lvrj.com - 6/17/2009
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Statement from Senator John Ensign Las Vegas, NV Senator John Ensign made the following statement today regarding a personal matter:"I came home to Nevada to come forward and explain to the citizens of our state something that I was involved in about a year ago. Last year I had an affair. I ...
republicanrenewalproject.com - 6/17/2009
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Ensign is investing considerable time and political capital
to resurrect the Nevada Republican Party, which has been
in severe decline in recent years. No longer a GOP-leaning backwater with a few glitzy casinos, the Silver State grew enormously over ...
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nytimes.com - 6/17/2009
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WASHINGTON Senator John Ensign , Republican of
Nevada, admitted Tuesday that he had an extramarital affair
with a member of his campaign staff. Mr. Ensign led the Republicans’ campaign efforts in 2008 and had recently visited Iowa, apparently ...
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Senator Says He Had Affair With an Aide
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The Cost of Infidelity
Blogs For Victory —
Nevada’s junior Senator, John Ensign (R), has admitted to an affair:
Calling it “absolutely the worst thing that I’ve ever done in my life,” U.S. Sen. John Ensign admitted Tuesday he had an affair with a campaign staffer last year.
“If there was ever anything that I could take back in my life, this would be it,” Ensign, 51, said Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, reading from a prepared statement in a brief news conference at which he took no questions.
The Nevada Republican, a leading conservative voice in his party who has been listed as ...
Tangled Web Of Jobs, Money, Illicit Sex Links Ensign, Former Staffers
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... But it's Ensign's ties to Cynthia's husband Doug that may be more interesting. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Ensign and Hampton are old friends. When the senator gave Hampton a top staff position in 2006, "it was as if Ensign had put his brother on staff," a former Ensign staffer told the paper. "[Hampton] had a lot of sway with the senator." Hampton's formal title was "administrative assistant," the former staffer described the job as a sort of "co-chief of staff." Hampton's financial disclosure form ...
EXCLUSIVE: Son And Husband Of Ensign's Girlfriend Work For Company Run By Ensign Backer
TPMMuckraker —
... In May 2008, Doug Hampton left his job as Ensign's administrative assistant. The Las Vegas Review-Journal had previously reported that Doug Hampton had worked as a consultant for Allegiant since leaving Ensign's office. ...
Is Ensign Walking Back Extortion Claim?
TPMMuckraker —
... now reported that Ensign chose to go public because the woman's husband was demanding a money in exchange for his silence.
Here's Politico from Tuesday evening, just as Ensign was flagellating himself before the cameras:
Political insiders in Nevada and in the Senate said that Ensign decided to acknowledge the affair publicly after the husband of the woman he had been seeing asked him for a substantial sum of money.
And here's the Las Vegas Review-Journal around the same time:
A Washington ...
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Ex-Campaign Staffer Confirms Affair With Ensign - Political News
foxnews.com 6/17/2009 — A former campaign staffer for Sen. John Ensign is confirming her involvement in an extramarital affair. Daniel Albregts, a Las Vegas lawyer for the couple, says that Doug and Cindy Hampton confirm that they are the couple Ensign referred to during his ...
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First Read 6/17/2009
The Las Vegas Sun: “Sen. John Ensign … acknowledged an extramarital affair with a member of his campaign staff. The affair took place between December 2007 and August 2008 with a campaign staffer who was married to an employee in Ensign's Senate ...
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