sources. Like I said, they owe Herman Cain and his family an apology.”

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Later in the interview, Block said that Perry and his campaign owe America an apology, too.

As Cain did on Wednesday, Block said the source of the story was Curt Anderson, a political consultant who worked for Cain during his 2004 Senate campaign, and who now serves as an adviser to Perry. Anderson told Forbes he was not the source of the story. 

When asked about the campaign's handling of the story, Block did admit that "we could have handled it better, we could have got out in front of the story a little bit faster and we could have had better explanations."

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