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twitterThe Senator’s Scandal:
Hampton portrays Ensign as relentless
Leila Navidi
Doug Hampton is a former senior aide to Sen. John Ensign and is married to the woman with whom the senator admitted to having an affair.
Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 2 a.m.
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- Unanswered: Why he told (6-18-2009)
- Ensign resigns GOP leadership post (6-17-2009)
- Ensign fallout could weaken GOP efforts to rebuild party at state, national levels (6-17-2009)
- Ensign's mea culpa tops bad day for GOP (6-17-2009)
- Ensign acknowledges extramarital affair (6-16-2009)
Doug Hampton spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about the affair his wife had with Sen. John Ensign, alleging that the Nevada Republican engaged in a lengthy and calculated series of deceptions despite repeated attempts to get him to stop.
Hampton’s comments, his first since Ensign publicly disclosed the affair last month, came during a two-part interview with Sun columnist Jon Ralston on “Face to Face With Jon Ralston.” The first part began airing Wednesday and concludes today. Broadcasts of part two are at 5:30, 6:30 and 8 p.m. today on Cox Cable channel 19.
Hampton’s comments generally followed the allegations he made last month in a letter to Fox News. But the Ralston interview filled in many details and included one allegation that could cause Ensign serious legal problems. Hampton claimed that Ensign paid Cynthia Hampton considerably more than $25,000 in severance when she was told to leave her job with Ensign’s campaign committee in April 2008. Ensign did not report the payment, as required by law, according to a Washington watchdog group.
Beyond the severance claim, Hampton’s account shows Ensign as calculating and relentless in his pursuit of the affair.
Indeed, Hampton confronted Ensign on several occasions, including a scene on Christmas Eve 2007 in which both couples and their children, staying together at the Ensign home in Summerlin, discussed the infidelity, which Hampton said he discovered only the day before.
Despite the confrontation, the affair went on for many months. Ensign has said it lasted until August 2008.
Ensign, heading into a meeting Wednesday afternoon with fellow GOP senators, declined to comment: “I don’t have anything to say.” His office issued a one-sentence release: “In response to today’s television interview, Senator Ensign said Doug Hampton was consistently inaccurate in his statements.”
At the time of the affair, Cynthia Hampton was treasurer of Ensign’s political action committee and reelection campaign; Doug Hampton served as a senior aide on Ensign’s Senate staff. The two families had been close friends for years.
Hampton said that as the affair continued into the winter of 2008, he asked intermediaries to urge Ensign to stop. In February, Hampton said, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and others at the Christian fellowship house where Ensign stays when in Washington confronted Ensign. The Nevada senator responded by writing a note of apology to Cynthia Hampton.
Doug Hampton said Coburn told Ensign he needed to pay off the mortgage on their $1.2 million Las Vegas home and move them to Colorado.
Instead, after sending the note to Cynthia Hampton, who was then in Las Vegas, Ensign flew to Nevada and resumed the affair the next day, Doug Hampton said.
The allegation of the large severance payment is a serious one. If true, Ensign faces a possible felony violation of campaign finance law for failing to report it as an in-kind contribution to the campaign committees where she worked, according to ethics complaints filed against him.
Willfully failing to report a contribution of more than $25,000 is a criminal violation subject to five years in prison, according to complaints filed last month by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
Campaign reports show no such in-kind payment from Ensign to either his personal campaign committee or his Battle Born leadership Political Action Committee, according to CREW, which filed complaints June 24 with the Federal Elections Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee.
In the interview, Hampton’s language indicated that a lawsuit is forthcoming.
“You’ll see all of this through this discovery,” he said at one point, using a word — discovery — often used to describe the deposition procedure of a lawsuit, which would involve under-oath testimony.
Hampton indicated that he considers his wife, who has not spoken about the matter publicly, a victim of coercion while she was working for Ensign.
Ensign “uses that as leverage to contact Cindy. She’s trying to get away from John, but he’ll leave messages like, ‘It is about your job; it is a work issue I need to talk about,’ ” he said.
Aside from potential legal snafus, Ensign faces deepening political problems. Ensign resigned his Senate GOP leadership post last month, and he has clearly alienated at least one Republican colleague. Coburn, a one-time ally who lives with Ensign in Washington, offered a sharply critical statement through a spokesman:
“Dr. Coburn did everything he could to encourage Senator Ensign to end his affair and to persuade Senator Ensign to repair the damage he had caused to his own marriage and the Hamptons’ marriage,” according to the statement. “Had Senator Ensign followed Dr. Coburn’s advice, this episode would have ended, and been made public, long ago.”
Other new details emerged during the Ralston interview. Hampton said the affair began while his family was staying at the Ensign home. Hampton said his family’s house was broken into just before Christmas 2007, at which time the Ensigns invited the Hamptons to stay with them in a nearby Summerlin neighborhood.
The families each have three children and their lives at the time were intertwined. The Hampton children referred to Ensign as an “uncle.” The couples shared a bond of conservative evangelical faith.
Hampton discovered the affair when he saw an incriminating text message, he said. But even after the Christmas Eve discussion involving both families, Hampton told Ralston, Ensign continued to pursue Cynthia Hampton with text messages and phone calls.
Hampton told Ralston that he later alerted Tim and David Coe and Marty Sherman of the Fellowship Foundation, a secretive but powerful Christian group in Washington, which owns the group house where Ensign, Coburn and several other powerful Christian conservatives live. The group confronted Ensign, who responded by writing the note, which a source confirmed to Ralston’s executive producer, Dana Gentry, had been written by the senator.
Despite the confrontation, the affair went on for many months.
The note, dated “Feb. 2008,” is filled with contrition: “I was completely self-centered and only thinking of myself. I used you for my own pleasure not letting thoughts of you, Doug, Brandon, Blake or Brittany come into my mind,” he wrote, referring to her husband and children.
The letter expresses strong religious sentiments, as well. “I walked away from Him and my relationship with Him has suffered terribly. I know He loves me and I know He loves you.”
After Ensign immediately took up with Cynthia Hampton again, Doug Hampton said, he confronted Ensign again, just a day after he had sent the note. Hampton said Ensign replied: “I’m in love with your wife. You can’t work for me anymore.”
Ensign’s wife, Darlene, began watching him closely, Doug Hampton said. He said Ensign then acquired other phones so he could call and text Cynthia Hampton undetected.
Some time later, according to Hampton, Ensign’s wife reached out to top Ensign political aide Mike Slanker, asking him to set up Hampton with political and lobbying work. Hampton told Ralston that Slanker was well aware of the affair.
At the time, Slanker was the top political consultant to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, of which Ensign was chairman. The committee’s goal was to elect Republicans that November. The party lost eight seats in the election.
A message left for Slanker by the Sun was not returned. Ralston reported that Slanker has denied knowing about the affair.
Later, Ensign helped Hampton get work at Allegiant Air, whose CEO has given tens of thousands of dollars to Ensign’s campaigns.
Hampton said he tried but failed to extricate himself from the situation, but acknowledged that he had few professional options and so he essentially became party to a cover-up.
He said his attorney has approached Ensign’s attorney because his family has suffered “anger, hurt and pain” and are falling further and further behind financially after losing their jobs. Hampton had been making $160,000 as a senior aide to Ensign.
With respect to the possibly illegal $25,000 severance, Ensign could argue that the payment was a gift, not a severance, which would make it not subject to campaign finance laws, though he would then be subject to IRS rules regarding large gifts.
Or, Ensign could have split the payment into two parts, Sloan said, which would lower the penalty for failure to report to a misdemeanor.
Nevada Republicans were again baffled by the day’s events. “Who is John Ensign?” said a Republican consultant granted anonymity to speak freely. “No one knows him.”
Sun reporter Torey Van Oot contributed to this report.
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What the heck is in the water out there in Sin City? How do you elect these Republican frauds like Ensign? Haven't you people, as street-smart and cynical as they come, learned that when someone tells you they're as honest as the day is long, that the first thing you do is palm your wallet? Well, when some whacked-out, right-wing, evangelical Republican tells you he believes in and supports "family values," you can probably find him a few hours later buying a threesome at the Mustang Ranch. Come on, Ensign's just a real poor example of a guy with a perpetual seven-year itch. Except he's so whacked out on his God-squad act that he's afraid to scratch it. Nevadans ought to dump Ensign if the bum doesn't resign. There's nothing wrong with a U.S. Senator having several girlfriends if he's unmarried. More power to him. But when he's married, and lecturing us on family values and God and all the rest of that evangelical spin, and getting it on the side from a woman who is his subordinate and paid with U.S. tax dollars, then there's a whole host of questions that lead one to conclude the obvious: Ensign is a sexual predator. A sexual predator. Mrs. Hampton could submit to Ensign's sexual pressures and demands or, as far too many women know, end up losing her job. Nevadans should get rid of this sexual predator named Ensign --- and send him back to his right-wing, Republican evangelical friends who believe a woman should be subservient to a man.
Why can't these guys keep it in their pants? And they have the effrontery to suggest that gay people want to destroy "the institution of marriage"-HAH!
mr23257 & rayy-
Exactly! How dare John Ensign tell us that we can't marry our committed life partners while he can't even respect his own marriage! I'd call on him to resign now, but that would mean Mr. "LuvGuv" Gibbons would then choose the replacement. Hooray for another GOP hypocrite.
ive always looked upon politicians as arrogant and self centered; whether the name is kennedy or ensign or vitter or craig, the results are always the same. i agree w/ RAYY on the institution of marriage being destroyed not by gays but by our own elected officials.
I agree with all above. Just one question though. Why wasn't this brought forward earlier and what role did Hampton's wife play? Can't she say NO???? Money, money, money is what this is about. Just wondering.....
Doug Hampton claims that Ensign forced Doug's wife to have an affair for 9 months.
It takes two to tango. No mention here of the Ensign's separation.
"Despite the confrontation, the affair went on for many months. Ensign has said it lasted until August 2008."
$25,000?
"Campaign reports show no such in-kind payment from Ensign to either his personal campaign committee or his Battle Born leadership Political Action Committee, according to CREW, which filed complaints June 24."
"Later, Ensign helped Hampton get work at Allegiant Air"
Jon I guess you got all the answers. Are we done yet
I'm having a major case of "schadenfreude." I love this. I really do.
Just watching these conservatives get hoisted by their own petard!
Why hasn't a case of sexual harrassment been filed? Ensign, the employer, in pursuing this affair, sexually harrassed his female employee who in fear for her job and livelihood succumbed to Ensign's advances. If it were some CEO carrying on in this manner, the government would be all over it ... but now it's a member of the government doing the deed and they're doing nothing. He broke his sacred vow of marriage, he broke at least two of the 10 commandments, and he may have broken the law. This is NOT a good christian and if he's bringing all this out now just because he believes voters have short term memories and all will be good for a 2012 run at the Presidency or Vice Presidency ... he'd better think again!
I'm sorry, I definitely don't believe in infidelity but Doug Hampton is a huge loser. How many people get cheated on then go cry to the media about how their spouse is "just devastated by this and can't even believe it happened." Boohoo, someone help me, my wife can't stop effing Senator Ensign! She doesn't want to eff him, but she can't stop."
This guy is in huge denial about his wife, and everytime he talks about it in the media he demasculates himself further. Have some dignity, divorce your cheating wife if you need to, and move on.
I watched Face to Face, I can't even believe this guy is just looking like a complete user who stuck around for money. Who goes on vacation with their wife's lover anyways?
Hey chauvinistic guys, Cynthia Hampton is a GROWN WOMAN with a FREE WILL. This is the 21st century. Stop treating her like a low-mentality pawn. It's her body and it doesn't belong to her husband nor to her lover. Respect her right to determine her own destiny.
Wow. Ensign really shows who the promise keepers are.
Ensign is a corrupt sexual predator. Shouldn't he have to register somewhere?
"Doug Hampton said Coburn told Ensign he needed to pay off the mortgage on their $1.2 million Las Vegas home and move them to Colorado."
Once that thought was planted in Doug Hampton's mind, I'm sure that's all he's cared about since. Hell I bet at that point he even encouraged his wife to continue. His role here seems a little pimpish to me.
Just another Christian idiot touting "Faith" in his political decision making while he can't walk the walk. These guys are great at using religion to push agendas and judge people until they are on the hot seat. Wasn't John one of the first people to demand a Clinton resignation? He should do the same and fall on his own sword. Wasn't Mrs. Hampton responsible for any part of this? How could he pursue her if she wasn't accepting the advances? Her husband confronted Ensign and she continued having an affair???
"No mention here of the Ensign's separation."
Considering the affair began prior to the separation, the Ensign separation ended in July, but the affair didn't end for a month later, I'm curious as to why you think that excuses Ensign's activity, Future.
And now that we know Ensign's hand-written letter talking about how God wanted to "restore" Ensign and his wife, but the affair didn't end for another six months, I'm not sure Ensign will be welcome in any church anytime soon.
Not to make any excuse for Ensigns behavior but, some reporters seem to take real glee in jeering the subject of their report. It's an old cliche but somewhere back in Sunday school you'd think they'd have gone over this "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone." Don't get me wrong I feel for the family's evolved and as a voter I'm furious, but maybe we could get some honest confessions from the Sun's own staff about work place affairs along with the haughty persecution of anyone not a journalist.
ksand99,
I know you're not familiar with churches or the Bible, but they don't turn sinners away. Churches will embrace Ensign and follow the example set in the Bible.
Of course some reporters "take real glee" in reporting Ensign's problems, but since Ensign & his fellow right wingers are this nation's primary "stone throwers" I don't blame them. There may be plenty of affairs among the Sun's staff, but as far as I know, the Sun staff isn't shoving family values & traditional morals down our throats.
Again, the Sun refuses to let a non-story go. Ensign has publicly said he screwed the man's wife, let her husband go after he tried extorting thousands, and has asked his family to forgive him, which apparently they have. This story lost mileage weeks ago.
Doug Hampton comes across as a pathetic shakedown artist.
Grow Up, Doug! Move on.
What John did was wrong---what you are doing is worse.
Bentley
But Bentley, Doug's wife didn't want to eff Ensign, but he just wouldn't stop texting her! So Doug had to run around Washington asking people to make Ensign stop effing his wife! She couldn't just ignore the texts. Don't you see? Doug's wife is devastated by what happened! She can't believe what happened! And even though his wife and Ensign were effing, that didn't stop him from going on vacations together because their families were so intertwined!
He's such a big loser! He totally sounds like he was pimping his wife out after the fact. "If I could just be compensated for him effing my wife I would feel a lot better."
As if he and his wife have not been riding on the Ensigns coattails for YEARS.
Ensign lives at the Christian Fellowship house on C street, whose owners pay no property tax because they have set themselves up as a church so consequently the boarders pay relatively low rent. I guess praying at the dinner table makes them a church. This whole story would be smarmy beyond belief no matter who was involved, but of course more so because it involves a self righteous, sanctimonious, self called evangelical Christian who just loves to tell everybody else about how he reveres the sanctity of marriage. Ensign also seems to know what is best for the rest of us and his colleagues in matters of the flesh and relationships. I guess for him, marriage should be between a man and a woman and a mistress. Hypocrisy aside, the money thing wil probably bring abut his political demise. The next time this group gets around the dinner table on C street to pray, I hope they ask God to spare the rest of us from elected officials like Ensign.
Henderson,
I agree. I normally don't blog but this guy Hampton hits a new low, wanting "to be made whole", gimme a break. Everybody wants to be enriched at somebody else's expense.
I'm an employer. If I had one job opening and Doug Hampton and John Ensign were applying, I'd hire John Ensign hands down. How could any employer ever trust Doug Hampton?? The guy is toxic.
I've also worked on Capitol Hill--the AA post in any House or Senate Office is critically important to the Member and his/her constituents. You normally put a person in that post who has great ability, integrity, and loyalty. Well, we all make hiring mistakes---it seems the hiring of Hampton in the first place was one of John's. That's okay---we own up to our mistakes and we move on.
Bentley
With today's double barreled shots at Senator Ensign, from the Sun and the RJ, I sense that greater pressure is building on Senator Ensign to resign.
No one should forget that under Article 5, Section 8 of the Nevada Constitution, if Senator Ensign resigns, Governor Gibbons has the duty and power to appoint his successor.
Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil some moron will appoint in his place.
Just a thought.
CynicalObserver,
As someone who has never liked Ensign as a senator because of the way he votes on most bills, I don't want him to resign and mainly for the reason you mentioned. I do, however, hope he does not get re-elected. Someone worse may take his place in 2012, but I'd rather that be left up to the voters and not Governor Gibbons. But, as I posted, the money thing may give him no choice but to step down early.
Lisa Mascaro is Reporting:
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma today denied assertions by the husband of Sen. John Ensign's mistress that he encouraged the Nevada senator to pay the family money to help them go away.
Coburn called Doug Hampton's claims "absolute untruths," though the senator did not dispute having intervened in February 2008 to counsel Ensign about the affair.
"I categorically deny his statement," Coburn told a small group of reporters outside the Senate chamber. Coburn also denied he was present when Ensign wrote the one-page, handwritten break-up note to the woman, Cynthia Hampton, that the Las Vegas Sun released yesterday along with columnist Jon Ralston's exclusive interview with Doug Hampton.
So do we believe Jon Ralston or Lisa Mascaro - Who does the LV Sun believe
I believe that Doug Hampton is trying to make it sound like the money was Senator Coburn's idea rather than his own. He probably thinks it makes him look like less of a doooshbag. But it doesn't.
no one has talked to cynthia hampton....that is a lousy investigation into the facts and a p-poor job done by ralston getting to the bottom of the issue....
mrs. hampton is unavailable for comment???? or is she buried in the back yard? if she did not want ensign's attention then she should not have encouraged him in the first place.....I blame her for the affair, not him... she was in control, not him!
ralston do something constructive and get to the bottom of all the unread bills passed in washington that are killing the taxpayers and losing millions of jobs....get out of people's bedrooms!
isthis4real:
Cynthia Hampton is probably in hiding and embarrassed to death that her husband is running all over tv letting everyone know what a dooshbag he is. That's probably why she cheated on him in the first place.
Plenty of blame to go-round, however most of it deserves to be placed of the shoulders of Senator John Ensign. . . he has become a Evil,Wicked,Lying,Cheating,Spining, Butt of Hypocrisy jokes that NEVADA VOTERS. . . can no longer ignore or tolerate. Would you let your wife or daughter work with/for Senator John Ensign?
I get it from the republican apologists. Everything is the fault of Cynthia and Doug Hampton (and probably Barack Obama, too).
And, I get it from the non-republican apologists. Everything is John Ensign's fault.
Here's a review:
The Ensigns and Hamptons are old friends and neighbors. John Ensign hires Cynthia and Doug Hampton to work for his office and on his campaigns. Ensign pays the Hamptons hundreds of thousands of dollars to work for him. Maybe he feels the return on his investment is not high enough. Maybe he thinks he needs to work out a better deal? Who knows, except we do know Ensign decides to pursue Cynthia Hampton for some after hours relaxation.
After a couple of months John Ensign writes a humble letter admitting he used her for his own pleasure and accepting 100% responsibility in pursuing Mrs. Hampton. He even invokes the name of God and claims that God wants to restore relationships.
It is also suggested by Senator Coburn that John Ensign pay off the Hampton's mortgage (some $1,200,000) so they could move on with their lives. Sounds like Sen. Coburn is suggesting a bribe. (Yep, I do believe Hampton as all politicians lie.)
And then John Ensign goes back to pursuing and screwing Cynthia Hampton, not once, but for SIX MORE MONTHS. During this time John Ensign give a pay raise to Cynthia Hampton and hires her 19 year old son to work for the republican party as a consultant (makes one wonder why the republicans only lost 8 seats in the US Senate in the fall elections!). When the affair is over - for whatever reasons - John Ensign fires Doug, Cynthia and Brandon Hampton, though he gives Cynthia a $25,000 severance package.
I'm sure he is still spending way too much time focusing on Cynthia Hampton and how to get out from under this cloud that is raining on his career, his family and his constituents in Nevada. The man looks like a walking / talking time bomb ready to explode from the pressure being exerted upon him and his family for him to step down.
OK, three points:
Darlene Ensign's husband, "Promise Keeper" and Senator John Ensign, paid for sex, broke God's law, broke his marriage vows, and probably broke ethic's law(s).
After the suggestion made by Senator Coburn, Doug Hampton saw dollar signs, lots of dollar signs and figured he could cash in.
Apologists - whether just Ensign apologists or generic republican apologists - need to stay on topic, that of Senator John Ensign's infidelity and untrustworthiness.
Maybe John Ensign will see the light and resign and then Jim Gibbons, our very own Love Gov, will appoint Dawn Gibbons to the Senate seat to persuade her to be quiet about his infidelity and untrustworthiness.
LVRocks,
You say to stay on topic. I think the fact that Doug Hampton is making a dooshbag of himself is very on topic. Also, according to your synopsis (thanks for that, I guess you thought we needed a recap), Ensign paid for sex. That makes Cynthia Hampton a hooker, and her husband a pimp for requesting money for his wife's services.
I also find it very hard to believe that anyone would suggest that Ensign should give Doug Hampton millions. That is the worst advice in the world, and I don't believe Coburn suggested that. This couple, after all, had been riding on Ensigns coattails for years.
By the way, I'm not making excuses for Ensign at all. I am completely disappointed with him. I just can't help but feel that Doug Hampton has turned out to be the worst of the lot in this episode of Jerry Springer.
Service the account at home and none of this would be an issue.. When not getting serviced you look elsewhere for that.
I don't like three of the four "players" - John Ensign, Doug Hampton nor Cynthia Hampton - only Darlene gets a pass since she doesn't seem to be an active participant.
As for Doug Hampton, I can only speak from my experience.
I once had a girlfriend who was forced into sex by a co-worker. She finally told me why she was upset. I wanted to take a baseball bat to the guy's "well you know what." She stopped me and asked me to allow her to handle the "situation." Nothing was ever resolved and this experience and her lack of fortitude to confront him resulted in the break up of our relationship. I was never happy about either the forced sex nor the lack of accountability nor the passive role I played.
I think John Ensign and Doug Hampton deserve each other. But only John Ensign was voted US Senator from Nevada as a "family values" politician. If he was still a Veterinarian, this is a a non-story. Which is why I think John Ensign needs to resign.
In statement released Thursday, Paul Coggins says Ensign's parents made the gifts "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during difficult time."
Coggins says the gift was made in the form of a check totaling $96,000 in April 2008, after the Nevada Republican had told his parents of his affair.
Where was Jon Ralston on this he is missing half the story
LVRocks,
Please don't repeat that story. Unless your girlfriend was raped, she was not forced into sex by a coworker.
If it was rape, the police should have been contacted.
Forced sex is rape by definition. If it wasn't rape, it was by choice.
henderson,
True story from 20+ years ago
I was trying to be more polite, but, well, yes, she was raped. She refused to go to the police because the perpetrator was a powerful figure in the company.
Hmm . . . Is this beginning to sound more like the Ensign story?
LVRocks, that's terrible! However, I think maybe you might be better off today that the relationship ended. No career or woman is worth that nightmare!
Your experience is very different than what is going on here. Doug Hampton's wife wasn't raped. She's just a very dirty tramp who couldn't ignore text messages.
Ensign and Gibbons, Laurel and Hardy,
Goes together well.
Perhaps the Mustang Ranch would be a good place for these two high ranking republicans.
henderson, just to clarify...one does not necessarily have to be physically assaulted in order to be raped.
The incident outlined by the poster is an example of rape/sexual assault under the color of authority. It happens all the time...bosses, teachers, police, etc. In fact, it just happened with a USBP agent in California a few weeks ago.
1) Where are the checks?
2) Where are the deposit slips?
3) Where are the saved emails and text messages?
4) Where are the rest of the letters?
5) Where is Cindy?
6) Where is Doug living; with or without Cindy?
7) Where is Darlene; with or without John?
8) Where are the other staff members in both Senate and Campaign organizations who know even more?
9) Where are the tapes?
10) Where are John Ensign's answers to these and other questions?
The electing public wants to know.
henderson,
Thanks. Yeah, I moved on - though it took a while. To the best of my knowledge, she didn't or couldn't move on.
You're right, Cynthia Hampton is no better than John Ensign, except, it was Ensign, not either of the Hamptons, who was elected to public office.
Cindy can always file a sexual harassment charge if the civil suit
is not settled to the Hampton's satisfaction.
The fact that she is the only one not talking seems ominous
for Ensign.
"henderson, just to clarify...one does not necessarily have to be physically assaulted in order to be raped."
Only politican that I know that has been accused of actual rape is Bill Clinton.
I still say that all politicians should be held to the same codes of conduct (and law) as that of the military.
Punitive Articles of the UCMJ
Article 134-- Adultery
Maximum punishment:
Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 1 year.
And, they should also forfeit their lifetime benefits from the US government!
Republicans: they talk the talk, but do they walk the walk?
Rock,
My point is that Cindy Hampton is a dirty, dirty, cheating tramp, NOT a rape victim.
Cindy Hampton is a prostitute, her husband Doug is both her pimp and a prostitute, Darlene Ensign is a prostitute, and John is a womanizing whore. Best Friends Forever. And six innocent children will be paying for their parents' deeds.
What did Darlene Ensign do wrong other than marry a cheater?
It has been reported that Ensign was separated from his wife before the affair started.
It has not been determined why they were separated.
In one letter to his mistress, Ensign blamed his wife for him having this affair. He did not list the reason why he was blaming his wife. It sounds lame anyway.
"It has been reported that Ensign was separated from his wife before the affair started."
It was reported by Ensign's own spokesperson that the affair began BEFORE the separation, and didn't end until the month AFTER Darlene and Ensign reconciled.
"John and Darlene Ensign were separated from April to July 2008, the senator's spokesman, Tory Mazzola, confirmed Tuesday evening."
"That would indicate the affair began five months before the couple separated and ended a month after they got back together."
http://www.lvrj.com/news/48193607.html
Again, jfNance32, err, SgtRock, err, James F Nance Jr plays it fast and loose with the facts. I wonder why he's trying to mislead everyone...