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FEC Declines to Punish Sen. John Ensign for Payments Made to Mistress
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Federal Election Commission handed Sen. John Ensign a big break Friday, dismissing a complaint against the Nevada Republican over a $96,000 payment his parents made to his former mistress and her family. The FEC disagreed with the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which alleged that the money given to Cynthia Hampton amounted to an illegal political donation, The Washington Post reported. CREW had filed the complaint against the senator, his parents, his campaign and his political action committee. The commission said it accepted the claim by Ensign's ...
Sen. John Ensign: I Broke No Law, and I Won't Resign
By Sally Denton - Politics DailyNevada Republican Sen. John Ensign, under increasing attack following his affair with a staffer, told CNN Tuesday he did not break Senate ethics rules by helping to secure a lobbying job for the woman's husband. "I said in the past, I recommended him for jobs just like I've recommended a lot of people," Ensign told CNN. "But we absolutely did nothing except for comply exactly with what the ethics laws and the ethics rules of the Senate state. We were very careful in everything that we did." Meanwhile, two Nevada talk show hosts have called for Ensign's resignation in the wake of the expanding ...
The Two (Magic!) Words That Could Have Avoided the John Ensign Sex Scandal
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyFrom old-time reporters with soup stains on their ties to youthful citizen journalists who find Twitter too wordy, the press pack loves nothing so much as a politician caught in flagrante, committing the sin of hypocrisy. So it was with Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign, who told a Las Vegas press conference, "Last year I had an affair. I violated the vows of my marriage." What that admission prompted, of course, were fast Google and NEXIS searches looking for anything embarrassing in retrospect that Ensign might have said about the likes of Bill Clinton and Larry Craig. And sure enough, ...
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