Ensign helped mistress's husband get jobs

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AP via Yahoo!:



Ensign helped mistress's husband get jobs

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY, Associated Press Writer


LAS VEGAS – Sen. John Ensign helped his mistress's husband get two jobs during the time the rising Republican senator acknowledges carrying on an extramarital affair, an Ensign spokesman said Thursday.

"Just as he has done for many other staff members, Senator Ensign made recommendation calls for Mr. Hampton," Ensign spokesman Tory Mazzola said in a statement. Mazzola was responding to questions about the employment of Doug Hampton, a former aide to the Nevada senator.

Ensign on Tuesday admitted having a nine-month affair with Doug Hampton's wife, Cindy, who also worked for the senator. Ensign's office has said that both Cindy and Doug Hampton left their jobs in May 2008, and the affair ended in August 2008.

In the months after leaving his post, Doug Hampton quickly landed two positions with companies connected to Ensign.

One, a consulting firm that ran Ensign's 2006 campaign, acknowledges the senator encouraged the company to hire Doug Hampton.

A Las-Vegas based airline whose executives have contributed money to the senator declined to comment on whether Ensign was involved in Doug Hampton's employment. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090618/ap_on_re_us/us_ensign_affair

[BeatleBoot]

1. He demanded that Bill Clinton resign.

But Ensign won't resign?

What a fucking hypocrite.

Oh, wait, he's a Republican pig.

But, I repeat myself.

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2. Doug Hampton appears to have been happy to let Ensign bang

his wife as long as she got her fee and he got his.

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3. Delete, intended as an OP