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Sen. Coburn to Sen. Ensign: Pay Up!
Talking Points Memo —
... Looks like Sen. John Ensign is in for a rough couple of days. His former staffer and buddy -- the one whose wife Ensign had an affair with -- has done a two-part interview for a local TV show scheduled to run tonight and tomorrow night. The Las Vegas Sun has a preview of the interview, Doug Hampton's first since Ensign admitted to the affair: ...
Doug Hampton Breaks Silence On Wife's Affair With Ensign
TPMMuckraker —
Doug Hampton has spoken publicly for the first time about his wife Cindy's affair with Sen. John Ensign. And it's good...
The highlights from Hampton's interview with Las Vegas Sun political columnist Jon Ralston: - Hampton said that Ensign paid Cindy more than $25,000 in severance when she stopped working for his campaign committees -- a possible felony violation of campaign-finance law if he didn't report it as an in-kind contribution. (Campaign reports show no such payment.)
- Hampton said Ensign continued the affair for months after ...
Ensign's Apology to Mistress
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
The Las Vegas Sun posts the handwritten letter of apology Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) sent to his mistress in February of last year. Wrote Ensign: "I was completely self-centered and only thinking of myself. I used you
for my own pleasure... God never intended for me to do this. I walked away from Him and my relationship with Him has suffered terribly. I know He loves me and He loves you. He wants to restore Doug and you." The newspaper also reports that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) urged Ensign to end the affair and help his mistress and her husband "pay ...
Ensign "letter" to mistress: I used you for "pleasure"
The Political Carnival —
... Hampton says Coburn, who shares Ensign's Christian faith, urged him to end the affair -- and urged Ensign, whose family owns a local casino, to help the Hamptons pay off their onerous, high-interest mortgage. ...
John Ensign Affair: Read The Letter He Sent To His Lover
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Doug Hampton said that Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and others urged Ensign "to end the affair and help the Hamptons pay off their home and move to Colorado. But Ensign was so infatuated that he continued, Hampton said, reports the Las Vegas Sun. ...
In Your Own House, Senator Ensign?
Daily Kos —
On the day that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's extended hike up and down the Appalachia Trail was revealed, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) must have thought that he was the luckiest man alive, knowing that his own affair with a married employee was about to become old news. But that was before Doug Hampton, the husband of Ensign's paramour, decided to go public with more details of the devout and pure family man's affair with his wife. And this little nugget really jumps out: ...
GOP Senator Ensign allegedly paid mistress $25,000. Was it federal taxpayer money?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... According to Mr. Hampton, his wife was paid $25,000 when she left her job (and Ensign.) Also, we learn that Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK and widely known as Dr. No) served as Ensign's marriage counselor: ...
John Ensign's Letter Of Remorse
Daily Kos —
In the weeks since Senator John Ensign (R-NV) decided to man up go public with his affair before somebody else did, it has become a rarely mentioned footnote, relegated to the annals of Republican sex scandals. That is no longer the case. And after yesterday's interview with the husband of the woman Ensign had an affair with, we now know that there was more to the intervention that was held in the months after Ensign got sloppy with his text messaging. Hampton and Ensign were bonded by their conservative ...
The Husband of John Ensign's Mistress Speaks Out
Crooks and Liars —
... Doug Hampton said that Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and others urged Ensign "to end the affair and help the Hamptons pay off their home and move to Colorado. But Ensign was so infatuated that he continued, Hampton said, reports the Las Vegas Sun. ...
Rick Santorum May Have Tipped Off Ensign To Affair's Exposure
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... A number of conservative Republicans appear to have become entangled Nevada Sen. John Ensign's affair and its aftermath. First, his mistress' husband said that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) urged Ensign to pay off the woman's family. Now the cuckold is saying former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) ...
