Flashback: Ensign Called On Clinton To Resign After Admitting Affair — ‘He Has No Credibility Left’

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/16/ensign-affair/

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In 1998, while running for Nevada’s Senate seat against Harry Reid, Ensign called on President Clinton to resign in light of his admitted affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky:

“I came to that conclusion recently, and frankly it’s because of what he put his whole Cabinet through and what he has put the country through,” Ensign said Thursday, becoming the first member of the Nevada delegation to call for Clinton to quit. “He has no credibility left.”



Another article mentioned that Ensign's adultress' 19 year old son was paid to be on his staff.

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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.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23844.html#ixzz0ImncVpNI&C



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23844.html



Another good one:

An Associated Press review of federal records showed that around the time of the affair, Cindy Hampton, 46, received a promotion and a pay raise at one political entity controlled by Ensign and a pay raise at a second. Federal records show Cynthia Hampton was on the payroll of Ensign's Battle Born Political Action Committee at $1,385.24 a month until she was appointed treasurer and her salary was doubled to $2,771.50 starting in February 2008.

Her salary also doubled at Ensign's campaign committee, where she was treasurer, beginning around the time the affair began. It went from $500 a month to $1,000 a month.

Records also show Doug Hampton, 47, received a monthly salary of $13,555 as an administrative assistant in Ensign's Senate office. He received a payment of $19,679 for his final month of employment and was off the payroll on May 1, 2008, according to Senate records. Additionally, the National Republican Senatorial Committee made twice-monthly payments, generally $500 apiece, to Brandon Hampton, who Republican officials said was the couple's son. The payments began in March of last year and ended in August, when Ensign's office says the affair ended.




Who does this family remind me of?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gAKHK5xBT5NdBleTXH5_-Htc2p4QD98T0H980

Ensign had no credibility to lose.

"Our families were close. That closeness put me into situations which led to my inappropriate behavior."


Notice the MSM has already made the story invisible. How long did they prattle on about John Edwards?

If so, I would bet on it.

Families were close = Husband, wife and son all worked for him. The husband certainly both knew it was going on while it was going on - the whole family was getting paid excess amounts for something. I doubt it was a straight pimping of the wife. Given the phrasing about the families, the reaction of the family, the payoffs and timing, etc., I would definitely bet on it.