But wait---It gets BETTER: Ensign helped mistress's husband get jobs

[Earth Bound Misfit]

(Apologize in advance if this has already been posted)

Ensign helped mistress's husband get jobs

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY, Associated Press Writer Kathleen Hennessey, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 37 mins ago

LAS VEGAS – Sen. John Ensign helped his mistress's husband get two jobs during the time the rising Republican senator acknowledges carrying on an extramarital affair, an Ensign spokesman said Thursday.

"Just as he has done for many other staff members, Senator Ensign made recommendation calls for Mr. Hampton," Ensign spokesman Tory Mazzola said in a statement. Mazzola was responding to questions about the employment of Doug Hampton, a former aide to the Nevada senator.

Ensign on Tuesday admitted having a nine-month affair with Doug Hampton's wife, Cindy, who also worked for the senator. Ensign's office has said that both Cindy and Doug Hampton left their jobs in May 2008, and the affair ended in August 2008.

In the months after leaving his post, Doug Hampton quickly landed two positions with companies connected to Ensign.

One, a consulting firm that ran Ensign's 2006 campaign, acknowledges the senator encouraged the company to hire Doug Hampton.

A Las-Vegas based airline whose executives have contributed money to the senator declined to comment on whether Ensign was involved in Doug Hampton's employment.

Doug Hampton's easy transition from the political to corporate worlds isn't unusual. It does, however, raise questions about to what extent Ensign used his influence to assist two former employees who could have done damage to his career.

Mazzola did not respond to requests for more detail on the senator's involvement.

A lawyer for the Hamptons declined to comment Thursday. The couple released a statement Wednesday criticizing Ensign's disclosure of the affair, saying they "did everything possible to keep this matter private."

Ensign's office disputed the account and said Doug Hampton had approached a television media organization.

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Doug and Cindy Hampton's son, Brandon, also works for the airline, Squyres confirmed. She would not say how he got the job in the company's call center.

Brandon Hampton also previously worked for Ensign, the former chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Records show the committee made twice-monthly payments, generally $500 apiece, to Brandon Hampton. The payments began in March of last year and ended in August, when Ensign's office says the affair ended.

Federal records also show that around the time of the affair, Cindy Hampton, received a promotion and a pay raise at one political entity controlled by Ensign, as well as a pay raise at a second.

ETA link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090618/ap_on_re_us/us_ensign_affair

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicon Homelander Family Values

Go every which way but integrity

[Earth Bound Misfit]

16. "Republicon Homelander Family Values"

Now include How to make your subordinate a cuckold

[MisterP]

2. didn't Leopold II of Belgium's mistress do something like this? and isn't this pimping? n/t

[Earth Bound Misfit]

10. Leopold I & II....

Leopold I, the first Belgian king, had a mistress, Arcadie Cadet, for whom he arranged a marriage with an officer from his staff, Friedrich Meyer. Arcadie Meyer gave birth to two illegitimate royal children, Georges and Arthur. The king gave Arcadie and her children a nobility title, "Barron of Eppinghoven". Her descendants are living in Canada. Leopold II also had two illegitimate children with his mistress Blanche Delacroix, whom he married on his death bed. Lucien Delacroix became Duke of Tervuren, Philippe Delacroix Count of Ravenstein.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Perhaps Ensign was dating the husband

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. A repug doing something like that?

What are you thinking?

:sarcasm:

:rofl:

[Number23]

5. Kung fu kick and Rec. This just keeps getting better

[Earth Bound Misfit]

7. See reply #6...

"While working for Ensign's Battle Born PAC, Cynthia Hampton made nearly $700 per pay period for much of 2007. In February 2008, that doubled to almost $1,400."


:kick:

[kestrel91316]

9. A modestly priced hooker........

[Earth Bound Misfit]

17. ....

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6. "Hoisted" by his own petard...

Another RepubliCON homelander FRAUD exposed.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/17/ensign-resigns-gop-leadership-post/

While working for Ensign's Battle Born PAC, Cynthia Hampton made nearly $700 per pay period for much of 2007. In February 2008, that doubled to almost $1,400.

[kestrel91316]

8. You mean the PIMP?

[Raine]

12. Yeah I wonder if this guy pimped his wife

out to Ensign cause insiders already knew he was a big womanizer.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

19. That's the ONE n/t

[annabanana]

11. So now his sin is not just hypocrisy and being a rotten husband

Now it's public corruption.

[Cha]

13. It's a family

affair.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

18. Heh.

[Thrill]

14. FEC needs to be investigating this.

[Third Doctor]

15. Shorty the pimp

Walks with a limp.

[MiniMe]

20. AND her 19 year old son

Ensign is in trouble