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tangent4ronpaul
04-21-2011, 07:21 PM
Nevada Senator Ensign Announces Resignation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-22/nevada-senator-ensign-announces-resignation-effective-may-3-1-.html

Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada, saying he wanted to spare his family the emotional “wear and tear” of an ongoing ethics investigation into an extramarital affair, announced today that he would resign his office.

The resignation will take effect May 3, according to a statement on his website.

Ensign, 53, a veterinarian first elected to the Senate in 2000, said in March that he wouldn’t seek a third term next year.

He had disclosed in June 2009 that he had had an affair with a campaign worker, Cindy Hampton, whose husband, Doug, was an aide on Ensign’s Senate staff. The Justice Department last December said Ensign was no longer a target of a probe into whether a severance payment he made to Cindy Hampton was an illegal campaign contribution.

The Senate Select Committee on Ethics, though, continued looking into allegations stemming from the matter. In February, the ethics panel signaled it was intensifying its probe by hiring an outside counsel to assist in the investigation, which could have led to public hearings. With Ensign’s resignation, the committee will lose its jurisdiction over him.

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eduardo89
04-21-2011, 07:22 PM
Good. Now he'll be replaced with another police state scumbag.