Senator John Ensign, R NV Family Values

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The Senate Ethics Committee released its report on the John Ensign investigation.
This is from page 65 of the Senate Ethics Committee report: (Emphasis mine)

"Senator Ensign had enormous power over Ms. Hampton. He controlled the sole sources of income for both Ms. Hampton and her husband.84 He controlled separate payments made on the Hamptons behalf so that their children could attend an expensive private school with the Ensign children. He had strong personal ties to the entire Hampton family as well. Ms. Hampton testified that the affair caused her considerable emotional distress, that the Senator was extremely persistent in seeking to continue it, that she never initiated any contact with the
Senator, and that if he had ended his pursuit of her after they were first confronted at Christmas 2007, the affair would have ended then soon after it began. Ms. Hampton testified that she became very despondent after the affair was first discovered (a fact Mr. Hampton confirmed),
and that the Senator would not stop, kept calling and calling, and would not take no for an answer. If the affair had ended when the Senator had first committed to end it, the likelihood that it would have led to the Hamptons being terminated from their employment would have
been greatly reduced, if not entirely eliminated.1"

Another shining example of "Family Values" at work.

The Committee ends it's report with a call to the Justice Department to renew their investigation.  The Justice Dept. in December of last year cleared John Ensign of any wrongdoing.?  (Is this the same Justice Dept. that can't find any illegalities in the financial collapse?)  Cenk Uygur sums up John Ensigns family values and connections to C street in this clip

John Ensign, family values man finally resigns

Disgraced Senator John Ensign resigned last April from the senate.  This is the Senator from Nevada that had an affair with the wife of his chief of staff in D.C. two years ago.  He came under fire for a 96,000 dollar check that his parents wrote to his former chief of staff.  Was the check severance pay, hush money or a gift as his parents were saying.  The disgraced senator resigned exactly one day before he was due to testify before the senate ethic committee regarding the check.  Surprisingly, the committee stated its intent to pursue the investigation even after Senator Ensign's resignation. 

Here are some famous Senator John Ensign, family values spokesman quotes.

"I have never felt like I broke any laws or ethics rules."

“I believe that marriage should be defined as that between one man and one woman. You want to do what is ideal for children and all of the studies show that the ideal for children is to be in a household with a father and a mother.”  That is a complete lie.  Almost all studies show their is no difference in Hetero or Gay households with children.  See the American Psychology Association for a wealth of relevant studies.  Please note the APA doesn't have any studies on  households with a father, mother and mistress. 


He also publicly urged President Clinton to resign after his Monica Lowinsky affair saying: "he has no credibility left."  This from the senator who continued to serve 2 years after his affair became public knowledge. 

My apologies for the poor photograph.  Most of the .gov photos have been deleted.  But I did find this thumbnail from the Budget Committee.  Don't you feel better knowing Senator John Ensign has been working on our budget?