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Published Thursday, July 30, 2009 | 1:39 p.m.
Updated Thursday, July 30, 2009 | 4:26 p.m.
WASHINGTON -Another staff member is leaving Republican Sen. John Ensign’s office, according to a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun.
Sun columnist Jon Ralston is reporting this afternoon that John Min, a regional representative for the senator’s office in Las Vegas, has told friends he is leaving to pursue a doctoral degree.
Last week, Ensign’s office announced that his chief of staff and communications director were stepping down.
Ensign admitted last month to an affair with a former campaign staffer, whose husband was one of the senator’s top aides at the time. Ensign’s attorney later said the senator’s parents paid $96,000 to the woman and her family.
Ensign’s attorney has called the payment a gift, but an ethics group has asked federal authorities for an investigation.
Min handled Bureau of Land Managmenet issues for the senator and is leaving to pursue a doctoral degree in philosophy, Ralston wrote.
According to Ralston, Min gave no indication the senator’s problems caused him to leave, writing in an email: “This is an incredible opportunity that I could not pass up. I am thankful for Senator Ensign’s leadership and vision for the state of Nevada and country.”
Records show that Min had previously worked as a field representative for former Republican Rep. Jon Porter, who was defeated for re-election last fall.
Min came to work for Ensign in January.
The senator’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Sinking ship......
At least Ralston is doing his job. A local Republican talk radio station had GOV 0 on and not one substantive question was asked, just a bunch of softballs.
This is now how we are treated by our Senators: Thursday, 7/30 Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- A group of retirees who refused to leave Sen. Dianne Feinstein's West Los Angeles office until she talked to them about health care reform has been arrested. Los Angeles police Sergeant Rich Brunson said Thursday that at least eight people were being taken into custody and would likely be booked for trespassing and released. Cate Engel, a spokeswoman for the group California Alliance for Retired Americans, says the activists -- all between 55 and 87 years old -- wanted to talk to Feinstein about strengthening Medicare and using the program as a model for health reform. The group arrived at Feinstein's office around noon and refused to leave her conference room until their arrest more than six hours later. A call to the office seeking comment was not answered. So what were they arrested for anyway, not leaving her conference room? Shameless to arrest senior citizens wanting to speak to their Senator! Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
I think Senator Feinstein ought to have a beer with them and work out their differences.
I read Titus's 7-30-09 letter in the LV Sun "In Reforming Health Care, We Must Not Harm Small Business" and am livid. In the second paragraph, Titus delivers the line that "the high cost of health care" is dragging small NV businesses down. No, Dina. It's the high cost of health insurance that is dragging businesses and everyone else in the nation down. And the premiums have quadrupled, Congresswoman, not doubled. The status quo's end result will have small businesses soon priced out of the insurance market (as many individuals were) and both business owners and their employees will join the ranks of the uninsured. If Dina thinks that appeasing insurance companies by watering down the health care bill will help her constituents, then she isn't tough-minded enough for her job. She's caved and she'd like to have it both ways. There is no appeasing tyrants, Dina. The insurance companies monopoly on health care must be broken and a public option must be instituted. I don't buy your reasoning. We're both smarter than that.
keo10 writes: "So what were they arrested for anyway, not leaving her conference room? Shameless to arrest senior citizens wanting to speak to their Senator! Read More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
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OK, I read more and it says no, they weren't arrested after all.
Read more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
My sources indicate there's another shoe to drop re: Ensign, namely affairs with one or more women in addition to that which has been reported.
That would be a shock!
Then again, Senator Ensign says his parent often pay out large sums of money to people as "gifts," so...
This guy should team up with Heidi Fleiss at Dirty Dog. He's quite familiar with both, dogs and whores.