Sen. Ensign in more trouble because of affair: "Got any work for Douglas Hampton?"
You heard the one about Senator Ensign's affair involving hush money, right? And you're surprised he's still got a job, right? Well, this Senator Ensign story may finally mean the end for him.
The NY Times has a long piece about it.
Early last year, Senator John Ensign contacted a small circle of political and corporate supporters back home in Nevada — a casino designer, an airline executive, the head of a utility and several political consultants — seeking work for a close friend and top Washington aide, Douglas Hampton.
He’s a competent guy, and he’s looking to come back to Nevada. Do you know of anything?” one patron recalled Mr. Ensign asking.
The job pitch left out one salient fact: the senator was having an affair with Mr. Hampton’s wife, Cynthia, a campaign aide. The tumult that the liaison was causing both families prompted Mr. Ensign, a two-term Republican, to try to contain the damage and find a landing spot for Mr. Hampton.In the coming months, the senator arranged for Mr. Hampton to join a political consulting firm and lined up several donors as his lobbying clients, according to interviews, e-mail messages and other records. Mr. Ensign and his staff then repeatedly intervened on the companies’ behalf with federal agencies, often after urging from Mr. Hampton.
While the affair made national news in June, the role that Mr. Ensign played in assisting Mr. Hampton and helping his clients has not been previously disclosed. Several experts say those activities may have violated an ethics law that bars senior aides from lobbying the Senate for a year after leaving their posts...read on
..you should at least try to keep him out of the house during the day! That's just common sense.
But seriously, this might be a new entry for the Urban Slang Dictionary:
Ensign - a new hire who got the job through sex-induced nepotism.
"Hey, did you see the new guy in that empty cubicle? I heard he's the Director's new Ensign.
...if you tried to apply it to the Navy officer corps.
At a black-tie Christmas party at the White House in 2006, Mr. Ensign and Ms. Hampton beamed as they posed for a picture with President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura. It was that night that he realized that his feelings toward Ms. Hampton had become romantic, Mr. Ensign later admitted to Mr. Hampton, according to Mr. Hampton.
I don't recall ever reading a paragraph in the NYT that gave me more pleasure than that one.
This is better than a soap opera! It's sordid, juicy and fun to watch!
I agree! I'll make popcorn if someone will mix adult beverages.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
May I mix you a martini, pop?
ps, extra butter on the popcorn!
:)
You may mix two for me and one for my dog, after the tiring day he and I have had. How about we just float those little popcorns in a pool of butter. Let them get all buttered up and we happily pop them right in our mouth. Light on the salt though, we wanna keep it healthy. ;)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Sounds good to me ;)
Let's eat, drink and be merry!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
sound when the "GOP sex scandal" graphic shows up. Keep it classy.
Let's see which of you will tell bad boy Johnnie that it's time to step down?
Yesterday Michelle Bachmann's latest insanity was on the news, calling school health clinics, "sex clinics". She's a big Family Values advocate. Surely she will be clamoring for Ensign to step down, right?
C'mon, you sanctimonious hypocrites of the GOP, clean your own house.
There goes O'LIEly - always digging, sniffing, proping, probing, proping for a way out of his black hole. He should take a lesson from Beck and use the vapo-rub in his eyes. [ok... wrong thread...]
The pattern that is emerging is that Republicans lack a moral compass. That most Republicans are just like this guy. The knowable statistical truth is that that Ensign is a typical Republican.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Here, I fixed it for you:
Republicans=amoral ass.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to screw another man's wife.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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Sorry Senator,
Letterman beat you to the punch line.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
he still has a job. He's a rethug and by definition a hypocrite surrounded by hypcrites who protect their own.
chosen ones according to the C Streeters.
Yep, hook up with C Street and you get a "get out of shit free" card. It's recognized at all scandalous situations.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Oh come on, everybody! I think you're all being a little mean here.
He did, after all, pray for forgiveness to Jay-sus, which means he is totally absolved, and once again innocent in the eyes of Gawd.
He can, therefore, keep his job and has every right to criticize and/or smear any
personDemocrat who would dare to do what he has done, and demand that person's resignation.*
if he manages to tie his shoes in the morning. That man is beginning to look morbidly obese... as in a stroke waiting to happen and not intending to wait long.
It's a ruse. Ensign is a republican. He don't care about the "stepford" decoy....Word on the street is Ensign is banging Mister Hampton. The "stepford" is just a candy coated decoy. These republicans are absolutely hillarious with their moral bankrupticies! Ha, ha, ha, Ho, ho. What a hoot...Nevada...whoo, whoo, ho, ho. Stop, it's making too much sense. Hey Rush...why does Marna hate you? Ho, ho, hoo, hoo.....C street...oh, no...ha,ha, man, I can't stop but understand this all....
The governor of Nevada is republican, and if Ensign steps down, it would just mean he'd just appoint another dalek/cylon/drone/zombie to fill his spot.
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
In a country where making money is valued more highly today than being honest, probative or credible?
For the "MORAL" party, the GOP (Gropin' Old Pervert) party always seems to get caught with their fingers in the cake. Say what you will about Pres. Clinton, we knew he had DAWG-like tendencies when we elected him; you dick-heads called him a scumbag and tried to crucify him; let's see some of that heat on on of your OWN!!
Ya never know what's comin' around the bend!
“I am confident we fully complied with the relevant laws and rules governing current and past employees."
So Ensign only follows those laws and rules he deems "relevant"?
Yep, the arrogance never ends.
payoff:
Poor put upon arrogant asshole. Was it legal to pay these people off? Was it blackmail? Extortion? Is Coburn on the hook for participating in a crime?
Ensign's Ex-Mistress Sought $8.5M Payoff
She must fancy herself a great fuck. Unfortunately, she's a terrible prostitute-you get paid first.
And clearly, John Ensign thought her skills lacking. He got mom and dad to pony up money, they disguised it s monetary gifts to the Hampton family members, to avoid TAXES DUE on $96,000 you just 'hand over' to someone.
Gotta love it when legislators use a workaround to scuttle the spirit of the law and make a questionable payoff.
me-oww!
Republicans?
Ethics?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!
What a scenario!
You're banging someone else's wife.
YOU GET YOUR PARENTS TO WRITE THEM A CHECK SO THEY'LL GO AWAY.
Then, you try to find a job for the husband.
That's a perfect way to keep people from finding out what you're doing.
You just can't make this stuff up. Does it get better than this?
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