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twitterNo-show by Ensign not fully explained
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 | 2 a.m.
In the weeks leading up to the Brookings Institution forum at UNLV, the agendas included a grand finale entitled “Getting It Done: A Dialogue Between Mega Las Vegas Leaders and Nevada Senators.” Nevada’s two U.S. senators were listed as participants.
But Sen. John Ensign never showed. The reason announced at the event was a scheduling conflict.
A spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid, Jon Summers, said Reid’s office received an e-mail Friday saying Ensign would not attend. The e-mail provided no explanation.
Ensign’s Washington office said Ensign was in Nevada, but spokesman Tory Mazzola declined to elaborate on the senator’s schedule.
Mazzola said by e-mail that Ensign planned to remain in Nevada today “meeting with constituents and talking with a variety of Nevada radio and television stations.”
Ensign’s spokeswoman in Las Vegas, Sari Mann, did not return repeated messages left for her by the Las Vegas Sun.
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The Ensignificant is too busy trying to wash the Ted Stevens stench out of his clothes and trying to figure out how the Repuglican party can reinvent itself.
Here's an idea: Palin-Ensignificant in 2012.
The scheduling conflict occurred when there was an opening for a full service day with tanning bed, hair stylist and facial at his SPA.
To Ensign; "Looking good always trumps doing good works".
or maybe because he knew 150 people would be wasting their time: http://npri.org/blog/running-in-circles
Ensign was working on his golf handicap and figuring out where to hide come election day when the Democrats obtain a filibuster majority in the Senate.
So... his choices were, spend the day in the same room with Harry Reid or bail out. DUH.