... he could no longer put up with the intense focus of the affair and the ethical issues.
“While I stand behind my firm belief that I have not violated any law, rule, or standard of conduct of the Senate, and I have fought to prove this publicly, I will not continue to subject my family, my constituents, or the Senate to any further rounds of investigation, depositions, drawn out proceedings, or especially public hearings,” he said.
Another Republican with zipper control problems. Another Republican who preached morality. Another "family values" Republican. But as so often happens with these types got caught with his pants down literally. Another Republican caught in this situation who didn't have the decency to resign right away. No only under the treat of a real investigation of what went on does the Senator head for the exit.
Here's the story the woman, Cynthia Hampton, he had the affair with her husband worked for the Senator as an administrative assistant. Also the husband was supposed to be a close personal friend. Oh and the wife was on the Senator’s payroll too.
The husband, Doug Hampton, finds out about the affair.
According to Hampton:
Hampton said Ensign continued the affair for months after Hampton found out about it, and even well after the Ensigns and the Hamptons had confronted the issue together!
Both he and his wife are dismissed from the Senator’s payroll. But then things get interesting. Ensign helps Doug Hampton get a job with a consulting firm run by political advisers and supposedly helped Hampton line up some clients. Now this may seem all very innocent but another way to look at it is a way to give Hampton a job and at the same time keep Hampton's mouth shut about the affair.
Then there is the generous gift from the Senator’s parents to the Hampton family. $96,000 in all which was labeled at gift income. A lawyer for the parents says this was all legal. Gee can you say hush money. I thought you could.
Finally by resigning Ensign essentially ends the ethics committee investigation.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Then again maybe if a door had hit him in the nuts he'd never had had all these problems.
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Ensign should have resigned two years ago and he knows it. His actions are by default. He destroyed Doug Hampton's life. It's time Ensign paid the piper. But we all know that corrupt republican¬s never do.
It's obscene that Ensign only resigned because he was backed up against the wall. This C Street resident and member of the christian cult known as dominionism is just another example of the greatest hypocrisy in our country today.
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