rssEnsign Blames CREW for Ethics Woes
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 5:36 pm
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Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) is raising money for a legal defense fund to fight the numerous ethics charges against him. In his appeal he blames Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which he refers to as “a liberal organization,” for his present troubles, and says he’s been “accused of doing things I absolutely did not do.”
In response, CREW’s Director Melanie Sloan released the following statement:
“Senator Ensign had an extended affair with a campaign staffer, who happened to be married to his chief of staff Doug Hampton, fired them both, and had his parents pay them off without properly reporting it to the Federal Election Commission. He then conspired to help Mr. Hampton to set up a lobbying business to lobby his own office, in violation of federal law. So what exactly are the things that Senator Ensign is being accused of that he did not do?”
There’s not much more to add to that.
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Comment posted August 14, 2010 @ 6:29 am
So, Ensign……..
CREW made all that stuff up. You didn't really do all those unethical things….CREW just snatched them out of thin air……..Like the statements your staffers made, the paper trail you left behind, and the accusations the husband of the MARRIED woman you were unfaithful to your wife with, made, like getting him a job, like a bribe, to keep his mouth shut?
Yeah, Johnnie boy. CREW really has it in for you.
But how can that be, when your out-of-control libido is your own worst enemy?
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Comment posted August 16, 2010 @ 3:20 pm
Ensign is such an unethical sleaze bag creep…sounds like he's in total denial…of course, Of course, the “Personal responsibility and accountablility” Republican mantra is just hollow sloganeering as far a Ensign is concerned.
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