Another professional Christian GOP hypocrite caught having sex with someone other than his wife? Shocked, shocked I am! He should have just gotten Vitter to give him some phone numbers - less messy.

Zach, a better picture of Doug Hampton (standing with Senator Ensign!!) is here.

And as a bonus, scandal-ridden NV Governor Jim Gibbons is also in the picture!

http://www.southernhighlands.com/pdf/black_tie.pdf

Another thought:

Can you imagine Fox News receiving such a salacious letter about Chuck Schumer (the equivalent ranking Democrat to John Ensign in the Senate) and sitting on it for five days?

It appears that not only did Fox News sit on it, but they must have been the ones to tip Ensign off.

What I wanna know is what does the chippy look like?

Big boobs? She used 'em to get her family on the federal teat.

C'mon, let's see the goods...

I guess the "relentless pursuit" ended after her high heels caught in a carpet tear, sending her crashing into bed with her feet in the air.

Larry Craig took "vital relationships with other men" to new levels.

Hate to be the grammar police but, according to the Las Vegas Sun's editor's note, Sen. Ensign was engaged in a homosexual affair:

"Editor’s note: Doug Hampton, the husband of Cynthia Hampton, who had an affair with Sen. John Ensign, explains in a letter..."

The editor's note should probably read:

"Doug Hampton, the husband of the woman who had an affair with Sen. John Ensign, explains in a letter..."

But, hey, I'll be the first to admit their grammatically challenged version is a lot more fun.

It's sad how deluded these True Believers are--Hampton actually thinks FOX News is going to help him out? It appears they already have done what they could to help (the Republican Power structure) by sitting on the story.

I could have sought the most liberal, Republican hating media to expose this story, but there are people’s lives at stake and justice is about proper process as well as outcome.

And how naive is this money quote? Guess what Doug, you got it exactly wrong--you wanted 'proper process' and so you went to FOX Newz? That's so clueless that it makes me wonder how far Ensign had to go before Hampton finally chose to believe his lyin' eyes.

The Repuglican party and its beggars and hangers-on all seem to have taken their credo from Otter in Animal House:

"You fucked up. You trusted us!"

Citoyen92:

In some of your comments on my posts, you're saying that Cindy Hampton worked with Chris Ward as assistant treasurer at NRCC. That would be very interesting if true, but I can't verify.

When I follow your comments back to what you posted on Firedoglake in 07, it looks like what you found at the time is that Ward and Hampton worked together at Senate Majority Committee, not that Hampton worked at NRCC.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/08/the-nrcc-meltdown-an-introduction/#comment-51606

It wouldnt be surprising that they worked together at Senate Majority Committe, since Ward worked for alot of senators' PACs, and we know Hampton worked for several of Ensign's outfits, thru the Doug connection. But am i missing evidence that she worked at NRCC too?

Thanks.

This whole thing seems to work out something like this:

1. Doug Hampton is a big dog working for Ensign.
Doug's wife is also a big dog working for Ensign.
2. Ensign has an affair with Doug's wife.
3. This is very awkward and Doug and wife leave Ensign's employment and big dog jobs.
4. Doug needs job, which Ensign fixes up.
5. Time passes, real estate market crashes.

6. Doug's Las Vegas manse is now assessed at $865k with a $1.2 mil mortgage on it.
(As a rough rule-of-thumb, mortgage pmts in ordinary times are about 1% per month.
Let's say $12,000 per month or more.)
7. Doug is no longer a big dog and is very strapped for cash.
8. Money is the #1 cause of marital discord.
9. Doug now has no house, no marriage and insignificant job.

8. Meanwhile, Ensign is running for President.

In sum, the cuckolded victim and not the hypocrite adulterer loses everything and says WTF!

I am betting there are a few more shoes to drop, possibly high heels.

I called BS on the single source blackmail allegation on the 16th when Alternet first regurgitated it. Here:http://www.alternet.org/blogs/sex/140718/republican_sen._john_ensign_had_extramarital_affair/?comments=

It blew me away that an otherwise respectable lefty publication would simply parrot such obviously self-serving crap without caveat.

Thanks for some actual journalism, TPM.

Has anyone actually read the letter? It's like the guy thinks his wife wasn't even in the decision loop on whether to get busy with Ensign. Apparently, either she's just Hampton's remote control, or else Ensign used some sort of Sith mind control power to rob her of all volition. In that way rich white Republican men have, it is really insulting to his wife, and to women generally, and he probably doesn't even realize it.

Funny how FOX was the first to get the story and the last to report it!