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Posts Tagged ‘John Ensign’

He meant “beat” in the nicest possible way

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

John Ensign is clearly a man capable of incredible moral rationalizing, what with the whole Promise-Keeper/best-friend-wife-seducer dichotomy he's got going on. But in an interview with the Review-Journal's man in Washington, D.C., Nevada's junior senator shows he's become a master of the yoga art of intellectual contortions.Speaking of an infamous

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Is anybody surprised?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Let's do the math.First, John Ensign slept with his best friend's wife and employee, Cynthia Hampton, thus betraying his friend (and also an employee) Doug Hampton as well as his own wife, Darlene Ensign.Then, Ensign was forced to step down from his leadership post in the Republican Party, thus simultaneously

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Hampton deal will keep sordid details of the case--including those who enabled Hampton to lobby illegally--from surfacing during election.