Sen. Ensign's Breakup Letter to Mistress Emerges
(AP)
"God never intended us to do this," Ensign wrote in the handwritten letter, which was obtained by the Las Vegas Sun. "I walked away from Him + my relationship with Him has suffered terribly. I know He loves me + I know He loves you. He wants to restore [wife] Darlene + me + wants to restore Doug + you."
Ensign also said he "justified my actions because I blamed by wife."
The "Doug" referenced in the letter is Doug Hampton, who along with his wife Cynthia were staffers for the senator. The Sun reported Wednesday that Hampton said Ensign would not give up the affair even after intermediaries tried to get him to do so, among them Sen. Tom Coburn, a fellow conservative Republican.
Coburn's office released a statement that the senator "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 Hampton’s marriage."
"Had Senator Ensign followed Dr. Coburn’s advice, this episode would have ended, and been made public, long ago," the statement continued.
Watch part of Jon Ralston's interview with Hampton from CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS-TV at left.
The Sun also reports that Hampton says his wife was paid more than $25,000 in severance after leaving Ensign's office, a potential violation of campaign finance law if it went unreported to the appropriate campaign committees.
The affair began while the Hamptons were staying at the Coburns' home following a break-in at their home, according to Doug Hampton, and was revealed to him when he saw a text message. Ensign and Cynthia Hampton were reportedly "bonded by their conservative evangelical faith."
Ensign's office claims that "Doug Hampton's legal counsel made exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits." Hampton sent a letter to Fox News in June saying Ensign had ruined the life and career of himself and his wife and that he needs "justice, help and restitution for what Senator Ensign has done to me and my family."
Hampton told the Sun that Ensign disavowed the breakup letter excerpted above soon after sending it and continued with the affair. He claims the senator told him at the time that he was in love with Cynthia.
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See all 23 CommentsMaybe if they were all limited to a single term and never be permitted to hold another elective or appointed government office again? That wouldn't stop them from cheating, but it wouldn't have any effect on anyone but themselves.
God loves him! And a plus b minus c and c plus d makes Jesus happy!
These guys are starting to spin these to attempt to placate the Christian base as they know no one else cares and the people that think they are just gross pigs and hypocrites are against them anyway.
I knew he had to be good for some more copy since the other one kind of flamed out last week- poor Gov. Sanford- he's fixing it all up for Jesus too!
I feel sorry for the naive simpletons that actually swallow their hornswaggle.
Ensign needs to resign today. He should take his enabler Coburn with him.
So.... we can take it that if/when Republicans proclaim bonding by their conservative evangelical faith, what they really mean is that they are literally as well as figuratively screwwwwwwing each other? LMAO
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/08/spouse-ensign-affair-says-senator-should-resign/
God told him it was a sin; so he tried for six more months to quit sinning.
Bet he hopes there is more to the Sarah Palin story then just ...stupid is as stupid does...Maybe she went "hiking on the Iditarod Trail"....wink, wink. Any betchas?
And as far as those 10 commandments go; they have been conveniently deleted from the neocon texts!
HAIL OBAMA???????
So here's a lesson for all you single women out there who think that marriage to some conservative Republican spouting family values is a great deal. If your hubby ever goes astray, rest assured that none of his buddies and their wives will lift a finger to help you, they will side with your hubby against you, and watch while you are made a fool of.
Rather than just coming out with it, getting it over with, and moving on; they release information a little bit at a time on the theory that the public will think less kindly of THEM and be more ACCEPTING of it!
Well...I've got news for them...it's NOT WORKING!
So, he "used you for my own pleasure"--- meaning Mrs.Hampton! After having done THAT, in what is an intimately personal relationship, is there ANY
doubt, that he doesn't do the same to the voters, in what is a remotely IMPERSONAL relationship?! Yes, it's safe to assume he could care less about the public or his constituents!
Upon this news, any doubts I might have had about what should happen to this man, exist no more! I think he should be KICKED OUT if he fails to RESIGN!
Congress is being over-run with these unappreciative, overpaid, egotistical do-nothings! It's looking more and more like the local
jail than the seat of government for the most powerful nation in the world!
The business of the nation cannot be done when these "people" have their time devoted to getting into trouble!
Mr. Ensign, and the rest of Congresses' 'low-lifes' need to RESIGN!
OR, the public NEEDS TO KICK THEM OUT, or VOTE THEM OUT!
yes ... it's kinda like that.
the only difference is what you're preaching to everyone else while you yourself are 'living in sin'.
hope that helps
What is clear though, is that he and his christian evangelical supporters sure care about what (or whether) I believe and who I sleep with. Never mind foreign policy, domestic policy, good government, the environment, whatever. If I just say I believe and profess heterosexual monogamy then I must be a good candidate.
Hypocrites!
When will they ever learn?
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