NRSC paid son of woman in Ensign affair

brooklynite

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Wed Jun-17-09 08:09 PM
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NRSC paid son of woman in Ensign affair

Source: Politico

The son of the couple at the center of the sex scandal that has engulfed Sen. John Ensign was being paid by National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2008 at the same time his mother was having an affair with the Nevada Republican.

Both Doug and Cynthia Hampton were already working in senior positions for Ensign when their son Brandon Hampton was hired to do “research policy consulting” for the NRSC in March 2008.

The younger Hampton, 19, was paid $5,400 before he left the Ensign office in August last year, Federal Election Commission records show.

That means during March and April 2008, three members of the Hampton family were working for Ensign. Both Doug and Cynthia Hampton stopped working for Ensign at the end of April 2008.

Imagine what might have happened in 2008 if NRSC had actually spent its money on real candidates.....

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Bolo Boffin

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Wed Jun-17-09 08:11 PM
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1. OH, man, what a headline

Edited on Wed Jun-17-09 08:12 PM by Bolo Boffin

Evidently the son was actually doing work for the NRSC. But, MAN, the idea that it was paying hush money to family members...

...maybe it's suggesting a sweetheart nepotism deal? What the hell is "research policy consulting" or whatever?

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No Elephants

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Thu Jun-18-09 09:15 AM
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13. It means Senators have a policy of trying to keep extra-marital affairs secret.

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bigworld

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Wed Jun-17-09 08:12 PM
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2. I would think this is more damning than the affair itself

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bulloney

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Wed Jun-17-09 08:38 PM
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3. This reinforces my suspicions on the affair. Repubs must be covering up something BIG.

They're using this affair as a red herring because they know the MSM gerbils will spend all kinds of time covering it ad nauseum for the next several days or weeks. It will take everyone's attention away from the REAL scandal. Maybe indictments against Cheney et al?

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tom_paine

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Wed Jun-17-09 08:39 PM
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4. The only thing less surprising than this is the way the Toady M$M will give it 100% censorship.

Maybe a quick dash one time across the ticker.

For Plausible Deniability, you know.

Watch. It WILL happen that way. 99.9999999% certainty.

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libnnc

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Wed Jun-17-09 08:42 PM
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5. As the Elephant Turns

who needs daytime soaps anymore?

:popcorn:

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kestrel91316

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Wed Jun-17-09 09:13 PM
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6. Ok, any guesses as to how many federal laws might have been

violated in this whole little scheme/affair????

Inquiring minds want to know. And I want to know if Ensign committed any felonies, or were they all just misdemeanors.........

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griloco

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Wed Jun-17-09 09:48 PM
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7. what's the big deal?

he wasn't in the oval office, was he?

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kestrel91316

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Wed Jun-17-09 09:50 PM
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8. I sure hope you simply forgot to use the sarcasm smilie.

Because otherwise, you're gonna get a pizza in about 3.....2......1.

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griloco

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Wed Jun-17-09 10:13 PM
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11. sarcasm?

hardly. political "youthful indiscretions" only
count in the oval office. it's in the constitution.
somewhere in the back in one of those addendums or
whatever those things are called that karlie rove wrote.

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Arkana

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Wed Jun-17-09 10:01 PM
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9. Clownballoon is coming!

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Kingofalldems

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Wed Jun-17-09 10:12 PM
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10. Special counsel needed right now

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NBachers

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Wed Jun-17-09 11:12 PM
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12. Lie Down With Dogs

Wake Up With Fleas

Sounds like a bad case of Bedbugs may be in order, too . . .

The wheel trucks spin away at a crazy angle as another car jacknives off the tracks and crashes through the trestle and into the gorge below in the Great Republican Train Wreck!

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