Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada admitted Tuesday he had an extramarital affair with a member of his campaign staff. Ensign told The Associated Press in a statement, "I deeply regret and am very sorry for my actions." An aide in Ensign's office said the affair took place between December 2007 and August 2008 with a campaign staffer who was married to an employee in Ensign's Senate office. Neither have worked for the senator since May 2008. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity. The...Read Full Story
NV GOP SENATOR ADMITS TO EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR So Much For His “Family Values” Adulterous Republican Senator John Ensign with Senate Minority Leader Mitch “Little Bitch” McConnell looking on in admiration. (June 16, Las Vegas, NV) A heart of stone, a house of glass and balls of brass - just another hypocritical Republican politico caught with his pants, and morals, down around his ankles. John Ensign, a “rising star” among the beleaguered GOP team has admitted to an extramarital affair with a...Read Full Story
AP - Sen. John Ensign said Thursday his parents gave his mistress and her family nearly $100,000 "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time," providing his first public acknowledgment that the woman received payments tied to the affair.Read Full Story
Oops! From the SeattlePI.com: Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, on Tuesday admitted a lengthy affair with a campaign aide who was married to a member of the Senator's staff. "I violated my vows of marriage," said Ensign, a conservative and born-again Christian active in the Promise Keepers organization. The two-term senator said the affair began late in 2007 and ended in August of 2008. He did not identify the "woman in question" - to use a...Read Full Story
2012 presidential hopeful Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada admitted today he cheated on his wife with a former member of his campaign staff. An aide in Ensign's office said the affair took place between December 2007 and August 2008 with a campaign staffer who was married to an employee in Ensign's Senate office. Read on ... 710 KNUS Denver-Boulder -Read Full Story
Senator John Ensign is back in the headlines, not for anything new, but for the same old same old. When Ensign confessed his affair with his best friend’s wife he should have resigned. But, like many before him… Vitter and others in the Too Good to Be True Party… John Ensign is not willing to do the best thing for the State of Nevada or the United States of America. He should have resigned when the story broke. Maybe he could have gotten by if he had just been bedding some other friend...Read Full Story
Naughty, Naughty, NAUGHTY! So much for “what happens in Vegas STAYS in Vegas…”
Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada is admitting he had an extramarital affair with a member of his campaign staff.
Ensign told The Associated Press in a statement, “I deeply regret and am very sorry for my actions.”
An aide in Ensign’s office said the [...]Read Full Story
John Ensign admits previous affairSen. John Ensign, R-Nev. speaks at a news conference at the Lloyd D. George Federal building, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 in Las Vegas. Ensign apologized for having an affair with a member of his campaign staff more than ...Read Full Story
Alas, Gov. Sanford isn't the only "family values" philanderer. Slightly more than a week earlier, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) admitted he had a nine-month extramarital affair with one of his campaign staff. Ensign, who was contemplating a run for president ...
Doesn't that guy sticking a needle in that cat's butt look familiar? Actually, it's former Sen. John Ensign, who has gone back to work as a veterinarian ... for the third time. Ensign was a 35-year-old veterinarian in 1994 when he unseated Rep. Jim Bilbray ...
In May 2011, the Senate Ethics Committee identified Coburn in their report on the ethics violations of Senator John Ensign. The report stated that Coburn knew about Ensign's extramarital affair and was involved in trying to negotiate a financial settlement ...
Staffer No. 2: Compared to the rest of our campaign? I don’t think so, sir. The Rick Santorum meeting took place in a car on the way to John Ensign’s veterinary clinic. Santorum: Tell me again: Why am I here? Staffer No. 1: Because you are ...
The eagle-eyed folks over at Daily Kos Elections report that the Nevada Republican, who resigned his seat last year, has renewed his veterinary license. Ensign spent six years working as a veterinarian in Nevada, from 1987-1993, according to my copy of the ...
Melanie Sloan, director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told TPM after the hearing that she saw no signs that Hampton was cooperating ... warned Ensign that news of his affair was about to break.
He left out a very big story. Senator John Ensign’s story is much more exciting. It has sex, intrigue, goofy politics, so many twists and turns. I say it deserves a novel, and maybe a full-length movie. If anyone Googles his name they will not ...
John Ensign will remember Santorum as the buddy who tipped off Ensign in June 2009 that his extramarital affair was in the process of being leaked to the national media. Santorum, a former senator and U.S. House member, was close friends with ...
John Ensign. How friendly were they? Enough so that when Doug Hampton, whose wife was Ensign’s wife’s best friend and the senator’s mistress (that never disappoints for creepiness, does it?), reached out to Santorum, the ex-Pennsylvania ...
Gen. Bruce Litchfield, commander of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. General Litchfield issued the commissioning oath to Navy Ensign Johnson on Jan. 19, the day before Mr. Johnson's 43rd birthday. "Ensign Johnson is a leader," General Litchfield ...
Darlene Ensign is the wife of Senator John Ensign (R-NV). Her husband admitted an extramarital affair on June 16, 2009. Find more Darlene Ensign news and information here.
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Darlene Ensign: Children: Trevor Ensign Siena Ensign Michael Ensign: Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada ... In September 2007, it was discovered that Ensign had used the secret hold rule (a ...
Spouse: Darlene Ensign Party: Republican; Assumed office: January 3, 2001; Former profession: Veterinarian Alma mater: UNLV, Oregon State University and Colorado State University