Via Politico.com: John Ensign’s parents paid $96k to his mistress
Sen. John Ensign’s parents shelled out big bucks to pay off their son’s mistress, the latest twist in an unfolding scandal that has upended the political career of the one-time rising GOP star.
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On Thursday, Ensign’s attorney said that the senator’s parents gave Doug Hampton, Cynthia Hampton and their two children gifts
worth $96,000 in the form of a check. The attorney, Paul Coggins, said that each gift was limited to $12,000 and “complied with tax rules governing gifts.”
It is bad enough for someone who thinks he might want to be president to be stupid enough to have an affair with a staffer (because, we all know how well that always works out), but then to have one’s parents pay to fix the situation? Amazing–and neither presidential nor senatorial.
Also, Taegan Goddard had the perfect quip on Twitter/Facebook:
Spitzer has to be wondering why paying a “mistress” is somehow okay…
Indeed.
These things just keep getting weirder and weirder (although Sanford still wins the prize so far this year).
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